FRRRESH Visual arts magazine Fourth issue
Greetings
and welcome to issue no. 4 of Frrresh mag! A free online magazine that features talented visual artists from planet Earth. This issue is our biggest so far with 15 amazing artists from all around the globe and a whooping 150 pages! We would like to thank you, the readers for being so wonderful and supportive, but also the artists themselves who continue to surprise us with every issue.
Artists featured in this issue Živko Kondić Zoran Pungerčar Džedaj Davor Gromilović Mar Hernández (Malota) Luka Jelušić andrea resner Marko Prpić ZETS Alison Scarpulla Muxxi Oko Brahmino Chop Suey Tomas Nilsson Erin Paisley
Enjoy the magazine and stay frrresh!
Živko Kondić My name is Živko Kondić, I’m 27, and I’m a visual artist based in Novi Sad, the capital of Serbian province of Vojvodina. I go under “zhille” and “zhillustrator” in my online presence. My passions are mostly art, design and music related, and I’ve been happily in a relationship with those interests for years now. I also enjoy a good sci-fi book, quality humor/satire, science and nature. I love animals and I’m a big cat-person that unfortunately doesn’t have a cat. Also, I’m an atheist, a humanist, and a rational skeptic. My artistic style tends to be very non-figurative non-objective, geometric, abstract and angular. I prefer dynamically angled composition, and I often use a limited range of value/color. Improvisation is a very important aspect to my work, as I tend to just start an illustration/drawing/painting and see where it gets me. I often make completely unrelated art, not sticking to one pattern a lot. Some of these choices and ways of handling everything reflect upon my more objective and non-abstract digital concepts and digital art in general. People tend to see a distinct touch of mine in all of those different pieces of art/design, at least I’ve been told. Currently, I am employed as a visual artist in a small game studio called Yellow Quince, based in Novi Sad, Serbia, where I am doing all kinds of different work. Having a versatile skill set has proved to be useful. I do occasional freelance illustration and design work as conditions allow.
https://www.facebook.com/zhillustrator http://zhille.tumblr.com http://be.net/zhille
Zoran Pungercar
Zoran Pungercar lives and works in Ljubljana. When not drawing or painting, he also runs small zine label Look Back and Laugh with his friend Rok.
www.zoranpungercar.com
beautifulchildren.tumblr.com
Džedaj Džedaj is a pseudonym for a young, creative and silly artist from Rijeka that mostly do street art, painting, graphic design, music, photography and burek. Originally from Županja, the place where art or any other form of creative work is sentenced to death, but currently living and studying so-called Academy Of Applied Arts in Rijeka, this extraordinary dude mixes randomness and sillyness with any form of art he’s interested at the moment of artistic enlightenment. He’s heavily influenced by 60s psychedelic posters, ornamental and tattoo work of ancient civilizations, impressionism, art noveau, potato and your mom.
www.facebook.com/pages/artikuliranje/291224060941587?fref=ts
DAVOR GROMILOVIC
Graduated in Painting at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad in 2010, also completing a Master degree in Drawing in 2012. He has had an active career exhibiting since 2008, having 7 solo exhibitions and participating in more than 30 group shows in Serbia and abroad. Apart from exhibitions, where he mostly shows his drawings and paintings, he does t-shirt designs, album covers, concert posters as well as animation and short feature films. He has had interest in fanzine since his teenage years, published his solo fanzines and collaborated with many international artists. His work has been published in numerous art magazines and several books. Since 2009, he has done a number of murals, with a special mention on his work in Youth Center Ck13 in Novi Sad, Serbia.
www.gromilovic.com gromilovic@gmail.com
Mar Hernรกndez (Malota)
I am a landscape architect and a woodworker. Large part of my work is done in reclaimed wood. Working on wood that is hundred or three hundred years old means a kind of a journey through time. Planing surface layers of wood, which are cracked because of long years of exposure to atmospheric agents, reveals deep honey shade of old oak so much different from the ‘new’ wood. Furthermore, planing reveals also cracks and traces of human hands - the trace of a nail hammered by someone, or a hit of an axe by farmer so that the plaster could be stuck easier to the house walls. These tracks are inerasable and they continue to live in my pieces in a subtle way: it can take years of owning a piece to get to know them.
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andrea resner
just a child that means well. walking around in golden shoes. looking for a place to dance to the rhytm of the wind. and some birds to sing along.
www.andrearesner.com blackteethturnwhite.tumblr.com www.flickr.com/photos/blackteethturnwhite
Marko Prpic ZETS Marko Prpic – Zets was born in Zagreb in nineteenseventy-eight. Since mid nineties his presence can be felt on Zagreb graffiti scene. In 2002 with his friend and colleague Marko Rukavina he started Boonika, a project who’s aim was to connect artists and designers from the region with their peers from abroad. In 2007 he graduated at the Faculty of Textile Technology in Zagreb. Since 2004 he is a professional member of Croatian Designers Society. In 2010 he became a member of the Croatian Freelance Artists’ Association. He had exhibited in group and solo in country and abroad. So far he worked with small and big studios and advertising agencies. For Nukleus CA and Unex (Euro RSCG) he worked as a Designer and Senior Designer following with a position of an Art Director at Momentum (McCann Erickson). He is currently involved with Boonar Studio, yet another Boonika project, which he started with couple of fellow freelancers – Boonar is the first art&design studio ever in this region made exclusively out of freelancers. Except for Boonar, there is a number of other Boonika projects Marko is involved with.
www.facebook.com/boonika.net
zetsology.com
boonar.com
boonika.net
Alison Scarpulla As I grow. Expand. My quest, grows. To expand. Within, The unanswered. Mystery is beauty.
http://shuttermade.com/alisonscarpulla
is an illustrator and character designer based in Guatemala City. Her work is a combination of imaginary worlds filled with magical and colorful creatures. While she was studying the Graphic Design career she started working as an illustrator. Everything began as a hobby playing with sketches every day until her unique style started to attract important clients and fans around the world. She focuses on creating a very solid style at the same time making herself a name in the illustration scene. From digital illustrations to murals, she has been growing as an artist, participating in exhibitions, magazines, books and several other projects.
facebook.com/Iammuxxi
twitter.com/muxxi
muxxi.tumblr.com
www.muxxi.me
Instagram: @muxxi
dream
a bigger dream
http://3oko.blogspot.com/
http://oko176.tumblr.com/
BRAHMINO
Telling stories, mixing your cultural references with my scent. Man / Daddy / Art Director Bologna, Italy. http://cargocollective.com/simonebramante
Chop Suey
Hello, my name is Ana (aka Chop Suey) I am 21 years old and I am a design student from Mexico. In my free time I do a bunch of silly doodles and paintings. I can’t start anything if I don’t sketch first. I define my drawing as girly and fun but weird. Illustration is my boyfriend.
facebook.com/soychopsuey
Tomas Nilsson Ok. Some basic information. My name is Tomas Nilsson. I am 31 years old, born and raised in Dalarna, Sweden, which is in the forest. I am living in Stockholm, with my beautiful wife and my newborn daughter. I recently graduated from Konstfack- University college of Arts Crafts and Design, where I studied graphic design and Illustration. There are several things that inspire me of course, I like to talk about inspiration, but skateboarding is the main inspiration source. I have been skateboarding for about 14 years. I like wood, chairs, colored paper and pencils and markers that live their own lives. Some other projects I am involved in are Smudspepp and Vold. I am also working part time at the museum of modern art here in Stockholm. And I like to draw. I like to mix figurative and abstract shapes, looking for new compositions. I like to follow the line, see where it takes me. Always an adventure when the pen meets the material.
tomtyve.se tomtariminskalle.blogspot.se smudspepp.tumblr.com hollyvold.blogspot.se
Erin Paisley Mother of two, wife of one, wants to learn how to do everything. Always making stuff in Milwaukee, WI USA.
www.facebook.com/erinpaisley.art statigr.am/erinpaisley erinpaisley.com
Name your favorite...
Živko Kondić
Džedaj Zoran Pungercar
...super hero
I must disappoint all you superhero lovers out there, I actually am not a fan of superhero stuff, especially now, with all those crap superhero movies ruining it for me further.
...weird dream
No heroes. But if I have to choose, Clint Eastwood circa ‘64
Dylan Dog
I don’t dream a lot, or I just don’t remember. I never had an actual nightmare, for example, that’s weird. :) When I dream, I dream nice.
I rarely remember my dreams
The one in which friend showed me infamous video “Obedece A La Morsa” years before I even actually saw it.
...ice cream flavour
Just give me something I haven’t tried before.
hazelnut
Cambodia Sunday Morning Chocolate
...piece of clothing
I like to wear something army/camo, most often pants, in combination with a single-color t-shirt.
my grey BC shirt
T-shirt with awesome graphic
...movie
I don’t exhibit any particular interest in movies. Not my cup of tea. Though, I like animated movies and cartoons.
So hard to pick one out, but last movie that really impressed me was Marathon Man
Wristcutters : A Love Story
andrea resner
Mar Hernández (Malota)
Davor Gromilovic
The real super hero for me is Keith Haring
Bloody hell, there’s a lot of dreams and there’s always something weird about them.
Normal people that make this a better world
All my dreams are pretty weird but I quickly forget my dreams
Bat Nonno (see Foto Marvellini)
I dream of cities in strange places. City as a gigantic tube through the canopies of the trees in the jungle, city as a series of connected platforms on a steep vertical rock, city as a musical instrument…
captain planet
i had an affair with a bear that owned a library under the sea
The BIG classic PUNCH.
Moka
I am not that fond of ice cream
lime and basil
Sneakers
Any that takes away the cold and makes me feel good
Shoes, if that qualifies as clothing
fringe sleeve t-shirt
Coen brothers’ movies
lately it’s been all about westerns and woody allen movies
From Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez to the movies like Fingered, The Holy Mountain, etc...
Can’t pick one... sorry, too many
Marko Prpić ZETS
Muxxi Alison Scarpulla Anyone who stands up for the benefit of our environment, human rights & freedom. Anyone who is a kind & loving person.
My super boyfriend, he is super at everything he does!
I really can’t talk about this
Life
Giant rocks following me.
Walnut... or something
Mint chocolate chip - with basil.
Cherry
Chocolate
100% cotton socks
A very worn, thin old t-shirt with holes all over it that say “Don’t shoot I’m human” on the back.
Oversized blouses
black hoodie
Where the wild things are
life of pi/ blade runner/ fight club/indiana jones
Not sure I have one
The Intouchables
The Holy Mountain, Rivers & Tides Working With Time
hm.. spawn/batman
figuring out that im awake sometimes
Brahmino
Tomas Nilsson
Erin Paisley
Chop Suey anyone who silently fights for human rights.
1 Superman or Hancock I don’t have any
be immersed in a warm lake, with the feeling of being dry. *_*
On one occasion I was dreaming that I was pregnant and my belly was a huge eggshell.
pistachio from Bronte, Sicily
PISTACHIO <3
2 One that I
remembered from my childhood. there was two stones and a bit of grass. Nothing else, then the two stones started to grow, one faster than the other. They grew and they grew, but never out from the screen. It felt that I was watching a tv screen of some sort. a big one. Still feel very weird when I think about it, but I haven’t dreamt it since then.
3 Champagne sorbet,
Wolverine
When I was 16 I had a dream I made this beautiful white porcelain Bull in a charging stance, and painted on the body was a Bull Fighting scene
Mint chocolate chip
lemon liquorice, raspberry, Baileys, there is so many
4 At the moment my
Suspenders
skirts & boots
“The new world” by Terrence Malick
it might be Little Miss Sunshine
jacket, it’s from my sister’s husband, some sort of mix between a jacket and a blazer but in corduroy, not the thick one, but the fine one. It fits to everything. It’s an old Melka, maybe from the seventies. I don’t know
5 Big Lebowski- simply the best movie ever
Every dress I own that I get compliments on are pajamas. Seriously. It’s not what you wear, it’s how you wear it. I’m living proof. And I’m really comfortable
A Boy Named Charlie Brown
Photos and text: courtesy of each author Editors: Rafael Milcic and pekmezmed Contact: frrresh.mag@gmail.com