Ernest Zacharevic

Ernest Zacharevic's outdoor street art illusions are just wonderful. In combining his paintwork with real life objects and incorporating it into existing surrounding he brings a smile to your face. This Lithuanian artist signs his lighthearted work with "ZACH". It isn't your standard wall graffiti, and by using 3D objects he creates real depth to his work.

Kimio Tsuchiya

Kimio Tsuchiya is a renowned Japanese sculptor. Using a wide variety of discarded materials he creates a sense of remembrance, rebird from a previous existence. 

A comment by Kimio Tsuchiya on the above work: "We modern people have lost the secrets of wisdom….to feel earth’s magnetic pull, and how we are united under its power. And the certainty of how that then is moved by the stars. I want to once again realize the reality of truth our ancestors knew through instinct."

JR

NOT A BUG SPLAT

In military slang, Predator drone operators often refer to kills as ‘bug splats’, since viewing the body through a grainy video image gives the sense of an insect being crushed. This giant art installation targets predator drone operators, find out more about this project here.

French artist JR fly-posts big black and white images in public spaces, trying to create awareness of local and world problems. He described himself as a photographer. He started out as a graffiti artist not really interested in changing the world. At age 17 he started using large photocopies of his photographic work, applying it on rooftops and outdoor walls, saying: : "In the street, we reach people who never go to museums."

Women Are Heroes. Action in Kibera Slum, General View, Kenya, 2009

Face2Face. Holy Tryptich, 2006

Face2Face. Separation Wall. Palestinian Side In Bethlehem, March 2007

Shinichi Maruyama

Gardens by Shinichi Maruyama. Turning liquid sculptures into a Zen garden using strobe light technology and high-speed photography to capture paint in motion. The graceful motion and the soft tonality of the tempura paint are key to the emotions Shinichi Maruyama wants to display. Maruyama was born in Nagano, Japan.
Maruyama about the "gardens" series; "I have tried to represent this feeling I get from Zen gardens in my artwork. Although I am still far from those enlightened monks who labor in nature, my actions of repeatedly throwing liquid into the air and photographing the resulting shapes and sculptural formations over and over-endlessly-could be considered a form of spiritual practice to find personal enlightenment."

Shinichi Maruyama at work

Yang Yi

Personally affected by the Three Gorges Dam project in China, Yang Yi payed homage to his hometown in a series of beautiful digitally manipulated images. Together with other villages, farmland and historical sides his village was claimed by the waters of the Yangtze river. He captured the remainders of his childhood home grounds before it got submerged in the 400 miles long reservoir of the  three gorges dam. Yang Yi; "I don’t intend to dwell on the meaning to be found in my photography. What is important for me is that I came from that town. It is about all that we have in common there: our accent, our spicy coriander, the nod we give each other, a friendly signal to say hello when we pass one another on the street, these streets that we have traveled alongside our ancestors, that have herded us along together… this series was created for all of that. It will be my 
personal memoir!"
Born in Kaixian, Chongqing in 1971.