Plastik Art
ICONOGRAPHY OF A REAL AND IMAGINARY EGYPT
Youssef Nabil left Egypt in 2003, yet really never left. With his hand-painted photographs and videos he created his own personal iconography of the Egypt he loved, the Egypt that once was and he wishes to preserve. Inspired by cinema, it is an imaginary Egypt, yet...
ECCE HOMO
Winner of the 2016 Hasselblad Masters Awards, 24-year-old Slovakian Evelyn Bencicova divides her time between Vienna and Berlin and found a fine balance between aesthetic and conceptual. The secret? It is all about “fiction based on truth”. Evelyn, you were born in...
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
All is not what it seems in the work of Petros Chrisostomou. The British artist meticulously sculpts strangely familiar miniature worlds, only to blow them out of proportion again with the click of a camera. Petros, you are quite the global citizen: born in London, of...
THE MONUMENTAL BEAUTY OF A PUDDING
Arnout van Albada’s studio is his kitchen. The Dutch artist loves his food and loves to paint anything from raw vegetables and Spanish hams to sardines and cream cakes. Altough food is regarded a “vanity of vanities” Van Albada mainly aims to convey the monumental...
TOTAL REBIRTH OF COOL
Hassan Hajjaj gives you the Orient In all its warmth and colors. Yet his is not a nostalgic Orient that stood still in time. No, his orient has fully come to grips with modernity. His does not fear or resent it, but embraced and enriched it. Hassan talks about...
FOR THE LOVE OF LIZARDS AND LIGHT
Born in South Africa, Dean Bradshaw grew up in Australia where he spent much of HIS childhood catching lizards and other reptiles. Having obtained a degree in zoology, he worked as a field biologist before moving to California to become a full-time photographer known...
FOR THE LOVE OF AMERIKA!
Intoxicated with the iconography of modern day America, Nadia Lee portrays sultry housewives with 50s hairdos in neon-lit motels theaters to create a staged Lynch-like world, in which nothing is quite what it seems. Nadia talks about her background, inspirations and...