The Windshield Wiper, a short film from Alberto Mieglo won an Oscar for Animated short in 2022, and was published for view on YouTube that same year. I only just found this out. Apologies.
The Windshield Wiper in Full
The Windshield Wiper — 2021
Tracey Emin Speaks with Jerry Saltz at NYAA
photo Mauren M Evans for Financial Times.
Last week I got to attend an artist talk with Tracey Emin at New York Academy of Art as she was interviewed by writer and critic Jerry Saltz. It was wonderful to see her in person and hear how her life had been affected by cancer, and how she is motivated, a fire under her, to make the most of her remaining productive years.
Read the article here on Isadore&Dunn Gallery.
I’m Here, I’m Alive — Financial Times
Isadore & Dunn - Markings
For the last few months I’ve been working with my wife and partner Sarah, to establish a gallery Isadore&Dunn here in Brooklyn. Online (for now), our goal is to promote work from smart and evocative emerging artists, to help them gain an audience, and to build and grow a community.
Today we opened our first show. After two months of sifting through a ton of incredible submissions, it is up. It’s a small step, but I am proud of the work we’ve done and excited to see how this unfolds our futures, engaging with and supporting the art community.
Our first show got a surprisingly robust volley of submissions. Many great works from a range of artists. Photography, drawing, painting, sculpture… and all engaging takes on the theme of Markings.
Ignasi Monreal
Ignasi Monreal is a Spanish illustrator based in Lisbon, who paints some really inventive and fantastical images that incorporate classic themes and mythology with modern fashion and personal observation.
it seems to be he’s thinking through concepts of beauty and absurdity mostly, recalling Hieronymus Bosch (15th century) or finding the divine (perhaps timeless) beauty in some modern person passed out on a couch, or checking her makeup on public transit. These small moments are elevated and shown in a format we associate with classical painting typically reserved for Gods or Cathedrals. And in a way allows us to imagine that maybe Michelangelo, in painting Gods and Angels and epic scenes, was probably also incorporating current things around himself that he found beautiful or sexy. Bringing this very human touch to the divine world.
Gucci Halucination - Production Company: The Line.
Ahmed Aldoori – Dune V Lawrence of Arabia
Ahmed Aldoori recently put out a reaction and artist critique video of the recent Dune trailer from Denis Villeneuve. I thought the trailer looked interesting, I hadn’t seen any visuals from this new film yet and I have really loved Villeneuve’s work in the past.
Mr Aldoori had some criticisms, specifically about the use of color in the film grade. He brings up the point that overall the feeling is grey and muted down. And that while this is supposed to be a stark dry desert planet, that doesn’t necessarily mean ‘colorless’. As a counterpoint he shows many examples from the 1962 masterpiece, Lawrence of Arabia. Also in the desert, also stark, also dry. But because of the film stock, and the realities of a real desert location. Colors lighting that could be easily missed by a very green screen-heavy, matte-painted, digital filmmaking process.
He also takes issue with the reluctance current digital filmmakers tend to have at avoiding black and silhouettes. People shoot raw, they have details in the shadows, and theres a tendency to want to keep that information because its there. And also people all down the line from directors and DP’s to post production artists are more used to seeing this footage where even in the blacks, there is detail. And that affects the final grade.
Ahmed talks about blacks, and their use in a composition to lead the eye. As a way of making a photograph bold and graphic.
George Condo on Drawing
George Condo is an American painter and artist. He lives in New York.
He talks about Picasso and early 20th century artists rebelling against his classical training… for Condo painting in the 80’s it was all about rebelling against abstraction. Back to figurative image making.
Walk Like You – Yuri Schwedoff
Yuri Schwedoff is a Russian artist and painter. These works seem to mostly be digital, but they are rendered with a high degree of realism. They are dark and atmospheric. Fantastical stuff. Very fun.
I don’t know where or if photography plays into his workflow, but it seems like it must, at least as reference for faces, poses etc. Or maybe he is just that skilled at knowing how light plays on things. I know for me personally, if I’m drawing from a live model or a photograph, there are always details and features that show up that I would totally miss if I am drawing purely from my mind. Things from my head look cartoony and odd. Its not the same. But certainly with practice you can develop a knowledge of anatomy and color and light that gets you to realistically imagine most anything.
Walk Like You - Simon Stålenhag
Simon Stalenhåg
Simon Stalenhag is a painter from Sweden who’s work describes a very vivid and compellingly decaying future.
I’ve been really fascinated recently of the idea of a large scene, rather than an intimate one, like a classical painting where there is a full story playing out before you. Stalenhags paintings imply the existence of a complicated and deep world. There’s so much in atmosphere and scale, as well as inference in these images. And it’s that inference, that suggestion without explanation, that is so fascination.
And this world is so intriguing that it’s actually getting its own series on Amazon. The pilot will be directed by none other than Mark Romanek. It will be very interesting. Theres a lot possible in Simon’s imaginary world to be explored.
I’ll be watching.
Walk Like You: Martine Johanna
Amazing surreal paintings from Martine Johanna.
Martine Johanna a painter and artist from Amsterdam.
'...delicately rendered figures convey a sense of full immersion within their own “internal psychic landscape.” The work is imbued with a mysterious narrative and sensation of knowing that each character in the work has a full and complex history that the viewer can never fully comprehend. The paintings have a signature prismatic palette, visually stimulating and playful while expressing an underlying sense of uncertainty and unrest.'
Walk Like You: Alberto Mieglo
Alberto Mieglo. Spanish painter and concept artist. Notable works include visdev for Tron Uprsing and the Beatles Rockband Open (which is how I first found his work). Simply stunning.
Walk Like You: Michael Carson
Michael Carson has an amazing sense of color and contrast in these portraits. He's injecting heat into shadows and muted down washed out greys across heavy saturated spaces. They feel a bit like really beautifully overexposed film slides. I am fascinated by this use of color. Wonderful stuff.
Walk Like You: Megan Howland
Walk Like You: Hope Gangloff
Walk Like You: Phil Hale
Phil Hale, who I've found sort of adjacent to Ashley Wood, making beautiful paintings sometimes for comics. Incredible dynamic action, color and compositions. Beautiful stuff.
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