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penccil: This was 2017

The penccil year in review is a project selection for 2017, this year curated by Mario Gagliardi. Se...

serpentine 2017

exhibition, schauspiel köln, cologne. steelobjects, ceramic reliefs.

BS1

temporary accessible sculpture.

Functional Pasta

Pasta based on the geometry of a Möbius strip, a geometric surface with the distinction of having o...

Wayne Sorce: Urban Color

"Wayne Sorce: Urban Color" is on view from October 21st through November 30th at Joseph Bellows Gall...

The wall

photography and theoretical project about the The seperation wall between Israel and the west bank

Swiernalis

Polish alternative musician Swiernalis

Franz Kline

Around 1950, Franz Kline radically simplified painting: “Instead of making a sign you can read, yo...

Jeff Zimmerman

Jeff Zimmermann is a Chicago based artist. Born in Kentucky, Zimmerman spent his childhood among nat...

Home Patterns

“Home Patterns” is a new series of patterns by Longstory, designed for printing on textiles, wal...

The Menu

The food menu as we know it today is an invention of the 19th century. Traditionally, during a meal ...

American Food

Davide Luciano is a New York based conceptual food and beverage photographer and motion artist. His ...

Food Architecture

Food dal cucchiaio al mondo: Works of artists and architects who deal with the global political, soc...

Franz De Lacroix

Model: Franz De Lacroix / Average is Boring Photographer: Paulina Wyszynska

Struth: Nature & Politics

Thomas Struth´s work shows us highly complex equipment, structures and constructions. His pictures ...

Heartbeat, Heartseat

Heartbeat consists of a massive heart glowing to the rhythm of a strong, deep and low frequency hear...

This City

This City is an audio-visual piece performed as musical alter-ego Mark Eats. It explores what happen...

Obsolete Distinction

In contemporary society, the digital world pervades the physical to such an extent that any distinct...

L’ITALIA CI GUARDIA

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the birth of the Italian Republic, 40 masters of photogra...

The Glass House

"This house was Philip Johnson's autobiography—all of his interests were visible, and all of his a...

Design & Politics

Photo series "design and politics" by Philippe Jarrigeon, photographer and publisher, born in 1982 i...

The Oily Actor

“I had been looking around these ideas of systemic crisis, global financial crisis, which is what ...

Julius Shulman: Visual Drama

"Julius had an eye for visual drama. With modernist buildings, he loved capturing the strong lines s...

72 dpi

Images on the Internet are changing our lives. While images were once only reserved for a certain fe...

Tea Time

TEA AVE es una marca Canadiense de Tés Oolong. Nos pidieron el desarrollo de la imagen gráfica, la...

Memories of Ruins: Rebecca Bathory

Finding beauty in darkness, poetry and meaning in the forgotten and surreal, imaginary worlds amongs...

Standing wave Sculpture

Standing wave morphology by Gabriel Kelemen 1995

Jewelry Design Art

Jewelry Art design pattern inspired from nonlinear dynamics. Drawings collection about fluid flows...

Toshio Onda

Japanese Fashion photographer Toshio Onda studied at the University of West England. He lives in Par...

Rayan Ayash

Rayan Ayash is a Fashion Photographer based in New York & Paris.

Palmyra, End of March, 2016

Palmyra. City of Mesopotamia, city of the Phoenicians, of the Assyrians, the Greeks, the Persians, a...

The end of history - La fin de l´histoire

"Belief in progress is irresistible. In flattering the eye it blinds us. Standing in the middle of t...

Blast

Naoya Hatakeyama was born in 1958 in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Hatakeyama, a student of Kiyoji Otsuji...

Bring the outside in: The houses of Joseph Eichler

“Eichlers,” as they are referred to in California, are midcentury modern tract homes developed b...

Man. Kiki. Lee.

The muses of Emmanuel Radnitzky (Man Ray) "All I need is an onion, a bit of bread, and a bottle of ...

Conformity

“Modern man has become a cog in a very complex society. We live in a society that praises individu...

Uncanny Bodies

There is a space of imagination stretching between brain, lens and body: Photography by Ariana Molly...

Trees in Winter

A series utilizing random patterns in nature to reveal mathematical beauty, by Ansen Seale.

Alain Georges Frank Jacquet

Alain Georges Frank Jacquet was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1939. After studying drama at the Unive...

Observatoires

Noémie Goudal is a French artist who graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2010 with an MA in ...

Erwin Poell: Naturwissenschaft + Technik

Erwin Poell (1930) is a German graphic designer. From 1951 he studied with Walter Brudi at the State...

Mass, space, plane and line

"The essence of architecture is the interrelation and interaction of mass, space, plane and line. Th...

E. Hu

Eric Hu is an art director based in New York. He previously worked as the design lead at OKFocus. Er...

Function Follows Form

Formlab is a series of photos generated by an ongoing process for inspiration, random objects are co...

Nauru

Nauru was first inhabited at least 3,000 years ago. Inhabitants caught ibija fish, acclimatised them...

SCHNAPPVIECHER

The Krampus in Salzburg, Austria was the first beast Charles Fréger encountered during his two-yea...

Superheroes

Paola Mathe, born in Petionville, Haiti, lives and works in New York City. She holds a BA in econom...

German Painting after the 1960s

What is so 'German' about the art made by German painters and sculptors after the 1960s to now? The ...

The contemporary condition

Fred Guillaud (France, 1973) is photographer, architect and teacher. He lives and works in Barcelon...

Orange mecanique

Philippe Jarrigeon, photographer and publisher, was born in 1982 in France. He graduated from ECAL ...

"I’m an outsider"

Born in New York City in 1928, William Klein studied sociology while enrolled at City College of New...

Sadamitsu Neil Fujita

Sadamitsu Fujita was born in Waimea, Hawaii to Japanese immigrants. He attended boarding school in H...

Stan Galli

Illustrator Stan Galli (1912 - 2009) attended the California School of Fine Arts and was recruited a...

Spacecraft

Raised in Maryland, Nicholas Alan Cope moved to Los Angeles in 2004 and attended Art Center College ...

Josef Sudek

Josef Sudek (b. March 17, 1896, Kolin, Bohemia – d. September 15, 1976) was a Czech photographer, ...

Mirrors

Jeannette Montgomery Barron was born in 1956 in Atlanta and studied at the International Center of P...

Charles Negre

Charles Negre is an independent studio photographer living and working in Paris.

constructing meaning in 3 steps

Frank Hülsbömer was born 1968 in Münster/Germany.

Iraq

Photojournalist Luke Wolagiewicz lives in London. Over the last 15 years he has worked across the Mi...

The Way Of The Light

Vasa Mihich studied at the Academy of Applied Arts, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Mihich has l...

The 2015 best of penccil

This was an extraordinary year. The world went through a series of shocks and shake-ups, and in betw...

Radebaugh and Bohn

Arthur C. Radebaugh (1906-1974) was an American illustrator, airbrush artist, and designer. Some of...

The Other Side

There's always another side, other stories and new faces behind the glamorous curtains of the fashio...

Spatial Objects

Spatial Objects is the result of Dan Holdsworth’s ongoing enquiry into contemporary photographic p...

CHROMAesthesiae

CHROMAesthesiae is a landscape of color populating space in high contrast-gradated clusters. This in...

Hello Winter

Hello winter . A small selection of landscape photography made in the Atlantic islands of Azores dur...

Silent Geography

Silent Geography is a site-specific installation consisting of Hazard's torn paper constructed lands...

Ankara: From pioneering modernism to revivalist mimicry

Ankara: Öncü modernizmden öykünmeci mimesise Murat Germen is an artist using photography as an ...

UN_NATURAL BESTIARY

In this work Andrea Alessio collects, as in an ancient bestiary, a series of animal images. The fore...

ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN

I would like to introduce this new series of photos by Andrea Alessio by appealing to an axiom that ...