// July 30th, 2010 // View Comments // b-inspired
“We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words–to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.” – C.S. Lewis.
// March 31st, 2010 // View Comments // b-Crowd
“Through b-uncut I have met many artists that I now have a friendship with. Whether it be a comment here or there or a chat, we have forged friendships that b-uncut made possible not allowing distance prevent our unity.“ Larisa
“Art is the doorway I walk through for me to step outside of ME.“
Larisa Colantonio is a wife, a mother and an artist with a twist. Known for her Pensaic style of art, she runs off of raw emotion and bends it with her mind to create something truly unique.
In high school, through the open mindedness of her art teacher she was able to create a style of art she called Pensaic. From there she flourished. Pensaic art became the outlet for her soul and mind.
As she entered adulthood, she found that painting with acrylic was also a very good way for her
to express herself. On occasion, you will find that she has even combined her acrylic painting with her Pensaic style.
“I see everything in layers, every layer is more important than the next.”
Joe Niderno has been dreaming and drawing since childhood. ”My motivation derives from always seeing artistic visions in everything around me. Often silenced in immediate thought or wonder. I am always pushing to project my visions the best way I can alongside maintaining a self truth. I am trying to evolve as an artist everyday while being inspired by many artists in all types of mediums.”
“I climb through the hole in the fabric of our existence, seeking inspiration.“
Michelle Gates is a self-taught British artist whose art is influenced by raw emotion and her environment. She loves the interplay between colour and light, and the perceived and unseen worlds. Her dreams are also a vivid source of inspiration. They are twilight zone scenarios where reality and fantasy become intertwined.
What drives her? Each newborn concept strikes her vision and entices her creativity.
What excites her? The smell of fresh paint and the first scratch of the pencil on virgin paper. Emotional expression is key to all her paintings.
“I like to free myself from distress through painting and encourage others to do the same.”
Ross Kerr is a South African artist. “I am keen to begin exhibiting overseas. Personally the meaning of my life is to leave a mark with my paintings once I have passed on, or preferably while I am still living! I like to call my work Naive/Raw, as I do not attempt to make an intellectual statement, and I am uninfluenced by growing trends or fashion.”
// March 30th, 2010 // View Comments // Eyes on the Crowd
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If Van Gogh was alive, he would obviously be a member of b-uncut and we may have selected the self-portrait he painted after he lobbed off a chunk of his ear but still he would have had stiff competition! Images can transport us, even for a moment we can lose ourselves in an artist’s vision. There’s nothing like an image taking you on that trip into unknown realms and imprisoning you with its voodoo. Time to walk through the city gates and hitch a ride on our crazy train. It’s March Madness!!
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Spanish artist Milan Rubio was born in Madrid. Drawing everywhere was an early obsession. He studied animation and illustration and his work appears in national and international magazines. He is always finding new ways to express the inner beauty of the human body. His paintings follow one statement: Think fast, paint faster. He captures warm earth colors from his Mediterranean roots and represents the human figure in a modern, neo-cubist style. His graphic work is about power and boldness. He is a young emerging artist with group exhibitions in Madrid, London, Bologna and New York.
Chinese artist DongSheng Guan has exhibited in Russia and China. Now in the middle stage of his artistic career he concentrates in three areas: watercolor painting, contemporary paintings and digital art. In his ‘Spring Light‘ series Guan has pumped a glass-wall voyeurism onto imagery that is prolific on the internet. The visual language of these playboy pastries could be likened to Chuck Close but not their conception. Guan takes animalistic control of the viewer and lures them helplessly into the unsettling position of a peeping Tom.
Italian Rita Carioti developed a passion for art when she was 14 years old. She has worked as a professional photographer for architecture, publicity, portraits, scenery and photo-journalism. She photographs numerous famous characters from the art and performance industries and many of her photos are published in daily papers, books, catalogues, brochures and reviews. Rita is currently a teacher at the Photographic Studio of Arezzo where she lives and works. She loves to search for and express humanity’s internal landscapes. Her works dynamically probe our conditions. Her conceptual imagery is direct and exposes our frailest notions.
Born in what was Yugoslavia and now living in Spain, painter Mirjana Lucic’s art is raw. She is a graduate in Philosophy and Literature and a post-graduate Painter. Her drawings and paintings are the result of a constant search for the inexplicable in and above our own selves. In her paintings you’ll notice tense connections grasping as they are torn from one another. Tied systems that battle and repel but co-exist. Their savage harmony is tactile and commanding as well as deftly engrossing.
French artist Herbot specialises in photomontage. He was born and grew up in a harbor city… Square shaped, rectangular and surrounded by the sea. “When I was little I couldn’t draw well, so I had fun cutting out pictures and assembling the pieces together, I didn’t know it yet but I was making photo-montage…” His photo-montage has advanced and his work is now incisive, funny and a bit mad.
// March 25th, 2010 // View Comments // b-hind the scenes, b-street
// March 3rd, 2010 // View Comments // b-loud
b-uncut: The artists you like the most and why?
DV: I love Kurt Schwitters and Joseph Cornell, two real poets. Their approach toward the materials they used was deep and touching. I love the Schwitters’ motto: ‘one can use waste material to shout out loud’.
They were in a way two outsiders which worked by themselves, obsessed by their dreams and with an imaginary universe of their own.
b-uncut: The one you hate the most and why?
DV: I (almost) learned not to hate anybody. I simply don’t like pretentious artists which don’t have enough talent to justify their vanity.
b-uncut: What did it take to make it where you are now?
DV: I don’t know where I am, but anyway I believe that it’s always like this: you have to feed your love for something with your true passion and work on it. Sometimes, if your love is true, you succeed to reach a certain degree of sincerity in what you do. And that is important for your true happiness.
b-uncut: Who has helped you along the way?
DV: Friends which encouraged me to show my works around.
b-uncut: What are your methods? Your inspiration?
DV: I don’t work so much, in terms of time. I can work for one day and make several collages which really make me satisfied, and then stop for a month. The execution is quick.
It seems that I reach a certain point and then my subconscious is ready to ‘read’ the materials and make a synthesis in few minutes.
b-uncut: If I ask you to describe your art, would it be redundant to describe yourself?
DV: Of course the art objects and the artist that makes it are related. The only thing I can say is that I chose collage because with this technique you find more than searching for something specific. And I love that sense of surprise. Moreover I’m a bad painter.
b-uncut: The swear word you like the most?
DV: I love all them.
b-uncut: The flaws a woman should have to seduce you?
DV: She has to be funny.
b-uncut: Your parents’ advice you haven’t followed?
DV: Wash your hands.
b-uncut: The talent you wouldn’t want to have?
DV: To be so funny.
b-uncut: The person you’d like to be hated by?
DV: Nobody.
b-uncut: The question I should never ask you?
DV: The one before.
5 seconds?
Here.
5 minutes?
Here.
5 days?
Here.
5 months?
Here.
5 centuries?
Dead.
// February 26th, 2010 // View Comments // Eyes on the Crowd
At the end of each month we will select a small number of artists to feature in our new publication, Eyes on the Crowd. These artists will also receive an invitation to sell their work in our curated gallery. This months theme is the figure and after much deliberation and debate here is the selection…
Click on the artists below to see more of their work:
Yael Zaken
Dmitriy Kedrin
Stephen Sheffield
John Sauve
Kurt La Quaglia
// February 5th, 2010 // View Comments // b-scene, b-wired
Kinetica is an awesome showcase of Kinetic art with over 150 artists exhibited. I was astounded by the diversity at this show. There were flashing lights, colour-changing-gyrating ribbons, drawing machines, butterflies that followed my movements, pictures drawn by GPS and a Heineken keg robot! This is the top show for the weekend – but be quick – it ends Sunday! It offers wonderment by the bucket load for all ages.
It was excellent talking to the different artists who have greatly contrasting backgrounds from physics to painting. Many of them work collaboratively to achieve ambitious visions; successful through the different skill sets each bring. Roseline de Thélin was one of our favourites. She had produced some dazzling figurative sculptures composed of light. See picture below
Curator Dianne Harris has put together a show that doesn’t stand still. If we eventually pry the footage from yesterday (tech probs) be sure to see more accurately the wonders of kinetic art! I think this show is very exciting because you probably won’t see anything like its quality or scale till Kinetica 2011.
Have a look at the images below for a static viewpoint that cannot compare to the life and dynamic of this electro-charged experience!
Exhibition is near Baker Street Tube, only until Sunday 7th Feb
// November 17th, 2009 // View Comments // b-scene
Last night b-uncut came alive in the flesh. A big shout out to everyone who came and partied with us. The whole team worked really hard and put on a fantastic show. There was great art, great conversation and a bit of the aha factor as press, collectors and artists saw first hand what we’re about at b-uncut.com.
Artists in attendance included Philip Letts, Stephen Farley, Blandine Martin, Sandra Wray, Sayed Hassan, Jason Ellis, and Shikyba Azizi. The evening began with cocktails and a casual stroll around our gallery space where visitors and members of the press got a chance to view some fantastic art and talk to the b-uncut artists in person.
There was quite a buzz (and it was not the prosecco talking) surrounding Letts’ unique ‘blur Photography’ pieces, charismatic Farley’s visually (and physically!) stimulating ‘textural’ art (everyone was compelled to rub it) and Azizi’s dark but captivating sculptural installation.
Philip Letts, founder of b-uncut, gave a demonstration of how to navigate the website to a crowd of 50 including artists, online and offline press, collectors, and art enthusiasts. The demo provided insight into the theory behind b-uncut’s ethos: create an art marketplace that is artist centric as opposed to the traditional (and played-out) dealer centric marketplace in position now. We are a unique crowd, all about empowering the artist through the power of the net, so visit us at our home on b-uncut.net or b-uncut.com. And get ready for our next party – SPRING WAREHOUSE. We’ll keep you informed.
// October 19th, 2009 // View Comments // b-hind the scenes
Everybody asks themselves what art is… We think that art is any human creation that is able to lift the spirit to a higher plain of emotion and wonderment.
We have made our artworks accessible online, and now we want to give our talented community of artists a voice beyond their art, whilst creating a platform to bridge the gap between artists, art lovers and buyers.
Over the coming months we’ll be bringing our community of artists to life through this blog, discussing the latest art news, and highlighting the stuff we think is uber-cool!
We look forward to seeing you join the conversation.
