Music, art and LEGO, the creations by Waheed Zai

Music, art and LEGO, the creations by Waheed Zai

Emanuele D'Angelo · 3 years ago · Art

Artists have always been looking for new mediums to create their works, there are those who work with oil paint, those who simply draw on paper or those who illustrate relying on digital. But there are also those who recreate and reimagine iconic moments of pop culture with LEGO. This is the case of Waheed Zai, a young artist who manages to merge art and LEGO by recreating album covers, TV series, films and much more with the iconic bricks of the well-known Danish company.

The young artist in this case reinterpreted with his personal style the beautiful work of Vlad Sepetov, author of the cover of an album released on April 14, 2017, which received wide acclaim from music authors and rose to the top of the charts all over the world.

From Kendrick Lamar we move on to Future and Drake, a small jump from America to neighboring Canada, also in this case Waheed Zai has transformed rappers into the world famous miniatures. Released on January 10, 2020, Life Is Good is a single by American rapper Future, a true colossal of the genre.

Staying on the topic of masterpieces, space also for Frank Ocean and his wonderful album “Blond”, an album dating back to 2016 but that seems recorded now because of the sounds so current and then there is always his voice to make everything so special. A dispassionate advice we feel to give you if you haven’t, take a few days to listen and appreciate this album.

From these four covers we understood what Waheed Zai’s musical tastes are. Here he tried his hand at another masterpiece, the first mixtape of Canadian singer The Weeknd, released on March 21, 2011, which actually consecrated his rise.

We close our selection with another absolute masterpiece, one of the best albums of the 2000s Get Rich or Die Tryin’, the first official album by 50 Cent, released in 2003.
Also here Waheed Zai has not left out any detail, even reproducing the Gucci clothes that 50Cent wore at the time, of what would become the fourth best selling hip hop album of all time in the United States.

These are just few of the beautiful creations by Waheed Zai, able to recreate anything with his LEGOs, find out more following him on Instagram.

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Carissa Potter Carlson’s illustrations about human condition

Carissa Potter Carlson’s illustrations about human condition

Federica Cimorelli · 3 years ago · Art

Carissa Potter Carlson is an American artist and writer, founder of People I’ve Loved, an international organization with over 600 activities worldwide. Her art was born in Oakland, California, and has made its way to many other cities, into everyone’s homes, thoughts and emotions.

“Humans are so complicated. Art, objects, and other things to help you feel a little less alone.”

Carissa Potter Carlson creates very simple drawings and illustrations with a very strong emotional charge. She investigates the human being, examines universal situations and speaks humorously and poignantly about the human condition. Her work has great healing power because it can alleviate discontent and make everyone feel extremely normal.

Carissa’s art stems from the desire to bring people together and create an authentic connection between them. She investigates everyone’s intimacy, read the mind of each of us and tell about authentic feelings. With her, feeling vulnerable, lonely, with low self-esteem, or in search of one’s own identity goes from being a reason for embarrassment to a subject for analysis.

– Read also: Liberty Ewan illustrates the pleasures and sorrows of life

Each of her drawings offers a different experience because it tells something, leads to acceptance of others and reminds us that we must love ourselves more and learn to appreciate life’s little pleasures.

See a selection of her work here, follow her on Instagram and visit her personal website.

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Immersive installation with 8400 LED lights

Immersive installation with 8400 LED lights

Giulia Guido · 3 years ago · Art

When we talk about immersive installations we usually think of them in artistic contexts such as museums, exhibitions or design events. The light installation created by the Spanish creative studio Vitamin is located in the new Voltereta restaurant in Valencia. 

This is the third restaurant in the Voltereta chain and is inspired by the American speakeasies of the 1920s. From the street, the restaurant looks like a bookshop, but inside, once through the entrance, there is a huge lounge with velvet sofas and large round tables. 

Before sitting down and ordering, however, customers can enjoy a unique experience thanks to the work created by the Vitamin studio. Once inside Voltereta, a host invites customers to take a quiz (to prove social distancing) through a video mapping system that projects questions onto a book and which can be answered without touching anything. The answers are used to create a personalised experience. 

Once the quiz is over, customers are led to a room where they will find themselves surrounded by 8400 LED lights, arranged in 420 strips of 3 metres each, creating a luminous path to immerse themselves before entering the restaurant’s dining room and returning to the 1920s. 

Read also: Bruce Munro continues to illuminate California with “Light Tower”

If Valencia wasn’t on your list of places to visit yet, it certainly will be. 

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“Mix,” Cyril Lancelin’s latest watermelon installation

“Mix,” Cyril Lancelin’s latest watermelon installation

Emanuele D'Angelo · 3 years ago · Art

Their colors, texture and, in general, their graphics have inspired and continue to inspire many artists, in fact we can say that they are part of pop culture. Let’s talk about watermelons, yes, it may sound a bit strange to you but we are really talking about the colorful green fruit. Cyril Lancelin, a French artist has just decided to dedicate his new installation to this fruit, it is titled “Mix” and will be part of the permanent collection of the IOMA Art Center in Beijing.

The works of the French artist, who lives and works in Lyon, are able to create hybrid works made of sculptures, immersive installations, drawings, virtual experiences and videos that create links between the physical and the fictional.

Digital or real, his works offer an essentially optimistic vision, drawing an artificial and experiential landscape.

In the installation “Mix”, watermelons are used as building material, of course they are not real, their dimensions are slightly larger, but Cyril Lancelin’s goal was always to provide an immersive experience in an unreal space.

The Mix installation was inspired by still lifes, visitors to the IOMA Art Center are invited to walk through the installation, viewers will be immersed in this rocambulistic imagery created by the French artist.

Read also: The futuristic residences and the immersive installations of Cyril Lancelin

Welcome to the universe of Cyril Lancelin, an artist capable of mixing the real and the unreal, here are all the photos of “Mix”.

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Momusso turns emotions into illustrations

Momusso turns emotions into illustrations

Giulia Guido · 3 years ago · Art

We often find ourselves in situations that are difficult to explain in words. Sometimes we experience feelings that we cannot describe or catalogue. This is where Momusso, the artistic name of Martina Lorusso, comes to our rescue with her illustrations. 

It is likely that many of you have already heard her name; we at Collater.al have been following her work with fascination for some time and it seemed to us that the time had come to dedicate the space it deserves to her art. 

Martina Lorusso came to illustration thanks to an interest in advertising and posters that led her to study advertising graphics right from high school. Today, in addition to her work as a graphic designer, she is also an illustrator. 

Her works are images made up of a few elements, words or short sentences that in their simplicity always manage to capture states of mind common to many. Martina is inspired by what happens around her and by what she feels, and she shares this with the world. 

A little over a year ago, the artist published her first book entitled ‘Vocabolario Sentimentale – Le parole che non ti ho detto‘, published by Giunti Editore, which perfectly represents the essence of her work. It is a real illustrated vocabulary in which you can find invented words, often born from the crasis of two words, which perfectly describe concepts and feelings for which there is often no equivalent in words. “pigiamenica”, “amorancora”, “nostralgia” are just some of the terms you will find as you leaf through the pages of the book. 

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Finally, we would like to make special mention of the series of illustrations in the category “Dichiarazioni d’amore” (“Declarations of love”), which you can find on Momusso’s Instagram profile, where she is followed by over 80 thousand people. It is a collection of small sentences that make you smile and describe what true love means, the everyday love, much better than those pompous declarations we see in the movies. 

In short, Martina Lorusso, aka Momusso, is one of those artists you absolutely have to follow. 

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