Minjae Lee is a young South Korean artist whose work expresses a semi-disturbing inner tension that is tough to ignore, even if you feel that you’d like to. It draws you in with its powerful colours, halting imagery and clever juxtaposition of beauty, innocence and fragility with brash, loud and aggressive.

The 19-year old artist is mainly self-taught and uses old-fashioned tools — such as markers, pens, crayons, acrylics — to create his illustrations. He has yet to break into commercial success, but as his style is developing and improving each time new images appear, we will likely see a lot of him in the future.

What characterizes his work overall is drama. The ethereal females that populate most of his work exude a dark, organic tension, and it seems that even the brightest marker colors do not quite manage to save them from some sort of looming peril. Or are we, the viewers, in fact, the ones who are in danger? Whatever the case, we are drawn in, interacting on an emotional level, surprised, looking for something. [TheCoolHunter.co.uk]

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We continue our curiosity with bicycle art.. Here is the latest installation by the activist Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. This piece is one of 21 works by Ai from 1983 to present that form the “Ai Weiwei Absent” exhibition, opened at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum at the end of October.“Forever Bicycles” is made of 1,000 bicycles installed in a 10-meter high space in a moving, abstract shape to symbolize the way in which the social environment in China is changing.Ai Weiwei is known for example for his cooperation with Swiss architects Herzog & Meuron as the consultant for the 2008 Beijing Olympics Birds Nest building.Ai is prohibited from leaving Beijing and cannot attend the exhibition. In a Reuters article, Ai was quoted as saying: “This is the first time I’m having an exhibition of my art works in the wider Chinese world. I’m really happy that it can be exhibited in Taiwan, because recently it has not possible to have an exhibition in my own place of residence. I have been notified that I won’t be allowed to go — that was the outcome of my application — so right now I cannot attend. But my family members will attend.” - Bill Tikos

We continue our curiosity with bicycle art.. Here is the latest installation by the activist Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. This piece is one of 21 works by Ai from 1983 to present that form the “Ai Weiwei Absent” exhibition, opened at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum at the end of October.

“Forever Bicycles” is made of 1,000 bicycles installed in a 10-meter high space in a moving, abstract shape to symbolize the way in which the social environment in China is changing.

Ai Weiwei is known for example for his cooperation with Swiss architects Herzog & Meuron as the consultant for the 2008 Beijing Olympics Birds Nest building.

Ai is prohibited from leaving Beijing and cannot attend the exhibition. In a Reuters article, Ai was quoted as saying: “This is the first time I’m having an exhibition of my art works in the wider Chinese world. I’m really happy that it can be exhibited in Taiwan, because recently it has not possible to have an exhibition in my own place of residence. I have been notified that I won’t be allowed to go — that was the outcome of my application — so right now I cannot attend. But my family members will attend.” - Bill Tikos

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Cate Parr. Fashion Illustrator. Watercolor painting is among the most challenging techniques to master. Cate Parr is an exception to that challenge, she is a UK-born Fashion illustrator that manages to utilize watercolors and effectively create dream-like feminine images that portray two sides to each subject.  

Cate Parr. Fashion Illustrator.

Watercolor painting is among the most challenging techniques to master. Cate Parr is an exception to that challenge, she is a UK-born Fashion illustrator that manages to utilize watercolors and effectively create dream-like feminine images that portray two sides to each subject.  

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Getting Back To Nature TheCoolHunter.co.uk premiers an exceptional photographic journey through the some of the world’s most elite natural phenomenons. The mission behind getting back to nature is driven influenced by the New York Highline, which reclaimed an old industrial structure for new recreational uses.  These images will inspire even the most stubborn of city dwellers to revisit the beautiful natural vistas of the world and promote more city projects that work with nature, not against it. 

Getting Back To Nature

TheCoolHunter.co.uk premiers an exceptional photographic journey through the some of the world’s most elite natural phenomenons. The mission behind getting back to nature is driven influenced by the New York Highline, which reclaimed an old industrial structure for new recreational uses.  These images will inspire even the most stubborn of city dwellers to revisit the beautiful natural vistas of the world and promote more city projects that work with nature, not against it. 

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