Futuretro is a UK-based artist known for creating interactive light sculptures.  These pieces are vibrantly coloured and come alive in front of the viewer: they can automatically change their shapes, patterns and colours.  Some light sculptures even respond to sound and music.  As the name suggests, the work combines the futuristic qualities of otherworldliness with retro characteristics of 1960′s art and architecture.  The pieces are fluid and are almost organic, reflecting the artist’s dedication to environmental sustainability.  Concerned with environmental impact of the work, Futuretro uses heat to sculpt discarded offcuts of acrylic.  Futuretro is a member of b-uncut and this week’s featured artist in the b-uncut “Special Exhibition” gallery.

b-uncut: What was your very first artwork?

Futuretro: I have been making art from a very early age, so my first artwork would have been created during a time of my life of which I have no conscious memory. My first artwork that I remember was a drawing of Superman with a back to front ‘S’ on his chest.

b-uncut: Describe the one you love the most—why?

Futuretro: All of my sculptures are important to me for different reasons, so the piece that I ‘love the most’ varies depending on how I’m feeling at the time.

b-uncut: What are your methods? Your inspirations?

Futuretro: My art is inspired by the natural world, my dreams and inner visions. Futuretro [pronounced future-retro] is my creative alias and it symbolises a harmonious ‘balance of opposites’. The general theme of my work is the flow and balance of energies. I like to express and share my energy by channelling it into my creations; they are physical representations of the energy that flows through my soul from the spirit realm. It is my aim to make unique, eye-catching sculptures for people to enjoy, in the hope of spreading positivity and raising awareness of the necessity for humans to live in harmony with nature.

b-uncut: What did it take to make it to where you are now?

Futuretro: Everything that I have done in my life so far.

b-uncut: You describe your sculptures as ‘interactive’. Can you explain how viewers interact with these pieces?

Futuretro: It is possible to interact with Futuretro light sculptures by changing their shapes, patterns and colours using various processes and technologies. Some of the light sculptures also have the additional interactive quality of being responsive to sound and music.  

b-uncut:  If you were to design the ultimate dinner party, what 5 artists (dead or alive) would you include for stimulating conversation?

Futuretro: Alex Grey, Chris Dyer, Pablo Amaringo, Banksy, Felix Thorn.

b-uncut: Your biggest (albeit endearing) flaw?

Futuretro: Living in another world, where my concept of time is different to most other people.

b-uncut: Your parents advice you should have followed, but didn’t?

Futuretro: I’ve always chosen my own paths and my parents have supported my decisions (mostly!)

b-uncut:  The superhero power you wish you had?

Futuretro: Time traveller.

b-uncut: The celebrity you’d like to meet?

Futuretro: David Attenborough.

b-uncut: Your least favourite interview question?

Futuretro: I like all questions.

b-uncut: Where do you see yourself in…

One month?

Futuretro: In my studio making art.

One year?

Futuretro: In my studio making more art.

One decade?

Futuretro: In a self-sustainable studio near a tropical ocean making art.

It’s that time of the month where we share some examples of the fantastic featured artwork on b-uncut. For more featured art, take a look here!

ARCO

by Damien Franco

 

An awesome old building in downtown Midland, TX that recently was torn down.

 

The Great White Beyond God

 by Russell Chowdhury 

 

Coucher sur le Vieux Port

by Laurent Sweetness  

y08_32

 

by DongSheng Guan

It’s the end of the week and we thought we’d share some further fantastic examples of b-uncut’s featured art. Enjoy!

…and now it is peaceful and quiet

by Daria Kudla

A memory of summer.

Bois de Boulogne,Paris

 by Adrienne Jalbert

Photo

 by Mark Rodmell

Lifeline

 by Otto Farkas

Oil on Canvas.

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Raging against the machine. Catalysing change. A pilot distresses as he watches his plane plummet. We’ve picked art from our crowd in this vein. The activist or revolutionary believes one person can change the world and that the world needs a changing. The outsiders and free thinkers have always refreshed man’s consciousness and artists are our cultural visionaries. b-uncut’s online artists network has started an art revolution going against the grain of the traditional art industry. Liberating and empowering artists and opening their work up to the world. From our talented collective we have selected 5 artworks that sing the sweet song of rebellion.

“The subject matter is based on the philosophy that lies behind the perception of reality and imagination and the way that those two can blend together. Following those principles I am creating visuals and stories blending traditional techniques with digital and special effects” Margarita I. Alassia

“I find my work can be in your face and that’s the effect I wish to give off as well as a message. Sometimes I can find my art to be dark and yet also give light on what is affecting the world.” Jason Ellis

“There is no winner, we are all losers – I didn’t finish this painting series yet, several other key incidences and the city ablaze including my little Spa Siam shop in one of the city centre’s largest shopping Mall – still too hot to assess the damage but I don’t think there’s much left-just mangled steel and burnt out concrete. The Red shirts have announced that they will be starting up again on 26 th June – great we clear up what’s left of our city for them to come back and destroy it again.” Arisara Caroline Faulder

Carl John Dimitri has a selection of political mixed media pieces. This style is aggravated by the subject matter which ingrains these images with frustration and presence.

“Redvolution is a small painting that was shown at a group show called “Retomando el Rojo”, which means something like “taking back the red”. Chavez´s so called revolution has taken the colour red hostage and the show addressed that. Redvolution is a perfume bottle in the spirit of Gautier that represents the fake ideal of the revolution. The cologne bottle of the Redvolution is fashioned in our real liberator’s classical attire, Simon Bolivar’s. Fundamentally it is more of a capitalist venture for a few than a populist movement but they have been sooo smart at doing it that they have fooled many for more than a decade.  Now millions of Venezuelans and Americans; people like Sean penn, Danny Glover, and even Oliver Stone!!! I lived in Cuba for over a year so I know how bad these repressive regimes are!!! Anyway Redvolution is the new fragrance By Hugo D´Boss… a.k.a Hugo Chavez….” Javaroa Jose-Vazquez

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Javaroa has participated in many art fairs, solo shows and group shows…He was part owner of an advertising agency in Venezuela that is still running today and is one of the top 15 agencies.

“I am still a part of it…but back in 95 I started painting, by 97 I knew this is what I really loved doing, so I left everything and moved to la Habana to study art and paint. I studied there at La Academia de Arte San Alejandro, the second oldest art school in the Americas! I spent a year there and then moved to NYC. I got a scholarship at the New York Studio School and studied with great artists like Graham Nickson, Mercedes Mater, Wayne Thiebaud, etc… since I got the scholarship that let me to enrol at night at NY academy of art… by 2001 I had decided to study with Jenny Saville in London and moved to the Slade school of painting at the University college of London.

2002 came along and Venezuela was in deep political turmoil so I went there to participate. I and many others over through President Chavez on the 11th April. That event changed me and I started working with the news. Gluing newspaper onto everything…that led me to land a huge political collage, painting at the MOLAA. The Museum of Latin American Art in California…the most important and representative museum for Latin American art in the US.

Katya Leonovich describes her paintings as figurative, abstract and high fashion. ‘Man in Black’ below is one of many energetic ruptures tightly grabbing the viewer by the scruff of the neck. Visit her page to see more tantalising and bold depictions of the human form.

‘Eyes on the Crowd‘ has been a treat to choose from this month. Our online art community is bursting with talent. Below are four of our exceptional collage artists, and damn their work’s goood!

Kathy Seaboyer had her first solo show in an commercial gallery in 2008. Her work includes childhood memories, fact-based historical references and modern-media based information. The work is executed in a variety of styles and media to further enhance the final outcome.  She has exhibited extensively most notably at Bemused, Argyle Fine Art in Halifax NS Canada, Art As Spectacle, Katonah Museum of Modern Art in NY,  International Millennium Show in Kyoto Japan and Metaphor for the 20th Century at the Hera Gallery in Rhode Island. She will be having a solo show of her latest work in Mexico at the end of the year.

Cora de Lang has worked in many places all over the world including Nigeria, Germany, India, Mexico, Spain and currently working in Sri Lanka. She says the reason why she left her home town and travels around the world is to prove to herself “that the dismissal of the otherness as a culture, countries or people are nourished and preserved by prejudices – and I wanted to overcome them”. Her work really shows her connection with different cultures and worldwide artists.

Stefan Fransson is an artist from Stockholm, Sweden. He received a M.F.A in Sculpture at the Royal Acadamy in Stockholm, and the influence of the medium of sculpture is certainly visible in his textural and multi-elemental collage works. These works are created digitally, and Fransson enjoys the freedom of the creative process in the medium of collage as he is constantly moving the shapes and colours in an image. Fransson has recently begun to display his collages in an international network, and this has resulted in a commission for his work to be displayed in the Google centre in Stockholm.

Takashi is a Japanese painter, surfer & karate student. He has chosen to express his feelings between the abstract and figurative with blushes of colour. When he’s had difficulties in life, art was there and helped his soul. From this; specials paintings came. His work is not all born from adversity but instead there was an audience who spoke with him and through his paintings.

The broad, confident brush stokes and bright expressions would bring positivity, sunshine and warmth to any environment. Takashi gives calligraphic spirit to canvas and his painting echoes the zen culture he prescribes to. If it were music, you’d call it Chill-out or Balearic but like the artist there’s more to it than that. Click here to visit Takashi’s gallery page or invest in his work.

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A glorious day to celebrate all we love! From the hundreds of talented artists at b-uncut we bring you a festive taster. Enjoy the jaw-dropping art…..
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Charbel Samuel Aoun - Passion

Robert Wilkinson - Church Window

Mirko Sevic - 00

SecondNature – Above Us The Trees

Anil Kumar Kohli - Expression of Heaven