Artist Research

Jin Eui Kim

Exploration with tonal effects and spatial illusions by using gradient in tone, width of bands and interval between bands is Jin Eui’s passion that results in works that are both visually and intellectually challenging.

Reference：https://www.jineuikim.co.uk/biography

The use of colour and line to create an optical illusion effect makes the flat patterns seem to be converging towards the centre, and the transition from static to dynamic is very interesting to me, allowing the visual dynamics to be combined with the actual dynamics to enhance the playfulness.

OPject - Spherical Form

Nicholas Lees

Talking about his work Nicholas said: “I interrogate the relationship between what is solid and material and what is numinous and ephemeral. The works explore the uncertainty that rests within boundaries and across thresholds. This uncertainty is key to my enquiry; how to realise the physical and spatial representation of the blurred and uncertain edge – the penumbra of material. Within this body of work this edge can be seen and felt through cast shadows, within the certainty of materiality. The presence of the object on the surface is floating and shifting according to perception.” NL

Reference：https://cavalierofinn.com/artists/34-nicholas-lees/

For me, the most curious thing about Nicholas Lees' work is that as the light passes over the edges of the vessels, the shapes inside seem to be changing, with different effects all the time.

Floating Bowls

Diptych，2021

Felipe Pantone

Felipe Pantone evokes a spirit in his work that feels like a collision between an analog past and a digitized future, where human beings and machines will inevitably glitch alongside one another in a prism of neon gradients, geometric shapes, optical patterns, and jagged grids.

“Color only happens because of light, and light is the only reason why life happens,” Pantone says. "Light and color are the very essence of visual art. Thanks to television, computers, and modern lighting, our perception of light and color has changed completely.”

For Pantone, his art is a meditation on the ways we consume visual information. Drawing inspiration from kinetic artist like Victor Vasarely and Carlos Cruz-Diez — who both worked with movement) — his contemporary work produces the sensation of vibration as the viewer’s position changes in relation to the work. Pantone works on various software and then is translated into frescoes, murals, paintings, and sculptures which give tactile merit to what is occurring in the digital world.

Reference：https://www.felipepantone.com/foldersfp

I really like the collision and blending of colours in Felipe Pantone's work, the constant interplay of colours to form new colours through shifting, rotating and other kinetic movements, the ever-changing visual effect is a delight.