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04.07.08 We love: Jamie Hayon Chanel Mobile Art - Chanel Contemporary Art Container by Zaha Hadid. CHANEL has decided to make the legendary quilted bag the focus of an event on an internatiponal scale, MOBILE ART. Just as fashion spreads througout the world, this travelling event will be presented in Asia, the USA and Europe. We love: Philips Design Probes -------------------------------------------- 30.06.08 Not only Die Gestalten is one of my fave bookshops online, they also feature some of the coolest interviews with the hipest designers and artists today. Don't miss their "Motion" session, it's definetely a bookmark! We love: Lucy & Bart -------------------------------------------- 10.06.08 For those who are in Como, Italy and surroundings, do not miss: Ricer(CO), an exhibition in collaboration with the professors Salvatore Nicola, Aldo Spoldi e Posca of the Fine Arts Academy of Brera with the following artists: Allen-Bortolotti Katherine, Bradinsky Ivan, Cavallo Rosa, Di Battista Margherita, Fiameni Ottavia, Fossati Alessia, Gjeci Eneida, Lipari Marta, Leoni Carlotta, Locatelli Laura, Lupi Martina, Mancini Laura, Mularo Dafne, Murè Federica, Patriarca Massimiliano, Piatti Claudia, Quagliati Noemi, Roncaglia Sebastiano, Savorani Giulia, Sonzogni Valentina e Sun-Woo Kim. Address: via Museo Giovo, 18 Como, Italy. -------------------------------------------- 26.05.08 New artist on the gallery: Andrew Holder, American illustrator and designer who enjoy creating with whatever he can get his hands on... -------------------------------------------- 19.05.08 New artist on the gallery: Katherinne Fiedler featuring a series lovely paintings ... delicate as watercolors. I'm in love with these girl's works... -------------------------------------------- 13.05.08 Drawings in the kitchen is a blog with lovely drawings on "Post It"® and on "Moleskine"® notebook by Guillaume Jolly and his friends in his kitchen in Paris...at any time of the day and night. -------------------------------------------- 21.04.08 We proudly present: "Some photos and words" by Aaron Ruell. Enjoy it! We love: Raster-Noton -------------------------------------------- 14.04.08 New artist on the gallery: Gabriel Leger explores his own vision of Russia, through archetypal characters, real people and still lifes. We love: Aaron Ruell -------------------------------------------- 04.04.2008 Check out Bjork’s highly anticipated “Wanderlust” music video! Over a year in the making, the video was a huge undertaking that involved the carefully orchestrated efforts of a massive crew. Directed by Encyclopedia Pictura with post-production handled by UVPHACTORY, the experience feels more like a short film than a simple music video. We love: Dirk Edwin Krechting -------------------------------------------- 17.03.2008 "Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today" is an exhibition that takes as its point of departure the commercial color chart, an item that openly delcares the status of color as mass-produced and standardized. Color Chart celebrates a paradox: the lush beauty that results when contemporary artists assign color decisions to chance, readymade source, or arbitrary system. MoMA, The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Exhibition Gallery, sixth floor (March 2 - May 12 2008). We love: Justen Ladda -------------------------------------------- 07.03.2008 Cai Guo-Qiang is internationally acclaimed as an artist whose creative transgressions and cultural provocations have literally exploded the accepted parameters of art making in our time. For those in NY, do not miss: "Cai Guo-Qiang: I want to believe" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim, until May 28th 2008, featuring Innoportune: Stage One, Cai’s largest installation to date, which presents nine real cars in a cinematic progression that simulates a car bombing, occupying the central atrium of the Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda. We love: Designboom's cut 'n' paste weblog. -------------------------------------------- 29.02.2008 Gelitin is a group of four male artists from Vienna, Austria. The group was formerly known as gelatin and changed their name in 2005. They are known for creating sensational art events in the tradition of Relational Aesthetics, often with a lively sense of humor. For those in Paris, don't miss: "La Louvre, Paris" by Gelitin from March 1st to April 20th at the Musée d´Art moderne de la Ville de Paris. -------------------------------------------- 28.02.2008 2Modern Design Talk is a consortium of designers, artists, innovators, furniture connoisseurs and regular, everyday people. Decor8 "Fresh finds for Hip Spaces" is another wicked design blog by the a writer and interior design consultant Holly Becker, check it out! -------------------------------------------- 26.02.2008 New artist on the gallery: We prodly present Christina Maria Oswald, German artist a.k.a. Chrischa, featuring the photographs from her "Being" series. You can also see her video performance on our video session. Genuine, intriguing and extremely beautiful. This girl is brilliant. Enjoy! -------------------------------------------- 22.02.2008 New artist on the gallery: Kim Cogan, Korean artist based in LA, check out his amazing paintings. This guy rocks! It's useless to mention the facrt ne can find so many amazing things on Flickr, although there is this special profile by Didier of Vernissage.tv which is one of the best photo sites for those who wants to know what's up in the most important artfairs in the world...big up to Didier! -------------------------------------------- 08.02.2008 We are flattered to announce our newest artist- team member, Lyle Owerko, American photographer whose work is part of our contemporary history. We are proudly featuring 6 photographs of the terrible disaster of September 11th 2001 - with the most respect for what had happened to those people's lives. New artist on the gallery: Anne Michaux, Berlin based artist who creates models, scenarios built predominantly by toys...the result is her beautiful photographs. -------------------------------------------- 20.01.08 n o k n o c k r o o m is proud to announce: "Arte Fiera Bologna 2008 special: Galerie Magda Danysz". -------------------------------------------- 27.12.07 Stephen Burks is one of the most recognized American industrial designers of his generation. He and his New York studio, Readymade Projects, have been responsible for creative design direction on projects ranging from retail interiors and events to packaging, lighting, furniture and home accessories... We love: Surface Mag, Frame Mag, dezeen -------------------------------------------- 18.12.07 Fragiles: Porcelain, Glass, Ceramics... an exhibition curated by Die Gestalten Verlag. [click to watch the documentary] New artists on the gallery: Jerome Icaro - French photographer based in Stockholm featuring an intriguing series of Polaroids. Beautifully pictorical! New artists on the gallery: Joris Vanpoucke - German young artist whose works are inspired by daily life in society. -------------------------------------------- 25.11.07 We love: Jacob Dahlgren, the Swedish painter, sculptor and conceptual artist. The Cartier Award 2007, for emerging artists living outside the UK, is a major initiative in collaboration with Gasworks and sponsored by Cartier. YOU, YOUNG ARTIST, DON'T MISS IT! -------------------------------------------- 05.11.07 We love: Thukral & Tagra. Based in New Delhi, Jiten Thukral (born 1976) and Sumir Tagra (born 1979) are among a new generation of young Indian artists. The duo work collaboratively in a wide variety of media including painting, sculpture, installation, video, graphic and product design, websites, music and fashion. New artist on the gallery: Tristan Pernet, wicked French illustrator and graphic designer, founder of the lovely illustration trio: DaPoneyClub. New artist on the gallery: Branislav Kropilak, Slovakian artist/photographer whose works have been featured by leading creative agencies such as BBDO, McCann-Erickson and Saatchi & Saatchi. -------------------------------------------- 16.10.07 Check out some of the Italian young artists who are defining the national contemporary art scene: Matteo Basilè, Stefano Cagol, Filippo Centenari, Giacomo Costa. Tangophoto.net is an international collective of photographers which are definetely worth a look at! -------------------------------------------- 26.09.07 Swerve Festival is a new annual festival dedicated to celebrating West Coast creative culture and its community inspired by art, film, music and action sports. The three-day celebration will be held in Los Angeles to bring together a dynamic group of innovators and thinkers and to spotlight some of the most exciting work to come out of these creative disciplines. One of noknockroom's artists, Nadia Micault, is participating to the Web Award category, check out her video "Justine is Doing Gymnastics" and don't hesitate to vote! -------------------------------------------- 25.09.07 Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall s one of the leading institutions of contemporary art in Sweden. The aim is to actively participate in contemporary culture by introducing and presenting artists and supporting artistic work. For the ones in lovely Sweden: wicked exhibition "To be continued..." from September 7th to December 9th 2007. We love: Eugenio Recuenco, the Spanish master of fashion photography. -------------------------------------------- 09.09.07 New artist on the gallery: Gi Myao, lovely fashion illustrator based in London whose works are featured on Die Gestalten's latest production Illusive 2 - check her out! We love: Maya Lin's Systematic Landscapes Lovely graphics on Swiss Legacy - an initiative by the French graphic designer Xavier Encinas (Rumbero Design), a collaborative blog focused on typography, swiss graphic design and grid. -------------------------------------------- 28.08.07 New artist on the gallery: Simon Peplow, British illustrator whose works have been featured on some of the coolest mags from all over the world... Characters are a fundamental part of his work. We love: Carsten Nicolai, the German artist/musican who uses electronic sound and visual art as a kind of hybrid- tool to create his own microscopic view of creative processes. His world looks more like a laboratory-constantly morphing in space and time, influenced by the impulses of this media world, sound - the message as a code - becomes, the primary theme via visualised sound performance. -------------------------------------------- 10.08.07 Hi everyone, I'm back in Italy! I was in London enjoying my first holiday since I've started working... it's crazy how hot it was for a British summer: 5 days of mad sun and blue sky...I couldn't ask for more! Not to mention I was lucky to be around for 1234 Shoreditch Free Festival, the Black Wire gig at 93 feat east, and the Architecture in Helsinki concert at Bar & Kitchen...alright, enough about my geeky-indie-music affairs...hope you all enjoy your holidays! New artist on the gallery: Thomas Zicola, French artist and photographer whose works are unbelievably beautiful, empty rooms have never been as inviting and warm... We love: Grafik Magazine -------------------------------------------- 19.07.07 Hey everyone, no knock room is being featured as 'Site of the Month' on the Webster section of PIG Mag of the July issue. PIG is a hipster magazine from Milan about fashion, music, technology and design - one of the coolest mags on young culture and latest trends. It's quite flattering for us, really! We love: Spencer Finch -------------------------------------------- 03.07.07 We are proud to present our newest artist: Oleg Dou from Moscow. Only 23 years old and already a master of graphics, photography and photo editing. An absolute promise in the arts... -------------------------------------------- 20.06.07 We're proud to present 'Vilains', a series of illustrations by the French graphic designer Xavier Brunet. A tribute to the monsters of the cinema from the 30's and the 40's. (We're also featuring one of his short films on our video section, click to watch 'L'ange boiteux'!) -------------------------------------------- 14.06.07 There's so much going on in Venice right now, and I'm not talking about the Biennale... save the date for "All in the present must be transformed: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys" - an outstanding exhibition by the Deutsche Bank & the Salomon R. Guggenheim Foundation now at the Peggy Guggenheim Colletion. Sweet paintings by Will Cotton - who wouldn't want to get lost in a candy forest or maybe in an ice cream cave? -------------------------------------------- 10.06.07 New artists on the gallery: Bastien Lattanzio, Paris based photographer, who also collaborates with some of the coolest French magazines, featuring some gorgeous portraits of the hypest artists of the electro French scene. Matt Irwin, London based photographer, editor of Eye-Spy at Dazed & Confused, featuring a series of fashion reportage. Morta Griskeviciute, 20 year-old Lithuanian artist, featuring 6 beautifully-harsh illustrations We'll soon showcase a series of her photographs as well, so keep tuned! -------------------------------------------- 31.05.07 Less Common is a London based free magazine that showcases the works of creative around the world. Check also their blog with tons of hot photos by Matt Irwin. -------------------------------------------- 29.05.07 The Chinese-American artist Terence Koh creates handmade books and zines, prints, photographs, sculptures, performances, and installations. He first gained notoriety for his website and zine titled asianpunkboy, which, in his own words, are “filled with an infusion of gentle surfaces, dissident eruptions, haikus, mapped pictures, dirty illustrations, moist cum, decadent artificial words, love and all manner of faggy filth.”. Once again, an amazing interview by the Vernissage.tv guys with the German designer, Luigi Colani. Currently the Design Museum London presents the first UK retrospective of Luigi Colani’s work in “Luigi Colani - Translating Nature” (March 3 - 17 June 2007). -------------------------------------------- 19.05.07 Updated profile: Veronica Dell'Agostino. New artist on the gallery: Nic Nichols, featuring some amazing photos of his the documentary projects in Maryland. We're proud to present "Hautnah---t", a video by the 22 year-old German artist Chrischa Oswald. Hautnah---t is a video-performance about physical and emotional pain and what goes beyong that... disturbingly beautiful. -------------------------------------------- 15.05.07 New artist on the gallery: the Belgian photographer, Charlotte Pasternak, featuring her beautiful backstage series... I simply love her work. -------------------------------------------- 06.05.07 New artist on the gallery: the Spanish, Aingeru Zorita featuring his “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters” series... an amazing critic and observation of post-modern society. -------------------------------------------- 02.05.07 We're proud to announce our newest artist: one of the greatest pioneers of Lowbrow art movement, Dirk Larsen, whose paintings are comic and extraordinary configurations of reality in which men become deformed monsters, rabbits and teddy bears and women... -------------------------------------------- 24.04.07 New artist on the gallery: Ephameron, a lovely Belgian illustrator who has just lauched "Love/Pain", an amazing book with some of her very best works... you can order it on Bries.be. --------------------------------------------- 23.04.07 Audrey Kawasaki and Stella Im Hultberg two artists with a very similar inspiration... Beautiful girls... together. --------------------------------------------- 22.04.07 Wear it with pride is an on going project., collaborating with a network of the most talented and internationally renowned designers, illustrators and graffitti artists. Check out the Two Faced project - awesome! Extraverage.net® is the portfolio of the Hungarian graphic designer Karoly Kiralyfalvi a.k.a. Drez - hot limited edition tees! The Red Bull Art of Can is a nationwide hunt for creativity and it's open to anyone! Check out the previous events gallery, there're some really awesome stuff! A major exhibition of Gilbert & George at the Tate Modern - you can also watch 4 wicked films where the artists talk about the exhibition and their work! --------------------------------------------- 19.04.07 AES + F is a Russian-Jewish art collective whose projects are based on a shocking visual quality that portrays the human body and its parts in a startling context, in relation to its environment or situation. Politically intriguing! Check out the "Last Riot". --------------------------------------------- 17.04.07 Today is my brother Sergio's birthday... Happy Birthday, little bro! Love you! I'm looking forward to seeing you in Brazil again! Lovely photography by Stephanie Solinas. Bless the French! Jeanspézial, a group of 7 French artists - absolutely amazing works, these guys rock! For those in NYC, you're still in time to see a major retrospective exhibition of Jeff Wall at the MoMA. --------------------------------------------- 16.04.07 Check out the photo archive of Studio Camuffo, a Venice based studio who promotes cultural projects. Truly cool works! --------------------------------------------- 15.04.07 New artist on the gallery: Paul Alexander Thornton, featuring some of his amazing patterns... --------------------------------------------- 09.04.07 New artist on the gallery, the Italian Rosario Memoli featuring his lovely series of fabric pieces on canvas... --------------------------------------------- 06.04.07 We are proud to announce our new featured artist, Caleb Weintraub. Caleb's paintings show an imaginary futuristic world in which good and evil are indistinguishable, there are no consequences and children turn against their parents and other adults... "Beautiful and disturbing, thoughtful and unthinkable, prophetic and profound." --------------------------------------------- 02.04.07 Gerda Steiner & Jorg Lenzlinger work together as a team. Together, the two artists design large installations with a number of different parts, creating miniature wonderlands that recount their stories with playful charm and an ironic twinkling of the eye. --------------------------------------------- 30.03.07 For those who are in Barcelona... don't miss the events at Iguapop Gallery, wicked concerts and exhibitions! High performance art, for the Audi TT launch in Australia. The TT contour is revealed only by the streamlines, a minimal abstraction of car laboratory scientific imaging. They created a software-based realtime wind tunnel to generate the HD video, an interactive wind-tunnel is currently in development. Concept and Art Direction by Matt Pyke, programming by Karsten Schmidt. Commissioned by The One Centre. Laurina Paperina's work is an ironic elaboration of the contemporaneity and on the identities which compose it... check out her other web project Pig Pig Pig, Free sex pictures - The best free site! --------------------------------------------- 27.03.07 New artist on the gallery: the Swedish, Anna Giertz featuring her delicate watercolors... --------------------------------------------- 25.03.07 Kaikai Kiki Co. was founded by Takashi Murakami in 2001, its goals as an enterprise include the production and promotion of artwork, the management and support of select young artists, general management of events and projects, and the production and promotion of merchandise. Kaikai Kiki is the first Japanese company looking to the future to develop and promote state-of-the-art contemporary artworks. New artist on the gallery: Françoise Nielly - check out her amazing portraits and all the exuberant, explosive colours! --------------------------------------------- 20.03.07 One of my very favourite photographers at the moment: Hannah Starkey. --------------------------------------------- 19.03.07 Comic Abstration, an exhibition that brings together 13 contemporary artists whose works offer a rich account of the interplay between abstraction and comic models of representation. From March to July 2007, an amazing exhibition at the MoMA, NY. BREAKING STEP, brings together new work by fifteen major figures of the British art scene. The exhibition is the culmination of a four-year collaboration between the British Council and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade... [read more] --------------------------------------------- 18.03.07 Kris Lewis is our featured artist of the week, check out his new paintings! --------------------------------------------- 16.03.07 N Y L O N is a motion graphics studio based in LA, check out their new stuff... and dont miss the music video for The Format, lovely paper/origami works in motion! --------------------------------------------- 14.03.07 Tyger is the new short film by the Brazilian illustrator and motion graphist Guillerme Marcondes - this guy is a genius! --------------------------------------------- 11.03.07 New artist on the gallery: Noumeda, Italy-based fashion illustrator. Absolutely beautiful. --------------------------------------------- 05.03.07 Everyone Forever and Matt Pyke's Universal Everything are one of my latest google discoveries, these websites are amazing! Maxalot Gallery is the ideal space to showcase graphic design as a contemporary art-form. Maxalot invites graphic artists who are trendsetters in the commercial industry to participate in creative projects... Paris Calling is an exciting new panorama of France’s vibrant contemporary art scene with more than 30 exhibitions and events of visual arts including painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video, fashion, architecture and design, in some of the best art centres and museums in and around London. We love: R&Sie(n) Architecture (François Roche and Stéphanie Lavaux), the Parisian architecture/art practise heavily focused on generative design and fab processes to create real world instances of their designs. We love: Rachel Whiteread, one of Britain's leading contemporary sculptors... *click to read about her work* We love: the latest work by the London-based French/Algerian artist Zineb Sedira, "Saphir" - it is a series of photographs and a two-screen video projection, shot in and around the port of Algiers... *click to read more* --------------------------------------------- 01.03.07 Updated profile: Kris Lewis' gorgeous new paintings. --------------------------------------------- 27.02.07 New artist on the gallery: Nick Hersey with his series of portraits of children from the favelas in Brazil. Genuine, beatiful and touching. --------------------------------------------- 26.02.07 I'm not only a big fan of David Shrigley's films but his drawings are simply great, check out his website, there're tons of good material. Fashion stencils? That's one of the ways to drescribe xoooox's works... --------------------------------------------- 25.02.07 No knock room's coverage on Arte Fiera Bologna is up! Wicked photos of the best of the Italian fair by Silvia Guizzi. Check it out! New artist on the gallery: the Italian illustrator Sara Molinaroli with her beautiful series of drawings... psychedelic dreamy. --------------------------------------------- 21.02.07 New artist on the gallery: the Swedish graphic designer Nicklas Hultman with his spicy series of porn cover ups. --------------------------------------------- 20.02.07 New artist on the gallery: Verena Chomet-Durin, French photographer whose series "Les coquetteries" questions and plays with gender and identity. --------------------------------------------- 18.02.07 Hans Kotter is one of the greatest emerging young talents of the German art scene, his installations explore places and their functions, creating light objects of melancholic and introspective beauty... --------------------------------------------- 15.02.07 Dots, dots, dots, dots, dots, dots, dots, dots, dots, dots, dots, dots, dots, dots, dots, dots, dots, dots, dots, dots, dots, dots, dots, dots, dots, forever dots by Yayoi Kusama. New artist on the gallery: Pierre Debroux, photographer from Brussels, featuring his Polaroids series described as fragments of stories which could belong to anyone... Beautiful colours. --------------------------------------------- 14.02.07 "Postmortem Bliss" a short film by Floria Sigismondi based on the book by Lilian Berlin. In homage to Rebel Without A Cause, Sigismondi recasts Nicholas Ray’s portrayal of the turbulence and pain of adolescence in a modern light. Today, institutions and their educators often diagnose these pains and confusions as a mental disorder. Postmortem Bliss is a film about the over-medicated, addicted, and misdiagnosed generation of today. (click to watch!) --------------------------------------------- 12.02.07 Hellovon is run by the London based illustrator Von. His work is heavily influenced by the world of music, fashion and design which executed with a seamless blend of traditional and digital mark making techniques. The result being striking and insightful illustrations with subtle narratives and a delicate and ethereal quality. Cosh is an online gallery shop where you can buy original art prints by cutting edge illustrators from around the world. They've just opened a wicked permanent gallery at 9 Berwick St (just off Oxford St), London. --------------------------------------------- 08.02.07 We're proud to present our new artist, James Roper, whose works can be also defined as 'Anime Abstracts', his Hypermass series are constructed using cut-outs sourced from Manga and Anime that are then reassembled to form a body built from a swarming mass of parts that either stretches across a monochrome void or engulfs the picture completely... --------------------------------------------- 05.02.07 New artist on the gallery: Matt W. Moore, from Portland, featuring his new series of psychodelic-vectors prints... mad colours, love it! --------------------------------------------- 01.02.07 Hans Op de Beeck, one of Belgium's most successful artists, has long plunged himself into the many facets of alienation and absurdity of past rampant post-modern urban existence, the artist now turns his attention to the interior. Hans Op de Beeck has created a collection of works that use the family and domestic surroundings as bearers of meaning. What does a deserted table say about the gathering that has just taken place? How does a child remind himself of a row at a family party? What can be read between the lines of cleanliness and propriety? To what extent are we all attached to domestic objects? When does a banal everyday object become the silent witness to a domestic drama? --------------------------------------------- 31.01.07 Poetic yet disturbing, bloody yet seductive. The Japanese photographer Izima Kaoru has been creating scenes of sophisticated violence and enchanting horror. He started his series "Landscapes with a corpse" when being chief editor of a Japanese fashion magazine. He invites models and actresses to pose as corpses, wearing expensive clothes. --------------------------------------------- 24.01.07 Our current featured artist, Paule Trudel, is a 21 year-old Canadian illustrator... her fashion sense is simply gorgeous, check out her work! We're proud to showcase Amparo Sard's works on noknockroom. Her works have been presented in the most prestigious art fairs in the world, one of her videos was purchased by the TATE gallery, her pinhole drawings are part of the MoMA's recent acquisitions... For those who are going to visit Art First* 2007 - Bologna - don't miss her works at the hall 21, stand B33. --------------------------------------------- 18.04.07 Our current featured artist is the British illustrator Joanna Henly, a.k.a. 'miss led'... lovely drawings - and she's up for portrait commissions, y'all! The works by the Spanish photographer, Eugenio Recuenco are stunning - the campaign for Nina Ricci's new fragrance is marvellous! Definetely one of my fave fashion photographers. --------------------------------------------- 17.04.07 Kinetica actively encourages the convergence of art and technology, providing an exhibition space in central London where the most important examples of kinetic, technological and electronic art, both past and present, can be properly stored and displayed. The Museum of Kinetic Electronic and Experimetal Art in located at the Old Spitalfields Market, East End, London. PixelRoller is a paint roller that paints pixels, designed as a rapid response printing tool specifically to print digital information such as imagery or text onto a great range of surfaces... this is freaking amazing! --------------------------------------------- 14.04.07 ARTEFIERA ART FIRST 2007 --------------------------------------------- 13.01.07 ANTI is a PDF magazine whose aim is to showcase outstanding visual content as an online magazine and also through future exhibitions all around the world... you can contribute by submitting your works at: antisubmission@gmail.com --------------------------------------------- 11.01.07 We're happy to announce our new featured artist, Simon Høgsberg, Danish photographer, whose works, also defined as "life-snaps", are just as exquisite as his concepts. You should totally check out "The Thought Project" and his website. --------------------------------------------- 10.01.07 It's been a long time since wooden sculptures impressed me this much! Check out the works by Willy Verginer and Gehard Demetz. --------------------------------------------- 08.01.07 Italian Area is a contemporary art archive of Italian artists. It's a truly great site for those who want to have an idea of the scene in Italy. Adorable bears and bunnies are placed in violently unfortunate and woefully hilarious circumstances... that's only one of the reasons that make the work of Luke Chueh stand out... --------------------------------------------- 05.01.07 Check out the works by the Italian artist & photographer, Massimo Vitali - disturbingly gorgeous. --------------------------------------------- 04.01.07 n o k n o c k r o o m is being featured on XL magazine, issue #17, January 2007. --------------------------------------------- 03.01.07 Peter Callesen, Danish artist, works with the retelling of fairy tales and creates a fragile universe imitating nature and transports the viewer into a temporal reality of magic and beauty. His cuts/sculptures inspired by fairytales and romanticism exploring the relationship between two and three dimensionality, between image and reality. Simply brilliant and unique. --------------------------------------------- 02.01.07 Bela Borsodi's award-winning editorial and advertising photography is truly exploratory, combining unexpected still-life elements with fashion, styling and set design. Objects come to life in his playful fashion stories. New Photographers 2007 - "Gathered by a curatorial team of creatives from around the world, it's a list of the individuals we believe will change advertising imagery in 2007 and for years to come. A list of the talent that may challenge us, that may move us, but, above all, that will reach us." (Getty Images) --------------------------------------------- 01.01.07 FriendsWithYou is a project by Sam Borkson and Tury Sandoval, they filled the skies with 18 colossal art dirigibles for the SKYWALKERS blimp parade at Art Miami/Basel... awesome! The Magazine Room is a room set up in the foyer of the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, it gives the visitor a review on current magazines on contemporary art, architecture and design. With immediate effect, more than 90 magazines from 18 countries are free accessible to all visitors during our opening hours. Zoren Gold & Minori push the boundaries of classical photography with their spellbinding imagery. The Tokyo-based duo’s work begins with surrealistic photographs, which they then expand upon and remake by using modern composition and digital editing techniques. *click to watch the interview by Die Gestalten* --------------------------------------------- 31.12.06 Happy New Year, everyone! The sculptures, two-dimensional pieces, videos, installations and performances by the Czech artist, Jiri Cernicky, have generated considerable controversy and acclaim in his homeland... Pegasus Semtex is one of my favourites. Check out the installations and sculptures by the Danish artist, Jeppe Hein, presented at the Galleri Nicolai Wallner of Copenhagen... with this series, Jeppe Hein shows the modularity of space by constructing and deconstructing it. Combining sculpture and installation with architecture and technology, he sets up a dialogue between work, viewer and site. Interactive in the truest sense of the word freed of any dubious connotations, Hein's work involves the physical presence of the viewer set against a pattern of minimal forms (read more). --------------------------------------------- 28.12.06 The 2006 Revue, a retrospective with some of the coolest happenings, events, etc., in the art world in 2006. What a year it was... --------------------------------------------- 27.12.06 Zaha strikes again! The architect superstar, Zaha Hadid, wins the concours for the realization of the new Mediterranean Museum of Nuraghic and Contemporary Art of Cagliari, Italy. Check out the project! Download the zip with the photos! Click to watch the impressions from the solo show by Jeff Soto featuring "Cold Ice Age", Soto's new series of paintings and pannels at BLK/MRKT Gallery, Los Angeles. (video by VTV) Kirsten Krüger’s spatial sculptures are arranged pictures which irritate and captivate reason and eye by their unreal colours and strange materials vacillating between artificiality and naturalness. Nature becomes artificial and art becomes natural. Body, nature, object, material, colour – everything mutates, everything is in metamorphosis. Katja Flieger's installations are an abstract set of rules from the road networks onto the human body system. With this the artist questions the way of thinking, allowing us, for example, to travel without a destination. --------------------------------------------- 26.12.06 New video: "Let it rain" by Dutch filmmaker, Ton Meijdam - Let it rain is an animation film about the life of the 19th century poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine. To know more about the movie, read the synopsis. Art Prostitute is a great online store, you can find some wicked exhibition posters, check out this print set of Dave Kinsey's solo show in Dallas. If you're still looking for a perfect arty gift, you can find loads of cool and affordable prints at we*heart*prints, check out Daddy's girl by Michael Hussar! --------------------------------------------- 23.12.06 Merry Christmas everyone! We'll be away for a few days, but we'll make sure to reply all the emails as soon as we're back! Enjoy the holidays... --------------------------------------------- 15.12.06 Featured artist: Michael Robert Williams, the guy behind the coolest indie rock bands... his portraits will definetely be in the history of rock! --------------------------------------------- 14.12.06 The self proclaimed "Hermaphrodite Twins from the Future", EVA & ADELE, have become celebrities as "living art"... the artists appear at museum openings and major art expositions arrayed in identical dazzling feminine costumes, shaved heads and glittering make-up, fusing together art and life and challenging our ideas about art, gender and sexual identity... Check out the "Wave Optics" series of the Greek artist Eleni Christodoulou - awesome! VernissageTV is a video-blog that takes you to opening receptions of exhibitions and events. VernissageTV provides insight to the social side of the art world, it's an absolutely great site to watch interviews with aritsts, curators, designers... and view the coolest events. --------------------------------------------- 13.12.06 New artist on the gallery: Betty Alazraki's work is a genuine combination of irony, tragic sarcasm and pop culture. Definetely one of my favourites! --------------------------------------------- 11.12.06 W+K Tokyo Lab's videos are truly rad!! Tokyo Lab is a new music label concep, their mission is to bring new experiences that can only be created in Tokyo through a unique global mix of music, visuals, and other forms of creative expression through a DVD and CD. source: cpluv.com New artist on the gallery: Carmine Silenziario from Salerno, Italy --------------------------------------------- 09.12.06 Guillaume Jolly's website is up! Guillaume is a French artist and filmmaker and he's also known as Mamie Denise lil' grandson. Check out his videos! --------------------------------------------- 07.12.06 New artist on the gallery: Miriam Ivanoff, from Sweden, her illustrations on cardboard are one of the coolest works I've seen in a long time, love it! --------------------------------------------- 06.12.06 New artist on the gallery: Ronald Brul, brilliant photographer from Holland, his portraits are pure figurative poetry... --------------------------------------------- 29.11.06 New artist on the gallery: Eric Gibbons from Ohio... his paintings have the most beautiful dreamy colours. --------------------------------------------- 28.11.06 "The present History" is an amazing book with the work of over 25 artists from around the world collaged into new works by Australian based art collective, "The Contextual Villains". Check out their project! --------------------------------------------- 27.11.06 New artist on the gallery: Jessica Joslin constructs intricate mixed-media creatures, truly exquisite sculptures! --------------------------------------------- 26.11.06 New artist on the gallery: Mr. Mucho from Oslo, Norway... awesome mosaics and crazy moving sculptures, check it out! --------------------------------------------- 24.11.06 Amazing French illustrator added on the gallery: Julien Pacaud - he's also our featured artist of the week. --------------------------------------------- 22.11.06 Art or pornography... how would you define the new works by John Currin? The exhibition is at the Gagosian Gallery (980 Madison Avenue, New York, NY) until December 22nd.If you love paper works, check out these amazing origami by Cecilia Cotton, it's great what one can casually find on Stumble! --------------------------------------------- 18.11.06 New illustrator on the gallery: Nazario Graziano, italian graphic designer - elegant contemporary style. --------------------------------------------- 17.11.06 New video added!! "Kapitaal" is a multi award winner by the dutch trio of Studio Smack: Ton Meijdam, Thom Snels, Béla Zsigmond. Truly amazing! Check it out! --------------------------------------------- 12.11.06 Updated profile on the gallery: Alexandre Dalivoust, fashion photographer based in Paris. --------------------------------------------- 11.11.06 New artist on the gallery, Dwayne Wolff from Denver (CO). --------------------------------------------- 10.11.06 New illustrator on the gallery, Lysian Geay, check it out! --------------------------------------------- 09.11.06 Simone Racheli's sculptures are so freaky! You can see it "live" until November 31st at Paolo Maria Deanese gallery in Rovereto (Italy). --------------------------------------------- 07.11.06 In the mood for contemporary photography? Hard not to love the works by the dutch artist Ellen Kooi. We just added a new video by Dorothée Sorbier, french graphic designer and videomaker, on our video session!--------------------------------------------- 03.11.06 For those who are in Germany this weekend, don't forget to step by Art fair Cologne. Special attention to Claudia Rogge's Uniform series of photographs (Diasec) at the Galerie VOSS stand. --------------------------------------------- 01.11.06 New artist on the gallery: Onze, amazing illustrator from Rome, Italy. Design Addict is a wicked project by Patrick and Alix Everaert about 20th-21st centuries design. You can browse one century of design by designers, producers and objects with related books, links, events, biographies and history. no knock room is being featured on the newsboard of Kaliber 10000 - one of my biggest sources of inspiration on the internet whatsoever! Quite flattering, a great way to start the month! (posted by Bia) --------------------------------------------- 27.10.06 Speaking of amazing motion graphics, you can also read a great interview with, the brazilian animation powerhouse, Lobo regarding their new project with Dupont. The work of the Brazilian graphic artist and designer Nando Costa is definetely an inspiration for whoever is getting into the motion graphic field... For those who still haven't watched the new Sony Bravia advert, come and take a look, it's absolutely brilliant! Karma Ghost cartoon by Billy Blob, Sundance film festival winner for animation. Simple and funny! --------------------------------------------- 25.10.06 New artist on the gallery: Angela Beloian, from Denver (CO). --------------------------------------------- 23.10.06 PingMag, a Tokyo-based magazine about design and art, has got great reviews about what's up in Japan... and the best thing is, the site is all in English! Dreaming of art? The rooms of the Arte Luise Kunsthotel in Berlin are simply gorgeous... --------------------------------------------- 22.10.06 Marie Blanchard, french artist and illustrator, has just launched a lovely blog, every month 7 artists are featured: Shining Magazine --------------------------------------------- 20.10.06 We start our news/links board with the two most important websites regarding the art world of today, we totally recommend: Artnet.com has a great News page, for those who want to know what's happening in the art world today... biennals, art fairs, and art news in general. It's a "bookmark" must! Artforum.com has an amazing guide with a huge list of the most significative art galleries and events from all over the world. We are finally up! I hope you enjoy what has been done so far, remember the site is on constant updates! This is only the beginning... We also got a MySpace profile, feel free to add us: www.myspace.com/noknockroom |