Tank full of Oil

Artists
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 - Stanza is a practising artist, based in London. This site shows only artwork made by Stanza; please enjoy. These artworks include installations, netart, public art, generative data driven art, paintings and prints. Artwork has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Bruges Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. He is the recipient of a Nesta Dreamtime Award, an AHRC creative fellowship and twenty four international art prizes and awards.-

- John Carrid /visual artist, contemporary art, polaroids, collages, sculpture, digital art, mixed media
His work focuses on identity processes and the body, which are the edges of the work on which is based constructivist and juxtaposed utopian designs. It creates situations in which trivial objects intended for his creations are modified or detached from their original meaning and their specific combinations and applying certain manipulations.-

- Marcos Siref / Illustrator  -

- David Aja is a Spanish comic book creator and illustrator, best known for his work on The Immortal Iron Fist and Hawkeye for Marvel comics. He earned a five-year degree in Fine Arts (Design and Audiovisuals specialty). He has worked as an illustrator in press, magazines, books, design, publicity..., on many other series for Marvel such as Daredevil or Wolverine and he has produced covers for several titles across all major publishers. -

- Carlos Hernandez is an artist/printmaker based in Houston, TX. He is a founding partner of Burning Bones Press, a full-service printmaking studio located in the Houston Heights, and has served as an instructor of Screen Printing at Rice University, Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts. Hernandez has been featured in the 2011 Communication Arts Typography annual, the 2011 & 2012 Communication Arts Illustration annual and was also recently published in the 2012 book Mexican Graphics by Korero Books-UK. He has designed and printed gig posters for such artists as The Smashing Pumpkins, Arcade Fire, Kings of Leon, Santana, and more.


- SBÄM is the work of Stefan Beham and Martin Atteneder (Linz, Austria). -

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 - Zdzisław Beksiński (pronounced [ˈzd͡ʑiswaf bɛkˈɕiɲskʲi]; 24 February 1929 – 21 February 2005) was a Polish painter, photographer and sculptor, specializing in the field of dystopian surrealism. Beksiński did his paintings and drawings in what he called either a 'Baroque' or a 'Gothic' manner. -

- Eyeone SH is a graffiti artist, graphic designer, publisher and printmaker who shows his work in museums, galleries, ‘zines and the streets of Los Angeles.  -

- The Vienna Secession  (Wiener Secession- Vereinigung Bildender Künstler Österreichs) was an art movement formed in 1897 by a group of Austrian artists who had resigned from the Association of Austrian Artists, housed in the Vienna Künstlerhaus. The main artists and designers involved with this movement were Gustav Klimt, Joseph Olbrich, Josef Hoffmann, Alfred Roller, and Peter Behrens. -

- Rethinking the world. The official site of the Bauhaus movement magazine. The State Bauhaus was founded by Walter Gropius as a school of arts in Weimar in 1919. As the Bauhaus was a combination of crafts and arts, its nature and concept was regarded as something completely new back then. Today, the historical Bauhaus is the most influential educational establishment in the fields of architecture, art and design. The Bauhaus existed from 1919 to 1933 and today the world considers it to be the home of the avant-guard of classical modern style in all fields of liberal and applied arts. The resonance of the Bauhaus can still be felt today, essentially characterizing the image of German design abroad. -

- Reid Haithcock/Boston based DIY punk and hardcore music documentary photographer. Reid is a documentary photographer focused on telling artists stories through tour, studio, portrait, and live documentary work. He seeks to partner with artists, labels, and publications to produce bodies of work that delve deeper into the experience of music culture. -

- Stephen and Timothy Quay (/ˈkweɪ/ KWAY; born June 17, 1947) are American identical twin brothers who are better known as the Brothers Quay or Quay Brothers. They are influential stop - motion animators. They are also the recipients of the 1998 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design for their work on the play The Chairs. -

- Floria Sigismondi is an Italian-Canadian photographer and director.
She is best known for writing and directing The Runaways, starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning as well as directing music videos for Justin Timberlake, Rihanna, The White Stripes, David Bowie, Pink, Marilyn Manson, Katy Perry, Björk, The Cure, Christina Aguilera, Ellie Goulding, Fiona Apple, Sigur Rós, Muse, Interpol, Leonard Cohen, The Dead Weather, Alice Glass and Perfume Genius, as well as commercials for Gucci, MAC, Target, Samsung, Absolut Vodka, Old Navy, Motorola, Adidas, Thierry Mugler and Eaton's.-

- Mateusz Niedbal from Poland, now based in Belgium (Lommel) is one of those artists who, at first sight, manage to convey many emotions, ... Inspired among others by Hieronimus Bosch and Joel Peter Witkin I follow a new wave of a dark fantasy art. I penetrate the deepest places of a human morality. -

- Code on Canvas is a Sydney-based creative coding studio specialising in interactive experiences across installation, mobile devices and the web. Individually we are artists and tinkerers, with a particular interest in technology and its creative applications. As a studio, we understand the importance of prioritising concept and narrative, and are able to think creatively in a way that is informed and inspired by – rather than tethered to – our technical expertise.-

- No 22 Studio is a Copenhagen based design studio specializing in
branding, communication, identities, websites, books within art,
music, fashion, culture and everything in-between. -

- Nihil is a french artist living in Norway. Inspired by indian and nordic sacred texts, medieval religious art, psychedelic trips and life experiences in hospitals, his work reflects on transcendence, identity and individuality. -

- Dave McKean has always been something of a creative chameleon. Artist, writer, film-maker, musician, sculptor, photographer - these and other, harder to define, facets take turns in the spotlight as he moves from books to comics to film to illustration, a very particular vision indelibly marked on each of these forms. -
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- OBNUBIL (Black Clothing Online for Women & Men) Independent brand influenced by the occult, myths, geometry, anatomy, nature, tattoo culture. -

- Curated Collection and online dealer of dark, occult and metal fine art. -

-  Jan Saudek is the most famous living Czech photographer, and simultaneously the most provocative. -

- The art of J.K. Potter has graced the covers and interiors of many weird fiction authors, including Tim Powers, Lucius Shepard, Ramsey Campbell, and Clive Barker.  His vibrant colors, thoughtful juxtapositions, and sense of the surreal and bizarre are unique in the way they interact with a story’s subject matter.  -

 - Dehn Sora (aka, Vincent Petitjean), is a French graphic designer, art director, and composer who builds sonic, hallucinatory worlds driven by ancient rituals and living death. -

- David Carson is a graphic designer, art director and surfer.  
David Carson is considered by many to be one of the world's most influential graphic designers. -

- NastPlas is a creative duo formed in 2006 by illustrator Fran R. Learte "drFranken" and creative director Natalia Molinos "Na", together "Nastplas Team". Their work combines an impressive range of digital elements and abstract patterns with which they develop elaborate pieces of art with a visual load.-
- Fine art photographer Nicolas Bruno has suffered from the terrifying condition known as sleep paralysis for 10 years. The matters of our psyche and our dreams, in particular, permeate the work of Nicolas Bruno not only as a phenomenon but moreover as the articulation of personal experience. The allusive, surreal and haunting works he creates are embodiments of the state in between waking and sleeping. They are an effect of the artist’s torment; the situation in which he is constrained to embrace the subconscious and its perils while being paralyzed in bed.  -

- Phlegm is a world-known cartoonist and illustrator. He is also well known for his self-published comics and highly creative street art.  -

 - Jon MacNair's illustrations are grotesque, macabre drawings that draw on the traditions of Medieval art, Surrealism and European folk tales. -

-  Nicola Samorì creates works of dark beauty and baroque drama. His paintings are gouged, distorted, melted and destroyed. -

- Chun Lo is a self taught digital illustrator. Featured in ImagineFX issue 61 as one of the ten rising stars of 2010, he specializes in fantasy oriented illustrations along with creature design. -


- Jeremy Famir art -

- Juan Reptor - Freelance Illustrator and Concept Artist. -

- Horror concept by Bogdan Rezunenko. -


- Visual Horror Sequences by Alexandros Pyromallis. -

 - Analog Illustrators currently living in cement cubes in Athens, Greece.
Viral Graphics started in January of 2006 by Alexandros Pyromallis and Konstantinos Psichas, with the sole purpose of creating artwork for bands we like. We were fortunate enough to have worked with some of our favorite bands in this short period of time we've been doing this. -
 


- M–City, or Mariusz Waras, is a graphic artist and outdoor painter who is an author of post-industrial murals with a geometric network of industrial elements. -

- Tim Noble and Sue Webster take ordinary things including rubbish, to make assemblages and then point light to create projected shadows which show a great likeness to something identifiable including self-portraits. The art of projection is emblematic of transformative art. -

- Dr Rev Mayers is an Australian tattoo artist with a passion for creating crimson artworks using nothing but blood. Using a variety of art techniques, he paints incredibly detailed yet somewhat creepy works of art. -

- Artist Rashad Alakbarov from Azerbaijan uses suspended translucent objects and other found

 materials to create light and shadow paintings on walls.-


- Joseph Beuys (German: [ˈjoːzɛf ˈbɔʏs]; 12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German Fluxus, happening, and performance artist as well as a sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist, and pedagogue.-


- The Story and Kinetic Sound Sculptures of Mo H. Zareei, his Brutalist Noise Ensemble, and the Brutalist architecture in Tehran and artists that influenced him – Trimpin, Bernier, Messier, Zimoun, and Pe Lang, and others. -


- Vaughan Oliver (born 1957) is a British graphic designer based in Epsom, south of London. Oliver is most noted for his work with graphic design studios 23 Envelope and v23. -

- Neville Brody (born 23 April 1957) is an English graphic designer, typographer and art director. -

- so+ba is active in the field of graphic design, art direction, sound visualization and teaching typography and design. -

  - Manchester-based sound artist Callum Steven Higgins. -


  
- Pedro Reyes (born 1972 Mexico City) is a Mexican artist. He uses sculpture, architecture, video, performance and participation^. His works aims to increase individual or collective agency in social, environmental, political or educational situations. -


- Lukasz Karluk is a digital artist working in the fields of interactive installation and generative computer art. His work spans across the multiple mediums of installation, apps, games, print, 3Dprint and sound sculptures. -

 - Zimoun (born 1977) is a Swiss artist who lives and works in Bern, Switzerland. A self-taught artist, he is most known for his sound sculptures, sound architectures and installation art that combine raw, industrial materials such as cardboard boxes, plastic bags, or old furniture, with mechanical elements such as dc-motors, wires, microphones, speakers and ventilators. -

- Realität is a research and experimentation lab founded by Juan Manuel de J. Escalante in Mexico City. It involves digital media, music, architecture, and sound art. Since 1998 they’ve worked on many educational, commercial, and experimental projects. They love custom made solutions. -

- Michael Kutsche is an award-winning Conceptual Artist, Illustrator and 3d Artist currently located in Berlin, Germany. He has been working in the visual effects industry since 1998 with his experiences reaching from art directing and animating commercials and music videos to lead design.
Michael is specialized in character design for every type of project, especially high end 3d Animation and high-res cover art, he is always interested in doing commissioned work for challenging projects in the film and games industry. -

Galleries
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 - Tate is an institution that houses, in a network of four art museums, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art (Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives.) . It is not a government institution, but its main sponsor is the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.^- 

- This website documents The Museum of Modern Art's extraordinary collection of more than 3,000 Expressionist prints, drawings, paintings, sculptures, illustrated books, and periodicals, exploring the various artists, themes, and techniques associated with the major modernist movement that developed in Germany and Austria during the early decades of the 20th century. -

- V2_, Lab for the Unstable Media is an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam (Netherland). V2_ presents, produces, archives and publishes research at the interface of art, technology and society. Founded in 1981, V2_ offers a platform for artists, designers, scientists, researchers, theorists, and developers of software and hardware from various disciplines to discuss their work and share their findings. In V2_'s view, art and design play an essential role in the social embedding of technological developments. V2_ creates a context in which issues regarding the social impact of technology are explored through critical dialogue, artistic reflection and practice-oriented research. -


- artelier mécano ____________*experimental workshop and art gallery* -

- /Salone Gemma/Faltwerksalon/ An area of about 20 square meters with a large window on the street is used by the two creators, Claudio Farina, architect from Trieste, and Kathrin Villwock, designer and graphic designer from Berlin, as a laboratory for the production, development and dissemination of projects, ideas and reflections for a different approach to the space of two and more dimensions. Performances, exhibitions, presentations, projections, lectures on the subject of architects, designers, graphic designers and international artists are scheduled. -

 - Arts_Territory is a London based non-profit arts organisation. Initiated as a vehicle to develop creative links between Polish and UK artists and to provide a support network for international creatives interested in engaging with Polish arts, Arts Territory has developed into wider territories of investigation. -

- Škuc Gallery has been operating on the premises at 21 Stari trg in Ljubljana since 1978 as part of the ŠKUC Cultural Centre, one of the pillars of non-governmental culture in Slovenia for 40 years now. In these years of operation, Škuc Gallery has become a prominent international art centre for exhibitions, different art events, publishing and documentation. -

-  A world-wide collection of bloggers sharing content ranging from dark futurism, forward-thinking design, and tomorrow’s fashion. -

-  IDIS research is about the classification and analysis of information related to developments of devices made for ​​creation, storage, manipulation and transmission of images and sounds, analog and digital, focusing in art systems and past and present experiences made ​​by designers, artists, community groups and international and South American researchers. -

Music can be defined by art.
- Graphic-noise bridges the gap between the aural and the visual and connnects fans with some of metal's best artists. - 

Performance/Contemporary Theatres
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- Belgian surrealist horror-theatre company Abattoir Fermé -
- Abattoir Fermé’s earliest work (1999 – 2002) has been described as underground-guerilla-performance-theatre and comprised about 25 self-written plays. Themes were mostly found in the dark underbelly of society and staged using influences ranging from dadaism to the modern horror film. -

- Founded in 2010, Anarchy Dance Theatre uses contemporary dance theatre to express our concerns about people and life, by reproducing through movement the intricate power structures and personal relationships in today’s powerful social structures. Anarchy strives to create a dance training structure of its own, starting from awareness of the body, and reaching out to explore the relationships between time, space, objects and others, with the intention of increasing one’s own sensitivity. -


- Nicolas Collins was "a pioneer in the use of microcomputers in live performance, and has made extensive use of 'home-made' electronic circuitry, radio, found sound material, and transformed musical instruments." -

- Ron Athey (born December 16, 1961) is an American performance artist associated with body art and with extreme performance art. He has performed in the U.S. and internationally Athey's work explores challenging subjects like the relationships between desire, sexuality and traumatic experience. -

- The life and work of Franko B is situated somewhere between isolation and seduction, benevolence and confrontation, suffering and eroticism, punk and poetry. -


- Butoh is a contemporary avant-garde dance form which originated in Japan and which was first performed there in 1959. - 

- DEREVO is a physical theatre dance clowning butoh mime music film nothing of the above everything else you... -

- Oleg Borisovich Kulik, a 36-year-old Russian )Ukrainian-born Russian performance artist, sculptor, photographer and curator) performance artist from Moscow, is living his life as a dog, and a pretty unfriendly one at that. -