Plane
In art, a plane is a continuous flat surface – real or imagined.
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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.
George Condo – Rethinking reality
Condo coined two terms to describe his radical art style – artificial realism and psychological realism.
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.
Ai Weiwei: Decoded
A guide to the symbols at play in a divine self portrait by Ai Weiwei.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Avant Arte in Accra
A series of studio visits in the Ghanaian capital.
José Parlá: The Founders
Read a text written by José Parlá to accompany the timed release of our our latest collaboration, The Founders.
Slawn
Slawn was born in Lagos in 2000. He now lives and works in London.
Hikari Shimoda
Hikari Shimoda was born in 1984 in Nagano, Japan, where she continues to live and work.
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.
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.
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.
Deborah Segun
Deborah Segun (she/her) was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1994, where she continues to live and work.
A-Lei
YehHsin-Hong, known as A-Lei (he/him), was born in 1976 in Taiwan, where he continues to live and work.
Patrick Quarm
Patrick Quarm (he/him) was born in 1988 in Sekondi, Ghana, and now lives and works in Takoradi, Ghana.
LY
LY was born in in 1981 in Tokyo, Japan, where she continues to live and work.
Trudy Benson
Trudy Benson was born in 1985 in Richmond, Virginia, and now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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.
Frédéric Platéus
Frédéric Platéus was born in 1976 in Belgium and currently lives and works in Liège.
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.
Prismatic Head Composition
George Condo re-configures emotion with a portrait spanning multiple planes.Emblematic of Condo’s unique take on Cubism and figurative painting, Prismatic Head Composition establishes a paradoxical bond between the beautiful and unsightly. Visibly disconcerted, his figure grapples with familiar and alien feelings – all at once. Eyes sit lopsided on a contorted face above multiple sets of teeth, posing the question of how many personalities are at play within a singular subject.“My work finds a way to represent the human consciousness through portrait. That portrait could represent what’s not only the exterior appearance of that person but what’s going through their mind.”One of three limited edition prints launched in support of Dia Art Foundation, Condo’s painting has been meticulously translated into a 21 colour silkscreen in close collaboration with artisan printmakers at Make-Ready in London.
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.
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.
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.”
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.”
The Morning Light
Rich with symbolism, Arghavan Khosravi’s multilayered artworks draw upon personal experience to explore diasporic identity.During Covid-19 lockdown Khosravi began working with found objects, juxtaposing the flat plane of her canvases with intricate three-dimensional assemblage. Our debut collaboration explores this practice in edition form, combining an archival pigment print with a book, leather cord and air-brushed details. A motif found throughout the artist’s practice, in this case the vibrant red cord serves to steer the viewers eye and connect the artworks various layers and details.The work’s title nods to its seamless yellow gradients, and to the sense of quiet optimism emanating from it subject.International Women's Day
The Morning Light is the third in a series of 6 editions drawn together by Avant Arte Chief Curator Gemma Rolls-Bentley to coincide with International Women's Day. Read the journal.
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.