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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

March of Beasts

March of Beasts

In The Entry of the Animals into Noah’s Ark (c. 1613), Jan Brueghel the Elder orchestrates a vivid parade of creatures, each rendered with tender detail and gentle humor. In the Slow Art format, the painting becomes a serene procession, zebras, lions, owls, and camels move with quiet dignity across a lush, forested landscape. The chaos of an impending flood is softened by the harmony of life in motion. This visual meditation invites viewers to notice the small wonders within a grand biblical moment. This work can be seen at [The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles,https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103RJT]

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Harmony of the Wild

Harmony of the Wild

In this Roman mosaic from the 2nd to 3rd century CE, Orpheus sits serenely, his lyre in hand, encircled by a diverse assembly of animals, including lions, deer, and birds, all entranced by his music. Presented in the Slow Art format, the intricate tesserae and balanced composition unfold gradually, inviting viewers into a meditative space where myth and artistry converge. The mosaic’s harmonious design reflects the ancient belief in music’s power to bridge the natural and human worlds, offering a timeless moment of unity and peace.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Fury in Motion

Fury in Motion

In The Tiger Hunt (1616), Peter Paul Rubens captures the raw drama of man versus nature in a swirling tempest of muscle, fear, and fury. Translated into the Slow Art format, the chaos unfolds with deliberate slowness, each movement, from a rearing horse to the flash of a blade, suspended in painterly tension. The viewer is drawn into the clash of warm flesh tones and dense, shadowy depths. This is not just a battle scene, it’s a meditation on power, beauty, and the wild unpredictability of life.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Crimson Reverie

Crimson Reverie

In Arearea (1892), Paul Gauguin conjures a dreamlike Tahitian scene where vibrant hues and symbolic forms intertwine. A red dog, enigmatic and alert, anchors the foreground, while two women sit serenely amid a tapestry of bold color planes, emerald greens, sunlit yellows, and deep reds. Rendered in the Slow Art format, the composition unfolds gradually, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in its meditative rhythm. The absence of sky and the presence of stylized elements evoke a sense of timelessness, reflecting Gauguin’s quest for a purer, more spiritual world. This work can be seen at [Museum Collection,Musée d’Orsay, Paris https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/arearea-291]

Duration : 3m
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

Mounir Fatmi: Mixology

Mounir Fatmi: Mixology

Mixology shows a close-up of a DJ’s mixer. It’s a familiar sight: two decks separated by a mixing console, with the arms of a DJ flipping switches and spinning records. But here, the black vinyl of the records is decorated with circular Hadiths of the Prophet, painted white on the grooved surfaces.

Duration : 11m
Maturity Level : all

Raphaël Kuntz: Empty

Raphaël Kuntz: Empty

A look on utopia, A look on history and a look on the perspective. A museum of the Louvre without work and without public. Consequence of a disaster, uchronie or anticipation, we enter the fiction of a desertion. Pictures with a disconcerting clearness, with a too perfect balance, with a too controlled chromaticism. A medium which did not find his place. Because he does not have any, or because he is composed of all those who were experimented so far.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all