Zin Lim was born in Seoul, South Korea. He liked drawing and studied basic drawing and color theory to prepare for an entrance test of art college. He majored in industrial design as an emphasis of Environmental design at Hong-Ik University (Hong Dae Ap, Shinchon in Seoul) that is located in the most dynamic area culturally and academically in South Korea. The indie culture and artistic diversity influenced him to have a wide range of artistic perspectives. In 2000, he moved to San Francisco, California to study 3-D Animation at the Academy of Art University. Including past majors, environment/product design and animation, which are also human-related studies that require basic understanding of human circumstances and the human body. During the foundation studies of the human body and philosophy, he found he was more interested in the human itself.

To Zin Lim, fine art is the best form to observe people, interpret their personal philosophy and express aesthetics through visual message. In 2006, Lim completed his MFA with distinction at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco with numerous top awards from the most prestigious U.S national and international competitions. He has been teaching painting and drawing courses at the Graduate School of Fine Art / Illustration at Academy of Art University. Zin Lim's teaching extended to workshops in various cities worldwide and video lectures through YouTube channel online. Zin Lim is creating paintings, drawings and art videos at his studio in Alameda, CA.

In other news, Rick Owens Fall 2021 Men's. “I’m always conscious of my own aggression. And the older that I get, I feel like I should have reached a level of serenity that I just haven’t; I get impatient, I get itchy, I snap at people sometimes… Aggression is something that I’m fascinated with because I’m constantly conscious of wrestling with it, personally. And I think that that’s true of every man.”

To Zin Lim, fine art is the best form to observe people, interpret their personal philosophy and express aesthetics through visual message.

ZIN LIM: THE INDIE CULTURE AND ARTISTIC DIVERSITY

What I would like to express through my work is very simple: I am trying to bring out strangeness from familiarity (visual habit). Everything there is out there in this world, more or less, provides a familiar vision. This familiar vision can be replaced as a habit. This habitual vision that every object gives us and creates comfort. However, it shuts down all the other possibilities. The habitual vision or visual habit makes us go by the routine ways. It stops us from having adventures and checking the wonders out there. My work is trying to destroy, tear up, and reconstruct this habitual vision so that our vision can be expanded to other images. I have strong faith in my work that my personal behaviour may lead us.

“Strangeness within habitual vision off from the track."

"My work is trying to destroy, tear up, and reconstruct this habitual vision so that our vision can be expanded to other images."

KIM BYUNGKWAN: STRANGENESS WITHIN HABITUAL VISION OFF FROM THE TRACK

Tony Belobrajdic is an award-winning Australian painter who has exhibited nationally and has featured in the publication, ‘The Encyclopedia of Watercolour Techniques’. His portraits of animals and humans are an exploration of beauty and allow him to delve deeper into the inner workings of the mind. Belobrajdic’s contemporary impressionistic style is translated onto canvas or paper without preliminary sketches. The artist uses both watercolors and oils in his pieces.

"Studying works of old masters helps me to stay in check with my technique. Exploring the complexity of humans and animals gives me inspiration. My art is a combination of these two things."

Toni Belobrajdic is a full-time figurative artist. He started exhibiting in the late seventies and had his first solo show in 1983, in Croatia. Toni relocated to New York in 1987 where he continued his art practice. He has been living and working as a Freelance Artist in Sydney since 1989. Toni divides his time between his studios in Sydney and Croatia, exhibits both in Sydney and Europe regularly. He also teaches and conducts painting workshops in Sydney. Oils and watercolours have been the mediums of choice. Etchings is the latest medium being explored and studied with a great passion. 

TONY BELOBRAJDIC: THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE MIND

Beatriz Mendonça de Castilho graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts of São Paulo, Brazil at The School of Visual Arts Parque Lage RJ. 

 Beatriz Mendonça de Castilho's mystical women's portraits.

BEATRIZ MENDONÇA DE CASTILHO: SWEET PRESENCE

Tage has several years of education in visual arts, thereof five years at the Art Academy in Oslo. Besides working in the art industry, he has also had extensive practice in computer engineering and programming. Later he advanced in software control systems as a programmer for Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace, and then in oil & gas designing safety control systems for subsea compressors such as Aker Solutions.

"During my five years at the Art Academy, my class painted live models at least two days a week. One of the models was in fact one of Edvard Munch's models when she was young guess that very few living artists have had the experience of painting Edvard Munch's models."

Tage's works have been bought by art collectors, public institutions, and private companies such as Manda Capital that by now has an inventory of more than twenty Tage's works. Furthermore, his professor Knut Rose commissioned a portrait that was executed during several events at the Masters studio in Bygdøy near Oslo.

Haakon Mehren, a well-known art collector, bought a couple of paintings and also appointed Tage for the art award: Aksel Waldemars prize.

Bernt Hellum was Tage's main gallerist for many years, he sold several Tage's paintings and also staged a sold-out exhibition of the polish native artist Ryszard Warsinsky on one occasion.

For Tage, each painting is a new project and is treated as such. He sees no reason to repeat himself in multiple paintings. Therefore it is quite rare that two artworks are identically executed. So even if those are different in style and execution, his artistic DNA appears to be intact throughout his production.

Tage takes base in certain abstract expressions as suggested by Professor Knut Rose at the Academy in Oslo. Instead of condensing and concretising the abstract elements in the direction of a figurative motif, Fredheim allows purely painterly elements to continue dominating the creative process, much like Edvard Munch in his most expressionistic works. This creates a slide into a new domain of painting and further progress toward a freer expression - he struggles to keep the images open to new directions and meanings. This creates the space for a new kind of aesthetic that, according to himself, is more distinctive and less conventional. The result ends with paintings that work by virtue of themselves, not on the basis of rigid conventions or external references.

The works can be viewed individually or in conjunction. Grouping images side by side also creates an interesting interaction between the basic timbre of the individual works.

In some paintings, Tage lays geometric structures or landscape features in the bottom before paint coats are applied, often in 20 to 30 transparent layers in a single image. In these works, there is a dynamic between the previous ideas and the wider movement which acts as a structural model.

Distinct characteristics of the artist's paintings are texture and coloration - the final result of simple but thoughtful paint application and structures suggested in the abstract motifs.

TAGE FREDHEIM: A SLIDE INTO A NEW DOMAIN OF PAINTING

Iness Rychlik is a Polish-born photographer and filmmaker with a particular interest in historical drama. Despite her severe myopia, she has been dedicated to visual storytelling for over a decade.

Iness graduated with First Class Honours in Film from Screen Academy Scotland. Set in Victorian London, her final-year film ‘The Dark Box’ follows an unhappily married woman, who pursues photography to escape from her oppressive relationship. ‘The Dark Box’ premiered at Camerimage, where Iness received a Golden Tadpole nomination for her cinematography. Most recently, she shot and directed two mini-documentaries about art for the BBC Scotland.

Rychlik is recognised for her dark feminine erotica, which has been awarded and exhibited all around the world. She is fascinated by the idea of conveying sexuality and cruelty in a subtle evocative way. Her conceptual self-portraits provoke the viewer’s imagination, rather than satisfy it.

Rychlik is fascinated by the idea of conveying sexuality and cruelty in a subtle evocative way. Her conceptual self-portraits provoke the viewer’s imagination, rather than satisfy it.

Strip-Project was born in 2012 as a visual/textual space, a great chaotic container of ideas, artworks, images, feelings about a new way to look at fashion, photography and contemporary art. In 2014, the best of the first two years of Strip-Project has been collected in Strip-Book #1, a 180-page limited edition magazine, with unpublished works of Italian and foreign artists and other extras. In 2015, Strip-Project has officially become a selected images archive from '70 and started collaborating with other photographers and companies. Strip-Project was founded by Anna Ka and Martina Spagnoli.

Anna Ka alias Mary Jo Peace is an Italian artist and graphic designer who works in Milan, Paris, London, New York, Florence. Anna Ka loves art, movies, fashion, soap operas. In 2010, she created Fur, an independent editorial of art, in collaboration with Wonderfur Luka. In 2012, Anna Ka meets Martina Spagnoli, stylist and photographer and they create Strip-Project.

Martina Spagnoli is a fashion designer, stylist and photographer, working in the world of fashion, film and communication in Rome, Florence, New York and another cities. In 2005, after various experiences in the fashion industry, she continued in show styling in Rome. She began working as an assistant costume designer for film, and image consultant for artists and musicians, and in 2011 she started working as a freelance photographer for magazines. In 2012, together with Anna Ka (Visual Artist and Graphic), she founded Strip-Project.

Strip-Project was founded by Anna Ka and Martina Spagnoli.

STRIP-PROJECT: A SELECTED VINTAGE FASHION CAMPAIGNS' ARCHIVE (PART 2)

Native to Seoul South Korea, photographer Minwoo Yoo sees the world with surreal photographs translated from her drawings. At a young age, Minwoo began sketching that which inspired her in daily life. Soon after, a love of photography was sparked by a need to express herself quickly and precisely. Inspiration for Minwoo’s photographic composition is drawn from her own sketches, resulting in a photo-realistic world of colours, patterns, and dissecting lines culled from her own hand-drawn daydreams. A sort of sleepy mysticism is present in her work, which figures numerous encounters with the female body, and the feisty interactions between the body and its environment. Minwoo’s affection for and attention to the moment is evident in all of her photographs. With her unconventional eye for the beauty in distortion, Minwoo’s work is kinky and exciting.

"I’m not interested in celebrities. I just want to take photographs of people who are free spirits. I can figure them out because they emerge by their gestures and looks.

If I can live forever by advanced sciences and technologies, I would be empty rather than happy. I’m satisfied with my allowed life. I just want to live happily during the time.

I like Friedlander, Bresson. His accidental photos are daily things, but amazing. He takes daily things differently."

I’m not interested in celebrities. I just want to take photographs of people who are free spirits. I can figure them out because they emerge by their gestures and looks.

A book published in 1985. Women's exhibitionism in public and full front nudity photographed by Patrick Magaud in the 1980s' Paris.

EXHIBITION IN PARIS: PATRICK MAGAUD'S 1985 BOOK

STRIP-PROJECT: A SELECTED VINTAGE FASHION CAMPAIGNS' ARCHIVE (PART 1)

Justin Tyler Close born in Ontario, Canada in 1984 is the founder, creative director and editor-in-chief of The Lab Magazine.

He started his career studying film theory and graduated with honors from Vancouver Film School.  His most recent feature film "In Their Skin" premiered at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival and was distributed by IFC Films.

Soon after Justin turned to photography and has captured some of the world's most influential artists and entertainers including Marina Abramovic, Bryan Cranston, Lykke Li, Lenny Kravitz, Nas and Carly Rae Jepsen.

Justin is also an artist specializing in photography and has exhibited all over the world in galleries and group shows.  He has also curated his own shows with the most recent one "Disconnection" which was a group show at Wilding Cran Gallery in Downtown LA.

Justin's recent commercial project documenting a NASA astronomer for Saucony running shoes was nominated for a Young Directors Award at Cannes Lions Festival in 2015.  

Justin is currently living and working in Los Angeles, CA.

Justin's recent commercial project documenting a NASA astronomer for Saucony running shoes was nominated for a Young Directors Award at Cannes Lions Festival in 2015. 

JUSTIN TYLER CLOSE: CREATIVE DIRECTOR AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF THE LAB MAGAZINE

Benoist Van Borren is a skilled minimalist sculptor. He masters the art of cast concrete, bringing to life this rough, dense material and its monolithic blocks. Each of these blocks presents us with an enigma to decipher. They are the results of abstract mathematics and geometric games, guided by an indiscernible golden number, fruits from the imagination of an architect with an artist's soul. Caskets form a subversive subconscious, which questions and stimulate our contemplation and observations. Everything is in order and one can feel the hieratic beauty in this silent gallery. Benoist’s dense and massive blocks witness the intensity of his fascination for a complex art in his conception, and skilled refinement of its appearance.

Everything is in order and one can feel the hieratic beauty in this silent gallery.

BENOIST VAN BORREN'S ABSTRACT MATHEMATICAL AND GEOMETRICAL GAMES

Patricia Denimal's work reflects a mythological world that is both personal and archaic. At first glance, some of Denimal's sculptures may seem familiar, but a closer look often reveals signs of chimeric transformations that provoke a feeling of strangeness. The artist no longer draws or even imagines her future work in advance. Denimal simply lets her creatures come to life on her workbench, guided only by the expressions and features that emerge under the pressure of her fingers.

Patricia Denimal was born in Calais. At 5 she started playing piano, at 15, harp and left the conservatory at 20 with the Musique de Chambre prize. At 12, she founded her first theater company. During this time she would draw everywhere, create figurines of garden soil, and sculpt using candles wax under her desk in class.

The artist no longer draws or even imagines her future work in advance. Denimal simply lets her creatures come to life on her workbench, guided only by the expressions and features that emerge under the pressure of her fingers.

Documentary and fashion photographer / visual artist based in Russia, Moscow.

Claudio Capanna was born in Rome in 1980. As a film graduate of the University of Rome, he dedicated his final thesis to the German director Werner Herzog. He started working in the audiovisual sector in 1999 and has directed several documentaries and short movies that premiered at international festivals.

In 2006, Capanna moved to Paris to attend the Ateliers Varan film course. There, he started to work for Arte France and directed several documentaries about Italy. Until nowadays he works with several broadcast European television and communication agencies (RTBF, Rai, Al Jazeera, SVT, RTS, Youtube, Vice Virtue, European Commission ).

His first feature-length documentary film “Life to Come” was produced by Arte, RTBF, Proxymus TV, Al Jazeera Documentary Television and it was screening in some of the biggest documentary festivals in the world, like IDFA, DOK Leipzig and Hot-Docs.

Claudio Capanna approached analogue photography in 2005, specializing in black and white. Mater is his first photographic book, curated by Steve Bisson, founder of Urbanautica Institute.

The artist currently lives and works in Brussels.

MATER: CLAUDIO CAPANNA'S FIRST PHOTOGRAPHIC BOOK

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