Beautiful Bizarre Magazine • 30th June 2017 Popovy Sisters: A Dollhouse Haunted By Haute Couture Mesmerized by the charisma of personalities as diverse as Marilyn Monroe and Marilyn Manson, Lena & Katya Popovy decided to pour their bottomless talent into doll making.
@Susan Meiselas 25th October 2016 Susan Meiselas Photographs The Nicaraguan Revolution From her candid early work on New England’s Carnival Strippers to her coverage of combat training in Louisiana’s Fort Polk, American photographer and filmmaker Susan Meiselas invites the viewer to give much more than just one look.
@Kim Simonsson/Beautiful Bizarre Beautiful Bizarre Magazine • 10th June 2016 Interview with sculptor Kim Simonsson
BB Magazine • 24th December 2016 Yang Yongliang's Ancient Chinese Futurama There’s an unquestionable serenity and grace permeating Yang Yongliang‘s work that hardly betrays his 36 years of age. Echoing the imagery and unsurpassable craft of centuries-old paintings by great Chinese masters, his figures are languid and his...
Image by Manfred Reinert from Pixabay Culture Trip • 5th August 2019 Friedensreich Hundertwasser: The Straight Line Is Godless In the Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s radical manifestos, nothing is what it is supposed to be: the straight line is atheistic and immoral and an uneven floor is a melody to the feet.
Bridgehead Media • 22nd June 2020 Dig deep into surrealist cinema with five stunning films The strange reality of the lockdown confused us, made us reflect and rethink, and gave us some of the weirdest dreams we’ve ever had. It left us scrambling to put back together the pieces of life’s puzzle. Days and weeks blurred into one another, and...
@Anthony Lycett Medium • 14th May 2020 Interview — Sophie Cochevelou: “I love fashion that creates a link between people”. I visited the designer’s workshop in East London to talk about diversity and sustainability in fashion — and, naturally, her colour-saturated, art-fuelled, LEGO-laced creations.
BB Magazine • 2nd December 2015 The Benevolent Monsters of Johan Potma & Mateo Dineen: Interview This is Zozoville. An extraordinary, fuzzy, and snug place where life has a million colours and no one has to be perfect. Well, so long as they are fluent in monster language.
https://www.oca.no/press/images Culture Trip • 13th December 2015 Edvard Munch and Lene Berg: The Nordic Pavilion in the Age of Emancipation Exploring the conflicting nature of personal and social liberation, Norway’s Biennale exhibition Beware of the Holy Whore: Edvard Munch, Lene Berg and the Dilemma of Emancipation finds the common thread between works of the famous painter and artist...
BB Magazine • 5th December 2016 Luci Jockel's Fantasia of Fauna and Flora A pin of cicada shells – you could call it a challenge for the average accessories fan. But then, mortality is not easy to digest in any shape or form. Setting aside the egocentric and ever-lingering tumult of human mortality, Luci Jockel makes...
@Jamie Hewlett BB Magazine • 1st January 2016 Jamie Hewlett & the Suggestive Power of Things The punk-inspired, post-apocalyptic strips of Tank Girl first made a countercultural comic art hero of Jamie Hewlett in the tail end of the ’80s…Until his collaboration with instrumental Britpop figure Damon Albarn, in the uber-successful virtual band...
BB Magazine • 6th June 2017 Adipocere: The Dark Side of Hand Embroidery Sheep, skulls, and spider webs… mountain laurels, moths and dog-strangling vine: Earth’s beautiful, curious things find their way into Adipocere‘s hand embroidery, putting a deviant 21st-century spin on a well-respected—and so far largely...
BB Magazine • 20th July 2016 Beauty Through the Eyes of Valérie Belin The 2015 winner of the prestigious Prix Pictet (the global award in photography and sustainability) Valérie Belin has, since the mid-’90s, photographed a series of brides, packets of potato chips, bodybuilders, and mountains of Venetian mirrors that...
BB Magazine • 13th February 2016 Agostino Arrivabene: 'Hierogamy' @ Cara Gallery History, art and alchemy go hand-in-hand in Agostino Arrivabene‘s enigmatic pairings. “Hierogamy” imaginatively flutters between spiritual delight and earthly misfortune, darkness and light, love and sacrifice – men and women, as one, in sublime union.
BB Magazine • 1st May 2017 Rimel Neffati and the Allure of Imperfection French photographer Rimel Neffati‘s (and Beautiful Bizarre Magazine issue 006 | Sept 2014 featured artist) answer to having no technical knowledge working with a camera was to strike a pose and let her instincts take their course. Since she snapped...
BB Magazine • 5th November 2015 Spill Festival of Performance: On Spirit Combining live art, activism and performance with accompanying music, exhibitions, installations and artist panels, SPILL’s multi-faceted program typically challenges the body and the mind with the working title On Spirit.
Beautiful Bizarre Magazine • 9th January 2016 Jesse Draxler Terror Management™ @ Booth Gallery Keeping up with with Booth Gallery’s restless artistic and intellectual explorations, fine artist, illustrator, art director and designer Jesse Draxler brings to life, in unapologetically surreal, dadaist, expressionist black & white, the notions of...
Europe Up Close • 2nd February 2015 Take a New Look at Arty London London galleries and museums are more often than not an overwhelming experience – an endless parade of disoriented visitors blocking your view and usually accompanied by a busy soundtrack of camera clicks. But there’s a different and far more...
Culture Trip • 17th November 2016 10 Contemporary Argentinian Artists To Know Seemingly overnight, a vacant lot on London’s Ashwin Street transformed into a sober Victorian facade, reminiscent of the terraced properties that used to lay there years ago but inverted, and reflected onto a massive mirror — leaving visitors even...
