So if you happen to visit the Frieze by Underground you will pass her works in the tunnels!

Commissioned by Art Below, this October Eleanor Lindsay-Fynn has taken over the advertising space on Platform 1 of the Bakerloo Line in Regent’s Park Tube to showcase provocative images from her ‘Yellow Face’ project during Frieze Art Fair.

Says Ben Moore of Art Below:

‘We are really excited to work with Eleanor on this project, no one will understand her work more than Frieze goers and if they don’t understand it on their way to Frieze they will definitely understand it on their way back!’

The exhibition will run till the end of October and is backed by Crunch Art Festival and Quintessentially.

For a full set of images click HERE

Do I Really want to be in the World? The ‘Yellow Face’ project turns the view of the art world onto itself and, more specifically, people at Frieze. Inhabiting the images are the instantly recognisable members of the London art world – in one image we see Richard Wentworth, Matthew Collings, Louisa Buck, Sir Norman Rosenthal, Jasper Joffe, and Matthew Slotover (Co-Founder of Frieze) speaking at the debate Art Fairs are about Money not Art, in the Saatchi Gallery. Do I Really want to be in this World? These figures have been painted ‘yellow-faced’ by Eleanor, adding something she feels is missing from a standard photograph. The ‘yellow face’ captures a kind of alienation we all feel at places like art fairs: a sense of just how odd cultural events are. This is not a wake-up call. Rather, ‘Yellow Face’ demonstrates the autopilot we switch on in order to cope with the huge quantity of information forced onto us.

 

 

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We have gathered together the highlights for last year in a fancy 3d flash animation, with direct links to the supporting artist’s work on artition.
Do have a look on: www.huhnt.com

Portrait Craig Semetko from Adenauer Film on Vimeo.

Artition: How would you describe your work/art/style?

XRDM: My work is almost always representational. I work from the three dimensional form, which means I try not to use photographs. It is hard, especially with commissions and portraits, but ideally I work from life. In my work I try to portray the subject exactly as I see it, without exaggerating and romanticizing. I think there is a beauty in observing reality, rather than interpreting and changing it somehow. In my still-life compositions I usually do have a narrative in mind, and a concept or message that I try to communicate through inanimate objects. In Reaching, for instance, I used objects that are commercially manufactures, but trying to imitate humanity in their appearance. The idea is that they are reaching up to something that they aspire to be, which literally, is humanity; I would like to think that my drawings could be interpreted allegorically for many situations other than the literal situation portrayed in the piece.

“Monochrome-Self”

Artition: What or who inspires you?

XRDM: In terms of my technique Baroque, and Neo-Classical painters most often inspire me. Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Jacques-Louis David, and Ingres are really big inspirations. I also love Käthe Kollwitz, Paul Cadmus, and James Ensor. The reason many of my compositions are square is mostly because of my admiration for Andy Warhol’s ideology of Pop being a universal art, which is something I try to recreate. I am very much inspired by Walt Disney, Andy Warhol, and Lady Gaga, not so much for the content of their work, but because I am absolutely obsessed with The Factory environment and try to recreate that for myself. Thus, I have to mention, that I surround myself purposely with people I admire greatly, which varies from Fashion designers to Musicians. Alexander McQueen’s show, Plato’s Atlantis, absolutely blew me away and the way the show incorporated the fashion, with the make-up and hair, and the music, and the stage and production design was phenomenal and one of the most inspiring things I’ve ever seen. Similarly, Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle is something I really love for the same reason. Ultimately, I’d like to work in a way in which I could incorporate all types of art, because everything inspires me. Recently I designed and executed a drawing for the band AmPm, which I was really excited about because I felt I was somehow recreating Andy Warhol’s collaboration with The Velvet Underground. I am inspired by a very wide variety of things. Music seems to inspire me the most and I have many drawings that are directly based on contemporary music. Musicians like Fever Ray, Björk, Kraftwerk, David Bowie, The Beatles, and many other musicians often inspire me to create and often determine the subjects of my drawings. One thing that people tend to overlook, and I feel I need to make more obvious, is the inspiration and content of my art, which more often than not, is Pop. Films really inspire me as well; most notably the work of David Lynch, Michael Haneke, and Stanley Kubrick.

Artition: Is there a message you want to communicate with your art?

XRDM: I’ve probably answered that already. Yes, there’s always a message I try to communicate in my art. In my portraits and figure drawings I usually just try to show reality. And although I do think that in a very subtle way, light can have meaning and be metaphorical, I usually try to create a more calculated message with my still-life pieces because it is more accessible or more obvious to interpret subjects rather than light. It is imperative to me, that there be a message, and I try in my still-life compositions to make that as apparent as possible. For instance for Venus, my main inspirations were Paul Cadmus, and Jean Paul Gaultier’s collaboration with Madonna during the Blonde Ambition period. Paul Cadmus is one of the most fascinating painters to me, and I am particularly fascinated with his marks and the way he describes form. Jean Paul Gaultier’s pieces, I realized, have a similar aesthetic in terms of how his corsets shape the Female figure. Ultimately, the piece took a life of its own and I think it represents the ambiguity of iconography and how a Venus figure can elude both to Antiquity as well as Madonna.
In Eye of David, cash inspired me. I examined the dollar and decided to juxtapose the Eye of David with a feather, which subject-wise was inspired by the back of a one-dollar bill, where the Pyramid is shown below the all-seeing eye, and the Eagle on the other side of the word One. Of course the story of David provokes a world of interpretations and symbolism as well.

“Taylor”

Artition: How do you like artition and what would you like to be added or changed?

XRDM: I honestly really like Artition as it is and the community seems immensely talented. One thing I had trouble with was creating different galleries. I would like to keep my sketches in a separate gallery from my finished pieces, and never quite figured out how to do that.

Artition: Who would you like to change life with for one day?

XRDM: If I could choose anyone from the past or the present I would definitely choose Napoleon Bonaparte. I think the way he formed his image through art and iconography, and collaborated with painters with political objectives is absolutely brilliant. But if I had to choose a contemporary figure I would have to say Lady Gaga, because she’s the most famous.

Artition: Who is your favorite artist?

XRDM: I really don’t have a favorite artist. It depends on my mood, on what I’m working on, and on the medium I am most fascinated with at the time. In terms of painting, I would probably narrow it down to Jacques-Louis David, Rembrandt, and Caravaggio. My favorite musician right now is Kraftwerk, but two weeks ago was Bjork, and before that was The Beatles. I also started listening to a band called Best Coast who I really like a lot. I have been fascinated with David Lynch for quite some time and am tempted to call him my favorite director.

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“Reaching”

The young and extraordinary talent Niclas Winters creates work that is powerful both in texture as well as composition. While you feel rawness in his pieces the progress in his development of different skills and techniques is tremendous and continually increasing. His brand-mark might be the chimpanzee mainly throughout his drawings, which would metaphor his recent artistic status quite well: playful but very clever!

Artition:
How would you describe your work/art/style?

NW:
My art is an illustration and comment on my surrounding and state of mind. I am bringing my urban environment mixed with my personal comment on the canvas. In various ways I am reflecting my personality and using different characters to represent these factors.

Artition:
What or who inspires you?

NW:
Everyday life inspires me, the street art scene and various artists such as Shepard Fairey (Obey), Takashi Murakami, Sam Flores etc. Everything is an inspiration if you make something out of it.

Artition:
Is there a message you want to communicate with your art?

NW:
The messages I am trying to make are conflicts in my surrounding and possibly of various other people. Stating the ovious in different forms and styles.

Artition:
How do you like artition and what would you like to be added or changed?

NW:
Artition is a great medium of displaying your art and bringing it out to the people. It is also great to have the possibility to communicate with other artists and view their art works, their styles, their stories.

Artition:
Who is your favourite artist?

NW:
Most inspirational artists which influenced my art a lot are Takashi Murakami, Banksy and Shepard Fairey although various other artists impress me with their work and help me find my own way in my art.

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Moses Foster is an artist with complex abilities. His use of colour is very elaborate and he has a certain ‘swing’ in his pieces, creating great patterns, as well as figures and shapes. I guess some of his works with white background look great in real. Read more in my interview with him:

Artition:
How would you describe your work/art/style?

MF:
I´ve been asked this question quite often… at bars, gallery openings, occassional interests from people who meet me on the street…. I´ve come to a conclusion… I don´t worry about the style… I just create and continue creating from the source which is my daily life.

Artition:
What or who inspires you?

MF:
Touch and go…. that´s the type of question this is….
Inspiration for me is also very personal. I´ve been painting since I was 5 years old… long before I beheld the massive paintings of Caravaggio and Reubens in various international museums. Light and shadow inspires me…. How do I portray light and shadow without giving away too much. The subject matter varies….color in my opinion are like piano keys…and I´m still the 5 year old… Playing with the fire of construction in the face of all the hot heads of the university whom I sum up as Nay sayers….

Rebellion inspires me… The fight to get it down on canvas in which ever medium suits the subject.

Artition:
Is there a message you want to communicate with your art?

MF:
Lately my work is moving at such a rate until I´m not so sure how to answer this question. I try to title the single pieces but sometimes I´m stuck with the mental connection I have with the works… I don´t want to trap my ideas with names or zealous titles anymore… I´ve had enough of trying to communicate on terms of public awareness. I´m making the work…. I´ll let it do the job of communicating with whom it desires. I say this because most times… I get the feeling that when people check out a painting…. they either want more than what´s physically there…or they´re projecting their own fantasies… All fine by me… but I think the only people who really understand the language of babies are mothers. It´s not until the child is at a certain age that it´s able to reach out and take account of its own existence. Translate that to painting and other creative functions !!

Artition:
How do you like artition and what would you like to be added or changed?

MF:
I woke up this morning and found this interview in my inbox….
I like that. I´ve been so busy and wanted to put it to the side…but I decided.. it´s for my future that I sit here and answer these questions as best I can…

Artition:
Who would you like to change life with for one day?

MF:
I would never consider this.

Artition:
Who is your favourite artist?

MF:
Nature

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His most recent project is showing US military vehicles such as tanks, fighters or submarines that are invading Paris.

Leo Caillard / New Artwork : ” War Games “

Photography and 3D / Diasec 48×72 inches / Limited edition of 6.

Vladimir Hristov joint us recently and instantly caught our attention with his provocative works, that are in the same way so harmoniously and illustrative. The compositions, the colors and his attempt to create abstract atmosphere will define him as an expressionist, such as Macke or Chagall; but by modern influences in beauty as well as bloodiness he defines himself as a contemporary expressionist, absorbing our daily nature into an aesthetic matter.

Artition:
How would you describe your work/art/style?

VH:
Mix of traditional methods with contemporary and modern way of painting. On a contrary of being afraid of heaving different styles in one painting, I love having all those diametrically contrasted genres mixed up in one piece. What really matters is which emotion and/or which visual impression the work evokes in the viewers minds.

Artition:
What or who inspires you?

VH:
Mix of: Botticelli and Kandinsky with Nick Cave & Sonic Youth, that might be about where I want to go…
Starting with Byzantine and Renaissance art, going forward through: Klimt & Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka and Chagall, plus Russian Avantgarde & Pop Art altogether with music & PoP Culture. There are many sources from where I feed my inspiration.

Artition:
Is there a message you want to communicate with your art?

VH:
Sex & religion… death, love, hope, fear, serial killers & guns, gods and angels… are, among others, the objectives that I am fascinated with. My paintings are not made in representational manner. Instead of putting up one image that represents this or that specific matter I prefer to play with the uncertainty of the forms and the transformations of one shape into another, and the free associations that they might bring up. I try to put all this together in a way that whenever the viewer pays some attention to the painting, he/she will always have some new feelings and new things to discover.
I intent to leave the painting “open” enough for ones perception and translation of its message.

Artition:
How do you like artition and what would you like to be added or changed?

VH:
Since I am new member of artition I am still discovering what this site is offering and until now I am delighted with it’s content.

Artition:
Who would you like to change life with for one day?

VH:
Well this is the far most difficult question to answer… first thing that comes to my mind is to have the chance of being The Art Agent of some most successful artist today and discover the art of Hristov, or just being Silvio Berlusconi for a day and have all the fun…

Artition:
Who is your favourite artist?

VH:
I am hugely impressed with Christian Boltanski lately, I love his work.

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