Born in Germany, MOKI‘s work includes paintings, comics, drawings, street art, plush toys, sculptures, clothing, and even music and performance. However she primarily identifies as a painter.
Her paintings often depict lonely northern places – frozen lakes, mossy caves, rocky tundra, secret clearings, quiet woods, rushing waterfalls, rolling hills, lonely mountains – and landscapes which are melancholy and evocative, almost anatomical forms: “I am looking for places that are good for hiding, where you feel secure and safe, where you can disappear or return home. Where you can be invisible.”
Thoughtful giants inhabit these lands and often wear parts of the landscape as their clothing. In addition to the giants, one also encounters strange furry creatures with inquisitive expressions, beakless birds with soulful eyes and enigmatic smiles, shadowy beings with fluid forms and melancholy faces who could just as easily be spirits as corporeal inhabitants of their surroundings.
Enter in MOKI‘s invented world, world in which the unnatural becomes the real, and the imagined becomes the standard.
NOVEMBRE MAGAZINE is brand new Swiss magazine coming out in spring 2010. His mission is to fulfill Switzerland’s need for a publication on fashion & arts, constituting an internal communication platform for professionals and students and also a window for the general public in Switzerland and abroad.
Personally I can’t wait to see, read and touch this new publication, stay tuned on WFW for more informations, pictures and goodies.
I think it’s time for me to present you officially my all new, all good: WE FIND WILDNESS.
It was impossible to do everything on my own- I’m quite a sucker for all that html things- so I left the web expertise to a real pro: a French young guy called JEAN ANDRÉ. After discussions, mails, re-mails, ..he created what you see now, where you are now, what you love now, my pride: https://www.we-find-wildness.com
JEAN ANDRÉ is a graphic designer, illustrator and webmaster. He not only creates numerous rad websites like RODEO-SALAD-GANG ( an online free space where you can post what you want), DON’T HAPPY BE WORRY (another rad free space) or the website for the talented photographer LUDMILLA CERVENY, JEAN has also created the visual identity (CD & vinyl cover, merchandising & images) for PAMELA HUTE, a French performer. Please feel free to visit his website!
So why don’t you take a look and see what’s inside? Please don’t hesitate to throw your valuable feedback my way—good, bad, what’s lacking…everything. Make yourself at home and feel free to express yourselves
ps. Endless thanks to JEAN for his work and his kindness
PETROVSKY & RAMONE is MORENA WESTERIK and PETRA VAN BENNEKUM. The talented Dutch duo met while assisting the same photographer, traveling the world they started to create concepts and ideas for shoots and realizing them.
category: art - Comments Off on Emma Löfström 26 February 2010
EMMA LÖFSTRÖM is a London based Swedish illustrator and artist working on a freelance basis.
She has an MA (Communication Arts and Design) from the Royal College of Art (2009), and a BA (Graphic Design), from Central St Martins (2007). Not bad isn’t it!
LANGDON GRAVES‘work explores the relationship of belief and the body through a layering of symbols and ideals pulled from ancient folklore, organized religion and modern medicine, considering the role of superstition in each.
His drawings portray a series of women and figurative elements laced with iconic superstitious symbolism. In each circumstance, the subject of the drawing wears her beliefs like prostheses that generate both curative and poisonous effects.
The result is a series of drawings and scupltures which cross the line between seduction and disturbance.
category: art - Comments Off on Elzo Durt 25 February 2010
ELZO DURT is a Belgian artist who creates – by collecting collect all kinds of images that he finds in old magazines, books, encyclopaedia, comics…and then by using serigraphy – surrealist collages.
An Elzo is a very speedy dude, always working, careful about details and very demanding upon himself. I was born in 1980 and have quickly been into music thanks to my dad who’s a punk & rock & roll album collector.
I have inherited this passion since I was very young. Inevitably, all these record covers and gig posters have marked me deeply, and from that point I developed a passion for graphic arts & quickly wanted to exploit all this imagery. – by ELZO DURT for http://www.feedmecoolshit.com
category: art, photography - Comments Off on Ellen Rogers 25 February 2010
ELLEN ROGERS is a pure experimenter: no photoshop, no digital equipment or manipulation, all of her work is analogue. Her images are the result of experimentions with traditional darkroom processes. Fantastic!
category: art, video, web - Comments Off on Philippe Tempelman & Erik Annerborn 25 February 2010
This video combines a music video with a fashion showcase. The music is by a Swedish artist named FRANZ EDVARD CEDRINS (with the voice of God: JAMES ELY ) while the clothing was created by Swedish fashion designer ERIK ANNERBORN and combined they’ve got something really great going on…
ERIK ANNERBORN‘s work is a continuously ongoing exploration of how we can live and in which guise. For this project (exhibited at department store PUB in January 2010), he developped a sustainable fashion concept where movements replace clothes as a sign of the times. A way of shifting the question of ”how does she look?” to ”what does she do?”
Form of expression for the style and custom prevalent at the given time.
Spells are patterns of motion used to express belonging and identity.
This mysterious video was directed by PHILIPPE TEMPELMAN and KIAN ZUBICKY
Dutch photographer ARI MARCOPOULOS moved to New York in 1979 and quickly became part of the downtown art scene. He not only got a job printing black-and-white photographs for ANDY WARHOL, but he found also a position as a studio assistant with the photographer IRVINN PENN.
In the 1990sARI MARCOPOULOS became interested in the lives of skateboarders. He befriended and photographed a group of young skaters who would go on to be immortalized by photographer and director LARRY CLARK and scriptwriter HARMONY KORINE in the 1995 film Kids. Following the skaters on his bicycle, MARCOPOULOS documented their community and individual idiosyncrasies.
His work is characterized by a remarkable feeling of intimacy. Whether it concerns celebrities from the world of music or art, or his own family, he approaches his subjects in an intuitive manner and he always knows how to get close to the heart. His photos are direct, extremely personal and subtly structured. Recurrent themes are art, music, graffiti and the vulnerability of the human body.
+ I suggest you Within arm’s reach (JRP Ringier), the first monograph on MARCOPOULOS‘ work, gathering works from three decades and accompanied by an essay by STEPHANIE CANNIZZO.
category: art, photography, video, web - Comments Off on Petra Cortright 25 February 2010
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PETRA CORTRIGHT is, what we can called, a net artist. Her work, consisting in digital images and videos, is quite conceptual but deeply visual. Cheap images, software effects, and the general soup of internet culture are the raw material for her creation.
“I try to be better at this but I am a really impatient person. Gifs and webcams are so fast, low file size, load fast, they are almost scraps. I like not having the commitment of working with hi def vid/images. It just sucks how serious you have to be, it requires too much thinking. Gifs are lil treasures of the internet, its so great when you stumble onto a huge unknown index that you hadn’t seen before”.
category: video - Comments Off on Pilpeled 24 February 2010
“rafsoda”, Popup Store at the Tel Aviv port. 2010
PILPELED, 24 year old graphic designer, artist and illustrator, is completely self-taught and coming outta Tel Aviv. He likes to create large paste-ups: he goes large because he sees the way that size can speak while neglecting any attempts towards balance.
I have no formal training, my whole life I’ve drawn and painted. When I was 16 I started using photoshop and doing some work for friends. While serving my military obligation, I began moonlighting as a freelance. When that period was over I continued working on party flyers, album covers, t-shirts and a lots of other stuff. Last Year (2007) I joined MTV Israel as Chief Designer, but I have found events at home in Israel the most solid form of schooling. When flyers are crossing the country with your name on it, you’re accountable and I benefited from the pressure. – by PILPELED for Modart #19
“rafsoda”, Popup Store at the Tel Aviv port. 2010