During 2017, American artist Sydney Cash created a series of Pattern Paintings. These oil paintings on paper are bonded onto sheet aluminum, making the paper ultra-flat, and allowing edges to follow any line. „The year’s exploration shifted from a rectangular format by introducing rounded corners, and then having forms move through the straight sides” the […]
We are taking a tour inside the palace of Alhambra – inside an original, special vision of Alhambra, as reflected by Margarida Sardinha, who documented this amazing piece of architecture and, then, turned it into a completely new visual story. As we take a look at the compositions of this series, created in 2014 and […]
Before the opening of a large scale show in Lisbon, Margarida Sardinha, Portuguese independent artist and director, shares with us some of her views on optical art, film, shadows, symbols, the theory of multiverses or the perception of architecture.
The sunny lands of Andalucia were, once, home of a prosperous civilization, Turdetan, that left a legacy of amazing geometrical patterns. Stylized and conceptualized, these models now wrap the wines of Andalusian Bodegas Salado into a graphical system full of contrasts and meanings – the most recent project of the Spanish agency TSMGO. The wealth […]
“I tell color stories. In my work color speaks louder than words” says Ana Romero, the artist who creates vibrant patterns for her eponym lifestyle brand. Just before the launch of her new website, we’re sharing the editorial presentation which will accompany it: Mirror / Mirror. The staple of Ana Romero’s work is her unique use […]
More than a century before Op Art being stated as an artistic statement, the Portuguese pavement was already transforming the urban promenades into big abstract canvases. Here’s a short selection of some interesting cobblestone patterns of Lisbon. There’s something very special about taking a walk in any city of Portugal, and that special thing is […]
