Art

July 15, 2025

Hyperrealistic Artist Reveals the Drawing He Almost Gave up on and What It Taught Him [Interview]

Hyperrealistic drawing combines technical skill and the determination to depict something exactly as the human eye sees it. While that alone is impressive, adding an element of surrealism makes it both technically awe-inspiring and stimulates our intellectual curiosity. South African artist Jono Dry creates drawings so masterfully hyperrealistic that you’d think they were photographs if not for their very surreal elements.

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July 13, 2025

20 Years of Vhils’ Exceptional Art Now on View in Retrospective Exhibition

Portuguese street artist Alexandre Farto, also known as Vhils, rose to fame thanks to his innovative technique of drilling portraits onto the surface of walls. Now, his career is being celebrated with a major exhibition at Munich's Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art (MUCA). Strata is a comprehensive look at Vhils' artistic production over the last two decades.

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July 10, 2025

Exquisite Wooden Sculptures Move Like Real-Life Computer Glitches

For three decades, Han Hsu Tung has managed to stop time. With his exquisite wooden sculptures, Tung freezes his subjects in mid-motion, pixelating limbs, faces, and entire bodies as if they’re buffering, awaiting the moment in which they may move once again. Recently, however, the Taiwanese artist has revisited how he represents movement entirely, opting instead to integrate it more literally. All Beings is one such sculpture.

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July 8, 2025

Artist Creates Dazzling Portrait by Layering Shattered Glass

Nestled in Basel’s De-Wette Park is something unexpected: several panes of glass, each shattered and irregularly stacked against a transport rack. Titled Morphogenesis, the installation is the latest from Swiss artist Simon Berger, who, for years, has manipulated glass through breaking, cracking, and hammering to produce dazzling and ephemeral portraits. Morphogenesis is no exception, and, as the artist himself says, marks a “new chapter in my exploration of glass as a medium.

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