Plane

In art, a plane is a continuous flat surface – real or imagined.

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Sculpture

Children of this Planet #38

Hikari Shimoda unites fantasy and reality in a starry-eyed dichroic sculpture.With her art, Shimoda searches for a deeper understanding of our chaotic world. Anonymous subjects from her portrait series Children of this Planet cannot be defined by their skin colour or environment. Similarly, an edition of dichroic sculptures with a surface imitating vivid glass elude one specific form or colour.Emotion is held within the subject's sparkling eyes, while a pair of horns represent the fury and despair felt on Earth. Through its transparency, the work becomes a mirror of its viewer – allowing anyone to imagine themselves within it.

Children of this Planet #38
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George Condo – Rethinking reality

Condo coined two terms to describe his radical art style – artificial realism and psychological realism.

George Condo – Rethinking reality
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Meet the artists shaping the future of tarot

The humble yet powerful tarot card has inspired artists for centuries. Today, tarot is more popular than ever, so we take a look at its long history and the creatives celebrating it now. Along the way, we speak to two of our favourite artists and tarot creators, Claire Yurika Davis and Marcella Kroll.

Meet the artists shaping the future of tarot
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Ai Weiwei: Decoded

A guide to the symbols at play in a divine self portrait by Ai Weiwei.

Ai Weiwei: Decoded
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Norman Rosenthal on Anish Kapoor

Norman Rosenthal, guiding force behind the artist's first silkscreen print, reflects on his relationship with artworks by Anish Kapoor – shiny, dirty and sublime – since they first crossed paths in 1978.

Norman Rosenthal on Anish Kapoor
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What is silkscreen printing?

Kaius, a printmaker, takes a break from crafting exquisite editions at Make-Ready in London to guide us through the fundamentals and speculative future of screen printing and serigraphy.

What is silkscreen printing?
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The story behind the KIDS SEE GHOSTS album cover

How Takashi Murakami transformed his painting Manji-Fuji into the perfect album cover for Kid Cudi and Kanye West’s joint project, KIDS SEE GHOSTS.

The story behind the KIDS SEE GHOSTS album cover
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LY in Tokyo

Artist LY guides us through the places and spaces in Tokyo that have galvanised her practice - including some locations that are instantly recognisable in her latest works. Photography by Niko Wu.

LY in Tokyo
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David Rudnick & Tim Marlow

Meeting for the first time, graphic designer David Rudnick and Design Museum Director Tim Marlow discuss false dichotomies, paradigm shifts, 'junk layer' culture and the multifarious challenges and opportunities faced by artists and designers in a Web3 age.

David Rudnick & Tim Marlow
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Avant Arte in Accra

A series of studio visits in the Ghanaian capital.

Avant Arte in Accra
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José Parlá: The Founders

Read a text written by José Parlá to accompany the timed release of our our latest collaboration, The Founders.

José Parlá: The Founders
Artist

Slawn

Slawn was born in Lagos in 2000. He now lives and works in London. 

Slawn
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Hikari Shimoda

Hikari Shimoda was born in 1984 in Nagano, Japan, where she continues to live and work.

Hikari Shimoda
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Okokume

Okokume – a.k.a Laura Mas – was born in Mataró, Spain in 1985. She lives and works in Barcelona, where she shares a studio with her partner.

Okokume
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Sarah Morris

Sarah Morris was born in London, England in 1967, and raised in Rhode Island, USA. She’s now based in New York, working from her studio in Long Island City.

Sarah Morris
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Six N. Five

Six N. Five is the studio of Ezequiel Pini’s work, an award-winning Argentinian designer and digital artist based in Barcelona.

Six N. Five
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Deborah Segun

Deborah Segun (she/her) was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1994, where she continues to live and work.

Deborah Segun
Artist

A-Lei

YehHsin-Hong, known as A-Lei (he/him), was born in 1976 in Taiwan, where he continues to live and work.

A-Lei
Artist

Patrick Quarm

Patrick Quarm (he/him) was born in 1988 in Sekondi, Ghana, and now lives and works in Takoradi, Ghana.

Patrick Quarm
Artist

LY

LY was born in in 1981 in Tokyo, Japan, where she continues to live and work.

LY
Artist

Trudy Benson

Trudy Benson was born in 1985 in Richmond, Virginia, and now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Trudy Benson
Artist

Cali Thornhill Dewitt

Cali Thornhill DeWitt (real name Michael DeWitt) was born in 1973 on Vancouver Island, Canada, and now lives and works in Los Angeles, USA.

Cali Thornhill Dewitt
Artist

Frédéric Platéus

Frédéric Platéus was born in 1976 in Belgium and currently lives and works in Liège.

Frédéric Platéus
Print

Snow Lotus No. 1

Five years later, Cai Guo-Qiang returns with explosive reflections on love and resilience.The inspiration for Cai’s gunpowder paintings on glass and mirror came from childhood recollections of traditional Chinese mirror paintings. Each one traps an explosion of pigment between two fragile planes – a balancing act of control and chaos.Capturing the layered and illusory quality of the original artwork presented a new challenge for printmakers at Make-Ready in London. Snow Lotus No. 1 was disassembled for the first time since its creation and documented in two parts. This formed the basis of a layered printing process – allowing the traces of gunpowder left by each explosion, and their effect when combined, to be replicated perfectly.

Snow Lotus No. 1
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Shanghai Federation of Industry & Commerce Building

Cui Jie constructs a futuristic vision of China’s rapid urbanisation.The sun hangs low over Shanghai Federation of Industry & Commerce Building, drawing upon the artist’s experience of growing up in the city. Multiple perspectives collide on one plane, showing glitches of what lies beyond the building’s present facade. The silkscreen print synthesises an array of aesthetics – from Bauhaus and Soviet propaganda, to urban futurism. Using coloured pencil Cui adds hand-drawn birds to each print, her soft hued birds adorn the surface against the shiny metallics of the architecture.

Shanghai Federation of Industry & Commerce Building
Print

A Warm Garden

Danielle Orchard moves from dusk to dawn in a radiant vision of contemplation.In A Warm Garden, Orchard places a pensive female figure amidst nature – in a place where the sun sets and rises simultaneously. Painted in a warm palette awash with lucent yellow hues, the subject’s bare skin appears to glow in the layered sunlight. Complete with the angular features, separated into geometric planes, which define Orchard’s approach to portraiture, the woman wields a timeless demeanour that a viewer may expect to encounter in a classical painting or bust.

A Warm Garden
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Night in Paris - Golden Light

Yoon Hyup captures the magnetism of Paris with a deftly-composed array of lines and dots.Growing up, Yoon Hyup discovered the soul of global cities through music and skate culture. Comparing his process to playing jazz, he begins by exploring formation and harmonious colours. Once satisfied, he translates his vision to canvas with improvised gestures.Night in Paris - Golden Light is based upon memories from a pre-pandemic trip. The darkness of lockdown brought a new perspective to the dynamism he experienced. The print’s circular shape evokes a city seen through a peephole – or even an aeroplane window.“There is a certain kind of DNA to my city paintings. It’s not just a skyline with a touristic view.”

Night in Paris - Golden Light
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Visitor

In his first print edition, Clayton Schiff’s Visitor looks out from the shadows of a toilet paper shelter.Set in a domestic space loosely resembling his parent’s bathroom, Visitor stems from Schiff’s childhood paranoia of lurking figures behind opaque objects. The half-obscured gaze of the lonely creature reaches out of the picture plane, as Schiff foregrounds the dynamic between observer and observed. The situation echoes a surprise encounter with a household rodent or pest.“The character doesn’t exactly belong in this setting, but presumes that the viewer regards them more with bemusement than hostility.”

Visitor
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Green Master / Bloom

Directed by environmental research, Yuichi Hirako calls out the danger imposed on the planet by humans. A new, fantastical scene centres on his mythological hybrid character – Tree Man. Painted in full bloom with signature antlers, Tree Man portrays humans' symbiotic relationship with nature. He is rarely seen without a feline companion, who acts as a segway between the natural world and human society. The print translates the artist's swirling brushstrokes and chalk marks that light up the night sky behind.

Green Master / Bloom

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