Top 3 emerging artists in Modern Art - Alina Reyzelman

Top 3 emerging artists in Modern Art

 

I am fascinated with how fast the niche for emerging modern artists is changing. I have looked through a few major media reporters and here what I can definitely recommend. Original content provided by CNN.

1.     Austrian-born, Berlin-based Oliver Laric explores how, in an age of digital reproduction, copies and remixes increasingly take priority over the original. From his influential series of video essaysVersions (2009-12), to encouraging a collective reworking of a Mariah Carey music video in Touch My Body — Green Screen Version (2008) in which all visuals other than the singer were replaced by green screen so any background could be inserted. His recent ambitious project Lincoln 3-D Scans (2013) involved scanning and producing 3-D models of the entire collection of the Usher Gallery and the Collection in Lincoln to be used for free for any purpose.

2.    London-based artist Eloise Hawser (b.1985) is fascinated by technology, old and new, and our bodily relationship to it. In her two screen video Sample and Hold (2013-15) she put her father through the process of being 3-D scanned to create a forensically accurate but emotionally disconnected geographical map which she can endlessly animate, manipulate and reproduce. For her recent solo exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in LondonLives on Wire 2015, she repurposed the color changing mechanism from an old Wurlitzer cinema organ, a short lived but once popular accompaniment to silent movies in the UK, rigging it to the gallery lighting system to create a subtly shifting atmosphere.

img_1779_03.     New York-based artist Rachel Rose’s (b.1986) exquisitely edited video Palisades in Palisades(2014) moves rhythmically back and forth in space and time. Forensic close-up shots in which the camera seems to enter the very pores of the face or fibers of fabric contrast with locating scenes of the female figure in a wintry landscape — Palisades Interstate Park on the Hudson River. Close cropped images of Revolution-era paintings allude to the park’s history as the site of a battle during the American Revolutionary War, while the clever soundtrack gives bodily effect to the imagery — overall a meditation on mortality and the interconnectivity of events through time. Her first solo show in London opened at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery on October 1, and she is the recipient of this year’s Frieze Artists Award.