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Alexander Jansson - Surreal Circus with Punk influences

In the work of Gothenburg, Sweden-based artist Alexander Jansson, we can observe the influence of a diversity of genres as distant as literature, cinema or painting itself.


Occasional animator (I recommend watching The Curious Kind by clicking HERE), and aesthetically reminiscent of Tim Burton. Like this short animated film, his digital work shows certain parallels.


These works are characterized by being characterized by misplaced and somewhat disconcerting beings. However, they gather the skills to finally end up finding each other, coinciding in space time in similar places.

In nebulous universes, in which after overcoming a thousand avatars they manage to feel comfortable in the presence of others. Who are sometimes visible and sometimes not, weaving their own destiny with dreams. 


The carnivalesque elements that he frequently employs, contribute to create a circus atmosphere, in which the range of taciturn and bohemian colors contribute to create compositions through which he conveys a sensation of intensity. Hypnotizing the observer, who is seduced and invited to explore each work in detail. 



Although he is mainly known for his commissions for covers and illustration of special editions. Works that over time he has also created his own creative identity as well as his own style that he called Greenpunk. 



The one that consists of applying a mixed technique formed by a collage to which he incorporates elements of his photos, models, drawings and paintings that he mixes in the same illustration. Almost handmade works with which she achieves digital images that stand out for being very natural, works that require a considerable investment of time. Completing them by adding scratches, dust and brushstrokes with which he enhances their formal finish in plastic terms.


READ IT IN SPANISH: Alexander Jansson - Circo surrealista con influencias Punk


Founder of his own studio called Sleeping House. Among his many works, the illustration of an anthology of works by Robert L. Stevenson, or the new edition of Anne E. Book of a biographical volume on the life of JRR Tolkien.

Basia Irland - Ice Receding/Books, frozen books with seeds against climate change

 

Throughout the history of mankind, seeds have been preserved in a natural way according to seasonal cycles. In cold periods the seeds were frozen. Germinating in their natural habitats when climatic conditions became warmer.


Using a language that combines lyrical, ethnic and scientific elements, the artist Basia Irland creates in 2009 the Ice Receding/Books project. For this project he was inspired by the observations and documentation provided by members of the Nisqually tribe.


Whose communities live on reservations in the U.S. state of Washington, and the natural processes from which they obtained their seed stocks. These seeds were then used in their crops.   

Using ice books to fossilize the seeds, made with large blocks of ice, which are extracted from the plates that are formed in the riverbed where members of the native community usually fish.


READ IT IN SPANISH: Basia Irland - Ice Receding/Books, libros congelados con semillas contra el cambio climatico


And where thousands of seeds are deposited after being trapped in the ice, just carve the ice giving it the shape of books. In whose frozen interior have been embedded variants of seeds of local species. These are finally distributed in different points of the forest, melting due to the exposure to the sun's rays, and releasing the seeds that will spread in their area of influence, germinating.


That first experience has been replicated in other parts of the world such as Spain, Mexico, England or Iran. Through the use of collective tools, teams formed by biologists, artists, botanists, as well as local farming communities, intervene on the territory using natural methods.


Ice Receding/Books is a multicultural proposal that reflects on how human intervention impacts the environment. And how their active presence has modified the methods of germination. 


Altering the landscape on which it acts having as main consequence climate change, and the deterioration of unique habitats. That unfortunately go from being in danger of extinction to disappear for good.



Creative Machines - Heart Beacon, a huge heart allows you to know your health status in an immersive way.

 

Installed at the entrance of the Emergency Coordination Center of the American city of Portland. The presence of the Heart Beacon has no medical function.


However, the users of the hospital grounds approach this huge reproduction of the main human muscle. They are attracted by the desire to know what their heart rate sounds like or what color it lights up when they take their pulse.


The installation, which has a strong playful component, has been created by the Creative Machines studio. It is an interactive proposal where through a system composed of diodes and sound effects.

The vital signs recorded by the sensors attached to its structure are reproduced. Conceived as a ludic artifact, the data collected are translated into a unique pattern linked to the vital signs of each subject that approaches this huge heart.


Composed of two candles covered with acrylic panels, the Heart Beacon's interior houses an encapsulated warhead that functions as an autonomous and immersive platform.


READ IT IN SPANISH: Creative Machines - Heart Beacon, un enorme corazón permite conocer tu estado de salud de forma inmersiva 


From which to convey a message of hope to the inhabitants of the city of Portland. Elaborated with the contribution made by the members of the community. Heart Beacon is a collective experience that combines art and active participation, using an accessible and playful language.


Jeremy Deller - Sacrilege, the megalithic monument of Stonehenge as you have never seen it beforehand

 

After months of hard work in his studio, the artist Jeremy Deller has finally archieved to complete his announced reproduction of one of the monuments or relics of the ancient world, such as the set of dolmens that form the archaeological site of Stonehenge. 


Although as he himself confesses when he had the opportunity to visit it in a casual excursion, he did not harbor many expectations about it. This lack of enthusiasm regarding the contemplation of these ancient stones.


Perhaps it had to do with the fact that he had seen so many of them through the eyes of others that it did not cause him excessive motivation. Perception that changed radically when he had it and could become aware of its historical transcendence.

Entitled Sacrileg, it is a commission for the  2012, lying on the Glasgow Green. The full-scale representation of one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.


It is an interactive outdoor installation, an inflatable toy for visitors to interact with through a creative formula. The instantly recognizable shape is created from an inflated plastic design. 


READ IT IN ENGLISH: Jeremy Deller -  Sacrilege, el monumento megalítico de Stonehenge como nunca lo habías visto


Employing the same technique as with the popular children's attractions. Imposing gray pillars and arches perfectly mimic every detail of the original monument. Creating the sensation that you have been transported back in time.


Artist Guy Laramee recycles books to become landscapes.

Books as creative material, apart from the narrative format we attribute to them as readers, can offer endless creative and plastic expressions, adopting in this way another narrative role. 


Resulting in many and varied ways of representing the same reality, the photographer and artist Guy Laramee, is an expert in capturing the essence of the landscapes he has the opportunity to visit. 

After photographing them, he locks himself in his studio and creates these surreal reproductions. The natural and architectural landscapes represented in these models belong to the Biblios and The Great Wall series. 


READ IT IN SPANISH: El artista Guy Laramee recicla libros convirtiéndolo en paisajes


They are sculptural works that reproduce landscapes carved in old books, in which no detail is missing. Revealing serene mountains, plateaus and architectural structures, which are integrated into these natural environments without altering them. 


Caras Lonut - Surreal nature inspired by Poe

 

In many of the works of digital photographer Caras Lonut two constants are observed, on the one hand we see nature represented by different species, sometimes following a crude and stark pattern.


Wild animals that are treated as pets, almost always accompanied by children, in a journey where the dreamlike atmospheres describe a magical universe. In which nature is always omnipresent.


The other is his peculiar treatment of color, a nuance that he undoubtedly achieves thanks to the application of a variety of filters. With which he treats each image after the editing he does with photoshop (of which he is a consummate expert). 



With which he achieves that the final composition of each piece has such a tenuous effect that evokes autumn afternoons that transmit serenity and invite to meditation. And that can remind us of some of the passages of Edgar Alan Poe's stories.


His imagination and his work are captivated by dreams and by the autumn and winter seasons, through which he analyzes the darker side of a subject's desires and dreams.


Born in Romania in February 1970, Caras alternates his professional career, in which he has done commissions for numerous publications. With his love for digital photography.


READ IT IN SPANISH: Caras Lonut - Naturaleza surrealista inspirada por Poe   


In these environments he has used a language where surrealism shares space and discourse with elements taken from the natural universe. Representing landscapes in which the nostalgia for a childhood that will no longer return, is blurred between strokes inspired by the memory of the dream and its traces imprinted in the subconscious.


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