aesthetics

INTERVIEW | Xinyu Gao

INTERVIEW | Xinyu Gao

Xinyu Gao is a visual artist and photographer who specializes in fine art photography and experimental images. Obsessed with the visibility and invisibility of aesthetic and cultural diversity, she is inspired by echoes from pictorialism in her initial creation and constantly pricked from the perception of embodied senses, experience, emotion, and memory.

INTERVIEW | Paula Fernández López

INTERVIEW | Paula Fernández López

Paula Fernández López is a Spanish designer, born in Seville in 2002. Paula's works of art focus on the creative process's conceptual basis. It allows one to get a free interpretation of her designs, which norms and standards show very clearly and identify aesthetics. Ripped textures, a short neutral color palette, and an avant-garde style are the main elements that make her different and define her as an artist.

INTERVIEW | Amber Xu

INTERVIEW | Amber Xu

Amber Xu, an award-winning Motion Designer, Art Director, and Illustrator based in the SF Bay Area, boasts a diverse background in user experience, advertising, branding, and journalism. With a portfolio that spans multiple creative disciplines, Amber's work is celebrated for its unique blend of storytelling and captivating visuals. As an industry trailblazer, she continues to inspire and innovate, leaving an indelible mark on the world of design.

INTERVIEW | Broksh

INTERVIEW | Broksh

Broksh is a director, and his hobby is digital art (NFT). He has been in the NFT world since 2020, conquering the digital world with the 'SOLO' collection, focusing on women's aesthetics. Within 'SOLO', people can appreciate different styles of art, for instance, 2D, 3D, or Realistic rendering and animation. He has worked with many international artists and dreams of working with big fashion brands.

INTERVIEW | Nora Papp

INTERVIEW | Nora Papp

Nora Papp is a Swiss artist born and based in Zürich, Switzerland. Nora Papp combines her interest in human perception and the digital photographic picture with her investigation of the image as an object. She develops her works with the help of common image processing programmes on the computer, where she collects "aesthetic data" through the dissection of the digital image.

INTERVIEW | Bo Zhang

INTERVIEW | Bo Zhang

Bo Zhang is an artist, designer, and co-curator, based between Beijing and New York. Creativity and originality are the most solid foundations on which his works can be recognized and loved. He believes a good artwork should be sentimental, have a soul, not a cold entity, but a wonderful interaction with people. He is the founder of Desz office, a young creative studio that mixes art, design, material, and communications.

INTERVIEW | Xuanlin Ye

INTERVIEW | Xuanlin Ye

Xuanlin Ye tasks himself with finding a new genre of visual expression that is representative of the contemporary Asian geopolitical psyche without the influence of Western stereotypes. The two main strands of his work include taking the imagery of traditional Asian tropes and questioning it on the canvas in a humorous or insouciant way through the physical manipulation of paint.

INTERVIEW | Lena Silva

INTERVIEW | Lena Silva

Lena Silva is a contemporary, figurative, classical artist, of Portuguese origin, and she has resided most of her life in the United Kingdom. She enjoys working with a variety of mediums, from pencil graphite to pastels and watercolours. However, her favourite medium to work with is oils because of their texture, vibrant colours, and flexibility of shading and blending.

Dr Gindi, Kant and the Encounter with the Sublime

Dr Gindi, Kant and the Encounter with the Sublime

A passionate thinker, notwithstanding being a grounded sculptor, Dr Gindi reflects a lot on the connection between philosophy and the arts. Apart from their stunning appeal, Dr Gindi’s sculptures ask the viewer to mirror the grammar of consciousness, investigate a core sense of sublimity outside of decay, and contemplate about infinite presence.

INTERVIEW | LI MO

INTERVIEW | LI MO

LI MO is a Los Angeles-based fashion and knitwear designer that grew up in Shenzhen province in China. Her works reflect her own experiences and have formed her talented mind and creative vision. It explores the distinctiveness and newness of the world. She characterizes her signature aesthetic through elevating the innovation of spirituality and unique design.

INTERVIEW | Patrícia Pinheiro de Sousa

INTERVIEW | Patrícia Pinheiro de Sousa

Patrícia Pinheiro de Sousa is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She works with multiple mediums and disciplines, such as video, text-based works, performance, sound, and self-published books. She is interested in fragmented landscapes and how incomplete narratives affect collective memory, while her latest projects reflect an interest in future landscapes.

INTERVIEW | Marit Otto

INTERVIEW | Marit Otto

Marit Otto is a multi-disciplinary artist. Her artworks have a strong sense of aesthetics and a firm arrangement of color and composition. Otto’s art is often a personal reflection of social issues and current affairs. To the artist, innovation is not a purpose in itself but the result of progressive insight and the need to stretch and push her own boundaries.

INTERVIEW | Macha Ovtchinnikova

INTERVIEW | Macha Ovtchinnikova

French filmmaker and researcher from Russia. She's also writing and teaching at University the cinema aesthetics and video art. Experimenting with different film genres and mediums – documentary, fiction, experimental video – Macha Ovtchinnikova questions the notion of the time and its investment in the film forms.

INTERVIEW | Gudrun Latten

INTERVIEW | Gudrun Latten

Gudrun Latten discusses aesthetic problems and questions in photographs and videos, including the image and all its qualities, reality and illusion, art-historical genres, pluralism in style, the ambiguity of signs, gender, and identity issues. His videos are figurative art and are about abstraction, digital color, and movement, visualizing abstract content with figures. He admires Surrealism above all, while the tradition of baroque still life is also essential for his pictures.

INTERVIEW | Dina Cline

INTERVIEW | Dina Cline

Dina Cline works are critical engagements with philosophical principals of aesthetics and questions of existentialism. More recently, Dina Cline's painting has engaged with issues of psychology and mental health, as well as notions of the existence of God. As someone living with bipolar disorder and experiencing periods of mania and depression, she has a unique perspective on the human brain.