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b-uncut: The online art platform enabling artists

// March 11th, 2010 // Comments // b-scene

Two of our artists will be
showing at the Real exhibition in
Chelsea this month through
the connections they
made here at b-uncut.

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The Real exhibition has been set up by an organisation called Go Figurative that specialise in figurative art. Claudie Bastide and Carolyn Jordan got connected with the co-founders of Go Figurative through another b-uncut member, Thomas Hodges who had exhibited with them before. Another great success story thanks to the power of our network!
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Go figurative are using online tools to their advantage, for example they used LinkedIn to find their artists. As a 21st century artist/art business it’s time to maximise your potential with the massive  networking capabilities of the internet. Go Figurative is one example and all of us at b-uncut another. Fundamentally as an artist you want to connect your art with the right people. Well the best way is through networking and no better way to network than online.
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Claudie Bastide
“In my pictorial research my interest shifted naturally from space geometry to urban geometry. My fascination with modern architecture has been the driving force of these photos. This exciting and sometimes stifling geometry encourages me to ask the place of man and nature in this environment. I respond by giving some disturbing or idyllic and always questioning aspects to my imagery. Although a photograph may be very beautiful, it doesn’t attract me enough, I must re-model it with the computer tools to give it the aspect of my vision.”

Claudie will be showing ‘Geometrie Urbaine’ printed on dibond aluminum.


 Carolyn Jordan
“Probing analytical portraits and accomplished draughtsmanship belie the underlying solitude of people, whether alone or in groups facing the inevitability of their lives.” (extract London Portrait)  Her ‘people paintings’ where characters, sometimes eccentric, always interesting are dragged into the limelight and put into an almost theatrical décor. “My puppet show” as she calls it. Carolyn Jordan’s work can be found in countries all over the world. Once established she was able to invest in a real artist’s studio more suited to her large-format oil paintings.  The Mira Mar Gallery in Sarasota, Florida has shown her work alongside Cindy Sherman and Basquiat to name but a few.
Carolyn will be showing 3 paintings, ‘My job’s hanging by a thread’, ‘Unfinished Business’ and ‘Hanging Out’.

So put it in your diary and get to the show. You’ll see some great work as well as catch up with Claudie, Carolyn and some of the b-uncut team in the flesh. Not only that, who says you can’t be in the next Go Figurative exhibition! Get connected.

b-loud: Daniele Villa: Expect the Unexpected

// March 3rd, 2010 // Comments // b-loud

Hands, glue and scissors are the three things which make this artist so fabulous.

Daniele Villa, 36 years old, is an Italian collages’ artist based in Rome and member, such as founder, of the “Citrullo International”. This independent film production company, focused on documentaries,  animations, books and cinema allows him to experience several forms of art. Creativity and technical skills are the main ingredient of his works, mixed with an accurate use of colours, forms and different materials. As Max Ernst, one of his favourite artists, said: “Si ce sont les plumes qui font le plumage ce n’est pas la colle qui fait le collage”, If it’s not the feather that makes a plumage, then it’s not the glue that makes a collage.
Read on to find out more about this amazing artist!

b-Loud:

b-uncut: What was your first artwork?
 DV: I used to send funny postcards to friends using photomontage and collage. I loved the fact of sending a unique work that could not be repeated, and, of course, I loved the effect of displacement that the collage technique allows.

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-quick:

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.

b-honest: Where do you see yourself in..

5 seconds?
Here.
5 minutes?
Here.
5 days?
Here.
5 months?
Here.
5 centuries?
Dead.

‘EYES ON THE CROWD’ @b-uncut: ISSUE 1: Figurative February

// February 26th, 2010 // 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

b-uncut: the virtual gallery gets real!

// November 17th, 2009 // 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.

Over 700 artists around the world unite – we’re now live!

// October 19th, 2009 // 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.