The 77th Volume of Hi-Fructose is here.
The New
Contemporary
Art Magazine
Hi-Fructose is a quarterly print art magazine founded by artists Attaboy and Annie Owens in 2005. Hi-Fructose focuses squarely on the art which transcends genre and trend, assuring readers thorough coverage and content that is informative and original. Hi-Fructose showcases an amalgamation of new contemporary, emerging as well distinguished artists, with a spotlight on awe inspiring spectacles from round the world.
“The artists I admire most are actually those of the first and second Renaissance generation: Donatello, Masaccio, Piero della Francesca,” Lorenzo Tonda says. “At the same time … I feel they belong to an extremely balanced world that I find difficult to reach—and which, perhaps at the moment, I cannot fully inhabit.”
It is this reverence for the classical past, coupled with human resilience in times of relentless turbulence, that drives the work of Lorenzo Tonda. Like choreographed games of Twister, his figures reach and sprawl across the canvas, limbs splayed and torsos arched, caught in precarious moments. His use of light and color are less about replicating reality than about amplifying the emotional and psychological resonance of each surreal scene.
Read the full article on @tondalorenzo in print in the latest issue of Hi-Fructose.
Amidst Super Bowl weekend, a large collection of hand painted movie posters by Ghanaian artists made its way to San Francisco. Curated by @deadlypreygallery each poster was an extreme interpretation of its subject matter; Free Willy was a blood thirsty menace, Macaulay Cullkin appears in two time lines at once while Giger’s Alien finds its way into Groundhog Day? Yes, all bets are off. @harmanprojects was covered from floor to ceiling to tables with hundreds of these infamous posters which originally promoted bootlegged VHS video showings but have now become sought after commissions from dozens of artists.
Nine years ago, Hi-Fructose published an in depth article on the posters and history with interviews with key artists and curators. We will put some sort of link to that in the comments if your curiosity has been awakened.
Made out of the redacted parts.
By Odesso.
@odessoart
#files #digitalart #collage #artprocess
Prepare your eye holes for a visual assault from performance artist/human sculpture David Henry Nobody JR (full article by Liz Ohanesian now on Hi-Fructose)
The internet is a strange place where… you’re talking through a machine and you’re projecting whatever you want,” he says. In a way, that’s part of Brown’s work too. “We’ve been projecting for a long time. We project ourselves onto celebrities. Most celebrities are the most boring people, but it’s the viewer, it’s the fantastic nobody, all of us losers, that makes them seem interesting.”
But, it’s not always bad attention online and, some of the feedback becomes part of Brown’s process. He acknowledges that he doesn’t always see the full meaning of an image right after he posts it. “The audience helps me see it,” he says. “I watch the response and I learn how the image is communicating. What is it communicating to people? You can kind of gauge it through the comments sometimes.”
In the end, though, Instagram has been a strangely wonderful medium for Brown to explore. It gave him a way to express himself while still being a bit of an outsider in the art world. “On social media, you don’t have to be an art world hot shot,” he says. “If you make creative stuff, people are going to notice and I think that democratization of creativity for the public and bringing it directly to the public has always been super important to me.”
Brown doesn’t shun the gallery world. He shows his work IRL and would like to continue doing so, but he’s flexible about how he shows his work. “I go with the flow he says. “Right now, Instagram is the most creative venue there is.”*
@davidhenrynobodyjr
Image 1,7,8 taken by @jazzaddikt
Bus stop poster reclamation animation by
A. L. Crego.
@alcrego_
09/2018
Will totally resist using a maze-pun describing this intricate drawing by Ben Sack.
@ibensack
From @bbcscotnews Glasgow’s famous Duke of Wellington statue has taken on a new look - after a street artist added an extra sculpture on top of it.
The statue outside the city’s Gallery of Modern Art typically has a traffic cone perched on its head - a tradition believed to date back to at least the 1980s.
However on Monday a second model, showing a pigeon reading a newspaper with a small traffic cone atop its head, was added.
The addition is the work of street artist the Rebel Bear. @the.rebel.bear
Let’s take a trip to a cemetery filled with head stone carvings that are sculpted by its own inhabitants.
Courtesy of author and travelogue creator J.W. Ocker. @jwocker
