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Michael Najjar echoes Caspar David Friedrich

Michael Najjar echoes Caspar David Friedrich

The Sea of Ice by Caspar David Friedrich inspired Michael Najjar for this installation and ikonoTV produced this video to put them side by side. Michael Najjar is a German artist, in his artwork he takes a complex critical look at the technological forces shaping and drastically transforming the early 21st century.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Lift Teri Bandh Hai Full Song - Judwaa 2 -

Lift Teri Bandh Hai Full Song - Judwaa 2 -

Lift Teri Bandh Hai Full Song - Judwaa 2 - Varun - Jacqueline - Taapsee - David Dhawan - Anu Malik.mp4

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Bingyi’s Madness and Magic

Bingyi’s Madness and Magic

Bingyi’s ink works plumb extremes of scale, from minutely brushed fan-sized paintings, to works boldly splashed across paper-covered stretches of a mountain road. Executed in ever-changing boldly idiosyncratic styles, her works show a sensitivity for nature and for social conditions.

Duration : 13m
Maturity Level : all

Chen Haiyan’s Dreams

Chen Haiyan’s Dreams

Whether paintings or woodcuts, style and medium fuse seamlessly in the expression of Chen Haiyan’s subject matter. This consists of narratives from her dream diaries illustrated with an unparalleled emotional directness, fusing traditional elite aesthetics with a robust vernacular quality.

Duration : 18m
Maturity Level : all

Li Huasheng’s Ambivalence

Li Huasheng’s Ambivalence

In 1989 Li Huasheng turned from the distinctive style of landscape painting for which he was widely known, to the creation of pure abstractions. Producing grids of meticulously inscribed lines that record the passage of time, his new mode of creativity emphasizes process rather than finished work.

Duration : 9m
Maturity Level : all

Li Jin’s Feast

Li Jin’s Feast

Li Jin’s idiosyncratic painting manner is founded in superlative brushwork, and based in a key tenet of Chinese painting: in rendering a subject, such as a dish of food or quirky figure, accuracy depends on close observation and understanding, not a direct copying of the subject’s outer likeness.

Duration : 11m
Maturity Level : all

Liu Dan’s Perfection

Liu Dan’s Perfection

Liu Dan’s paintings of rocks and landscapes reflect an accord with early, more basic or ’’pure’’ eras of artistic expression in both East and West, and express a personal understanding of natural forces whereby the macrocosm is fully expressed through reduplication of the microcosmic.

Duration : 14m
Maturity Level : all

Master Cui’s Riddle

Master Cui’s Riddle

Cui Zhenkuan belongs to an older generation of ink painters who received rigorous traditional training. Innovating within that tradition, he has produced a powerful body of landscapes relevant to the present.

Duration : 10m
Maturity Level : all

Wang Dongling’s Lines of Performance

Wang Dongling’s Lines of Performance

While Wang Dongling is China’s top traditional-style calligrapher, he is also the artist who has most successfully explored calligraphy’s radical possibilities, to the point of forging a new branch of ink painting based on the abstract possibilities of the calligraphic line.

Duration : 7m
Maturity Level : all

Yang Jiechang’s Gu and Qi

Yang Jiechang’s Gu and Qi

Now a prominent, Paris-based representative of China’s artistic diaspora, Yang Jiechang is proficient in ink wash painting, gongbi (fine line), and calligraphy. Yang’s painting is particularly significant in its rare expression of radical thought via masterful manipulation of traditional media.

Duration : 12m
Maturity Level : all

Zheng Chongbin’s Process

Zheng Chongbin’s Process

In his practice, Zheng Chongbin has extended the possibilities of ink, and incorporated a new expression of depth and structure into ink painting. His powerful abstract paintings and installations make a compelling case for the future internationalism of ink painting.

Duration : 13m
Maturity Level : all

A one-take journey through Russia’s iconic Hermitage museum

A one-take journey through Russia’s iconic Hermitage museum

Experience a 5 hr 19 min 28 sec cinematic journey through one of the world’s biggest museums in St. Petersburg, Russia. Take in 45 galleries, 588 masterpieces, and live performances, shot in 4K on iPhone 11 Pro in one continuous take. Director: Axinya Gog

Duration : 0s
Maturity Level : all

Yael Toren: EARTH

Yael Toren: EARTH

An inverted virtual scene of a futuristic imagery, back to an ancient origin, embryonic and terminal at the same time, linked to the dust of creation and earth of burial. The human body within the focal point of the digital camera’s eye, is surrounded meticulously, first from very close-up and slowly at a growing distance, revealing a head, a hand, an ear, a whole image. The sculptural-material body, blindly withdrawn into itself, breaks up and crumbles before our very eyes. The whole cycle of life is completed; seemingly, the snake really bites its own tail. The embryonic image, vulnerable, though of a stony texture, or the opposite way around, an image of a forgotten fossil having “natural,” physical characteristics. A hyper-realistic scene, culminating in a shining explosion within the darkness.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Reiman & Weeks: The Wind Dies The Sun Sets

Reiman & Weeks: The Wind Dies The Sun Sets

The film follows three characters that are embedded within the business of fossil fuel. The Pennsylvania region has a long history of energy production, first associated with the industrial revolution, and presently with fracking. The film’s emotional cadence shares the difficult realities of the altered landscape and the people who are involved.

Duration : 16m
Maturity Level : all

Michael Najjar: Orbital Cascade 57-46

Michael Najjar: Orbital Cascade 57-46

Orbital cascade57-46 visualizes the demographics of defunct objects in orbit around the Earth from 1957 to 2046. This includes everything from spent rocket stages, and old satellites to fragments resulting from disintegration, erosion, and collisions. Currently there are about 600,000 objects larger than 1cm (0.4in) in space, orbiting Earth at a velocity of approximately 28,000 kmph (17,400 mph) and posing a severe threat to satellites, space stations and manned spaceflights. Drawn from a data archive, each spherule in the video represents a real existing object orbiting in space.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Oto Hudec: Mirror Land

Oto Hudec: Mirror Land

This story talks about a beekeeper from Dúbravica village in central Slovakia who has built a bee house in a form of a spaceship to fly with his bees to the Mirror Land. A planet, similar to ours, hidden behind the Sun, unspoiled. The video Mirror Land is a piece of a larger series of works documenting the story. Maybe one last ode to escapism but the escapism with a purpose. Or an ode to the work of beekeepers, those who share a bond with their bees - although -stealing- their honey, they protect and care for the families.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Michel Huneault: 10 Minutes at Tohoku

Michel Huneault: 10 Minutes at Tohoku

In his practice, Michel Huneault combines documentary photography and contemporary visual art. Committed to a personal, humanist approach, he brings together still images and immersive elements in his work.

Duration : 10m
Maturity Level : all

Louis Jammes: A Sanctuary

Louis Jammes: A Sanctuary

Louis Jammes is a French artist. He began in the early 80’s by photographing famous artists such as Andy Warhol, Robert Combas or Jean-Michel Basquiat. Louis also wanted to explore the world and so he went to places where reporters and war correspondents go: Tunisia, Sarajevo, Chernobyl, Iraq, Gaza. He doesn’t photograph barbarism but victims, mostly children, alone in a scenery he reworks subsequently in paintings.

Duration : 13m
Maturity Level : all

Michele Spanghero: Monologue

Michele Spanghero: Monologue

The video installations Monologue show the process of ambience recording of empty theaters: the layerings of the recordings make the theater resonate. With silence the theater is in darkness, but, as the sound rises, the lights slowly grow up to reveal the hall and, in backlight the artist alone on stage, carefully listening to the sound of the voice of the theater.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Marcantonio Lunardi: 370 New World

Marcantonio Lunardi: 370 New World

370 New World is a work on the new solitude created by the economic and social crisis which crossed the whole Europe in the last ten years. The human isolation which is displayed to the spectator is, by now, part of the everyday life of many people. The author thus introduces his creative work as a kind of mirror in which the spectator may recognise some details of his or her own life. Despite the video focuses on the new media, Lunardi does not want to make any accusation.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Arctic Study

Arctic Study

Ulrik Hage’s Derbyshire Arctic Study

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Miguel Ángel Belinchón: New Rummelsburg

Miguel Ángel Belinchón: New Rummelsburg

Since 1997, this Berlin-based artist is focusing on landscape, city and urbanism. His photography and video works highlights how architectural spaces and the urban environment can influence the life of the individuals and the rhythm of the city as a whole.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Mounir Fatmi: Save Manhattan

Mounir Fatmi: Save Manhattan

Save Manhattan is an installation composed of literary, philosophical, journalistic and religious works. This project is a reflection on the disaster of September 11, 2001.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Mounir Fatmi: The Angel’s Black Leg

Mounir Fatmi: The Angel’s Black Leg

Mounir Fatmi is one of the most internationally renowned artists from the Arab world. The Angel’s Black Leg, a tryptic of light boxes is based upon a painting by Fra Angelico. It depicts the twinbrothers Damian and Cosmas, who perform a transplant operation in which a black leg is being transplanted onto a white patient. They were physicians living in Syria in the 3rd century and became saints later. For Mounir Fatmi, this motif illustrates an attempt to overcome ethnic barriers. However, it is not revealed whether scientific interest prompted this motif or indeed how the experiment turns out.

Duration : 9m
Maturity Level : all