Fernando Vicente

Spanish painter and illustrator Fernando Vincento Sanchéz has won three Awards Of Excellence from the Society for News Design. Posters of mechanical bits and pieces turned into this series "Anatomies".

Cedric Arnold

Cedric Arnold is French- British photographer. He Lives and works in Bangkok Thailand.

It Took him over four years to create "Sacred Ink". He got friendly with Tattoo masters, which enabled him to witness sacred ceremonies that are part of the tattooing process. Cedric Arnold used Large format and polaroid film for his black and white work.

 Thai sacred tattoos are applied during special ceremonies by monks and tattoo masters with knowledge of ancient South East Asian script.

"For centuries, Thai men have covered their bodies with protective tattoos. Old temple murals show epic scenes of swords breaking apart when hitting a tattoed soldier's skin. The tradition has been handed down generations of both monks and laymen who create the tattoes and empower them with special prayers"; C. Arnold

Lucy McRea

STRADDLING THE WORLDS OF FASHION, TECHNOLOGY AND THE BODY.

Lucy McRea is Australian, architect and trained classical ballerina, but above all fascinated by the human body. How it is built and how it can be re-shaped by technology. She explores the relationship between both, body and technology, in her self acclaimed role as a body - architect.

“I became obsessed with this idea of blurring the perimeter of the body, so you couldn't see where the skin ended and the near environment started.”: Lucy McRea.

Sarah Moon

Fashion and colorful pictures of French Sarah Moon. Started out as a model , turned into a fashion photographer before turning her attention to Art work (photography and film). Erotically suggestive, mysterious and sensual dreamlike creations are the core of her work. The models becoming merely an element of composition, intentionally blurred and transformed. Moon's work is unique and has a strong graphic base.

Sarah Moon at daad-uncensored?

Karina Smigla-Bobinski

"ADA" analog interactive installation - kinetic sculpture - post-digital drawing machine

 

ADA is an esthetical complex and interactive art-making machine by Karina Smigla-Bobinski. A helium filled floating globe using a complete room as its canvas. As the visitor is challenged to control the charcoal spiked globe creates random patterns and lines all over the room.

Arnd Wesemann writes:

"«ADA» uprose in nowadays spirit of biotechnology. She is a vital performance-machine, and her paterns of lines and points, get more and more complex as the number of the audience playing-in encreases. Leaving traces which neither the artist nor visitors are able to decipher, not to mention «ADA» herself either. And still, «ADA's» work is unmistakable potentially humane, because the only available decoding method for these signs and drawings , is the association which our brain corresponds at the most when it sleeps: the truculent jazziness of our dreams."

 

Andrew Polushkin

A multimedia project by Photographer/artist Andrew Polushkin, music by David Lynch. More on A. Polushkin on DaaD Uncensored.




Silver gelatine prints from the series; Things' dream.

Yves Medam

French born photographer Yves Medam forms large scale cubist like images. Through what looks like multi layered collages he recreates places and cities, adding a strange but enjoyable ambiance. Yves Medam distorts time and space, people cross paths except they were never in the same place at the same time. A fictional reality in existing surroundings.
In his own words, he is not a stranger to Hockney's polaroids.
These are from the 'Paris' portfolio.

 

John Grade

 Seattle-based artist John Grade is the creator of sculptural installations. His work has a cultural and environmental feel to it. Combining natural products with space-age materials, his sculpture are not designed to last. Weathering and eroding is as fascinating as the he process of creation.

  

John Grade's Capacitor.

John Grade:"My choice to build things that incorporate environmental changes, in all honesty, is an elaborate excuse to spend time in those environments. I like climbing as much as I do sculpture."

Circuit

 

Elephants bed

 Meridian

"This idea that people shouldn't touch sculptureis preposterous. I would hate to make something that nobody was allowed to touch." John Grade.

Seeps of winter

Wawona primary interior view

Chuck Close

Chuck Close is probably one of the most influential figurative painters of our time. Born in 1940 in Monroe, Washington. He has been experimenting with different kinds of painting, printing and photography. Mostly working from photographs to create his large scale canvasses. Showing here are some of his self-portraits.

Chuck Close: A portrait in progress. A must see video.And Chuck Close working the daguerreotype process here.
 

Tom Colbie

"SHOTS FROM A PARALLEL DIMENSION ❚❚❚❚❚❙❙❙❙❙❘❘❘❘❘"  Grainy digital fantasies by Tom Colbie in a parallel universe or is it astronauts' time travelling? Anything goes in his world. Reality reinvented started from photographic resources. Watch and enjoy!

and one in honour of Storm Thorgerson

You can see 'paradox' on vimeo