Highlights From Venice Art Biennale 2019: Part 01.The 58th International Art Event La Biennale di Venezia is titled “May You Live In Interesting Times”, exploring the role of art in prompting dialogue around the current zeitgeist, with works curated by Ralph Rugoff. For the 58th...
Martin Jonsson’s Surreal & Enigmatic Oil Paintings.Stockholm-born Åkersberga-based artist Martin Jonsson has taken a nebulous theme and applied it to his subjects, putting a whole new spin on having your head in the clouds. Cumulus engulfs his solitary subjects, their puffy, cotton-like...
Tongue-In-Cheek Oil Paintings by Milan-Based Artist Aldo Sergio.Aldo Sergio's works at first appear reminiscent of a classical approach to portrait painting and still life. But on closer inspection, his images are not a simplistic interpretation of real life at all. And that’s precisely what makes...
Interview: Sydney Artist Ben Smith.In his work, Sydney artist Ben Smith seeks to unify a series of complex and opposing qualities - the beautiful and the unsettling, the humorous and the sincere, the banal and the uncanny. Above all, an element of visual wit prevails in his...
Fictitious Realism by Sydney Artist Jonathan Dalton.Sydney-based artist Jonathan Dalton's works are dominated by dark, tinted scenes that hint at an unfolding and curious story that the viewer has to imagine from the characters and their ambiguous surroundings. Dalton is obsessive about...
Marble Park by Melbourne Artist Sean Meilak.In his current solo exhibition titled 'Marble Park', on show at Melbourne's Niagara Gallery until February 25th, Sean Meilak has created a richly layered body of work that explores the mystery and meaning of objects through painting,...
Illustrator & Graphic Artist Klas Ernflo.Klas Ernflo's illustrations are full of fine and sophisticated details. His latest work takes the form of simple, methodical figures on boards resembling modern-day hieroglyphics. These abstract forms focus on the human and the...
Sensual Portraits by Malcolm T. Liepke.Malcolm T. Leipke is a largely self-taught artist who paints in a style that echoes the work of the greats such as Whistler, Sargent, Degas and Lautrec, to create portraits that are both visually familiar and wholly unique. Liepke...
Arresting Hyperrealistic Portraits by Mike Dargas.German artist Mike Dargas creates extraordinarily realistic seductive portraits that could easily be mistaken for photographs. Many of his work create an unforgettable impact as they measure over two metres in height. Featuring...
