[It's LIQUID News] Chiara Scarpitti

.design news	February 13, 2013
Chiara Scarpitti   The symbol word originally means to throw together, but also unite, put together. The symbol in the jewel isher essence. “The symbolic moves itself in the unpredictable feeling, in the natural instinct. The irrationality and the mysticism is a concept that encompasses ancestral all peoples by ever”. The symbol evokes feelings of things in unpredictable ways. Its presence in the jewel is in a dialectical relationship with that elementpoetic and visionary, and becames concrete action in the reality of all days. The assumption is that the fascinating and mysterious world of natural geometric forms, dominated by images, lines, dots, numbers and enigmatic formulas, is particularly suitable for the design of a contemporary jewelry. This stimulating survey of the forms in the universe often leads us in front of ancient myths, who magical powers attract still now.   The design approach is alchemic. The starting point of alchemy is the unity of matter: matter is one, but can take myriad forms and be combined in many others inexhaustible ways. From raw material borns also the work of a designer. Both a designer that an alchemist work with the idea of “practice trasmutatoria”. For both, values are given specifically to the mass, space, light and shadow, and is active the participation of the body to these physical elements. Both live and think the object of their search. Oriented research, however, to the “recovery of manual dexterity, to the practical experiment, to the verify in the laboratory”. The haute couture tailoring techniques, along with inkjet prints on silk combine the industrial chemical cut steel to create a new type of jewellery between design and craftsmanship, unicity and seriality. There’s an attempt to return with an aura of mystery and magic in who wears this jewel. Reactions between jewelry and body, between jewelry and another, between jewelry and the space around him, “Reaction Poétique”.   Chiara Scarpitti is a designer, specialized in contemporary jewellery. Her works are spread over different levels of the contemporary, on new design methodologies, using the most innovative and experimental production techniques between industry and craft.   more. www.chiarascarpitti.com | info: info@chiarascarpitti.com

It’s LIQUID International Contest | Second Edition 2012

It’s LIQUID International Contest | Second Edition 2012

 

Submission Deadline: January 23, 2013
Winners Release: February 28, 2013

 

Official website: www.itsliquid.com/contest 

 

The contest is open to artists, architects and designers from all over the world without any limit of age and nationality. Solo artists, architects and designers can participate to the contest as well as groups.

 

Submission instructions

 

- Painting, illustration, photography and computer graphics categories:only high resolution 300 dpi digital images are admitted, 1 picture for each submitted artwork. All the presented artworks can be accomplished with total stylistic and technical freedom, on every support and with any dimension.
- Installation, sculpture and product design categories:only high resolution 300 dpi digital images are admitted, with a maximum of 3 pictures for each submitted artwork. All the presented artworks can be accomplished with total stylistic and technical freedom, on every support and with any dimension.
- Fashion design category:only high resolution 300 dpi digital images are admitted, with a maximum of 3 pictures for each submitted work. Clothing or accessorizes can be presented by photos or sketch.
- Architecture category:
can be presented innovative project regarding bio-architecture, Smart Cities, eco-neighborhoods, Self-sufficient buildings, Intelligent homes and eco-sustainability. Interior, residential, commercial and urban project are admitted. Each project should be presented on a maximum of n.3 A3 panels in JPEG or PDF format, containing plans, sections, elevations, renders and text description.
- Video-art and performing art categories:videos in any digital format, PAL or NTSC, whose total length will not have to exceed 15 minutes (opening titles and closing credits admitted) and 3 still images for each submitted video.

 

It’s LIQUID Group, in collaboration with International ArtExpo, offers to artists, architects and designers from all over the world the possibility to participate with their works to It’s LIQUID International Contest | Second Edition 2012, with a free theme and divided into ten categories: 

 

.painting
.sculpture and installation
.photography
.video-art
.computer graphics
.architecture
.performing art
.product design
.fashion design
.illustration

 

The contest is born aiming at promoting contemporary art, photography, architecture and design through all the divulgating tools that the communication platform It’s LIQUID has used for years (press release, mailing list with more than 80,000 subscribers, international contemporary art and design events realization). 

 

AwardsIt’s LIQUID International Contest promotes contemporary art, photography, architecture and design all over the world. Artists have the chance to win €50,000 in prizes, chosen both by public vote and professional jurors. And, among others, there are the chances to win a Solo Exhibition in Venice and a Solo Exhibition in Istanbul, leader cities for contemporary art.

 

- 1 Solo Exhibition in Venice
- 1 Solo Exhibition in Istanbul
- 1 exclusive art residence in Venice (public vote award)
- 1 exclusive art residence in Rome
- 2 exclusive art residences in Istanbul
- 3 exclusive art residences in Turin (Italy)
- 1 year of participation in International Art Festivals organized by International ArtExpo
- 1 year of interviews, publications and specials on the It’s LIQUID Group (more than 80.000 subscribers)

 

Winners will be selected by public vote (which will award the Venice Art Residence, and will start on January 07, 2013) and by professional jurors’vote (which will award one Solo Exhibition in Venice, one Solo Exhibition in Istanbul, Art Residences in Rome, Istanbul and Turin, 1 year of participation in International ArtExpo’s festivals, 1 year of It’s LIQUID Platform services).

 

Official website: www.itsliquid.com/contest 

 

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Featured Artist Nora Schöpfer from It's LIQUID

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Nora Schöpfer, neither different nor separated series, dancing seconds. Photography
Nora Schöpfer   Nora Schöpfer born in Austria, studied Graphics and Painting at the University of Applied Art of Vienna, in the master class of the International Austrian artists Oswald Oberhuber and Ernst Caramelle. Her work has been shown in Europe and USA in various group and solo exhibitions, as well as through nominations and art prices. Currently she lives and works in Austria.   Since some years Nora Schöpfer has been working on several series, with names such as neither different nor separated, precious gaps, neither solid nor constant, which are a part of the work gaps between seconds. Visual investigation of timelessness presence and a view of interconnection between existences are the themes in the work, which are approaching splits of moments with a taste of fluid boundaries, seen in a material way as well as related to a concept of identity. The imagination of a flow from each material into another is leading back to the interdependence between now and eternity.   With the disappearance of a specific identity, achieved through formal overlays up to anonymous images, the intention of the artist is to face a precious quality of the now, beyond any identification and valuation of something known. Dealing with a paradox, Nora Schöpfer aspires to depict the fleeting nature of form and thus to approach the presence of a moment.   more. www.noraschoepfer.com     Do you want to become a featured artist? If you would like to become a featured artist send us a brief text about you and your work, CV, biography, a selection of high resolution images and your contacts to info@itsliquid.com For more details download the media pack 2012 here or visit the advertise section here   more. www.itsliquid.com

Call to Artists - Do you want to become a featured artist?

.featured artists	October 05, 2012
Do you want to become a featured artist?   It's LIQUID is searching artists from all over the world to be included in its range of featured artists. If you would like to be a featured artist send us a brief text about you and your work, CV, biography, a selection of high resolution images and your contacts to info@itsliquid.com   It's an amazing opportunity for you to share your talent!   Your work will be posted on It's LIQUID and will be sent through our Newsletters service which are distributed directly to over 80.000 international collectors, consultants, advisers, critics, writers, curators, dealers and other visual arts professionals.   Our featured artists are Maurizio Cattelan, Vanessa Beecroft, Takashi Murakami, Jeff Koons, Olafur Eliasson, Bill Viola, Spencer Tunick, David LaChapelle and others. The next could be YOU!    Database demographics: 40% in North America / 45% in Europe / 15% in other locations (South America, Australia, Japan, etc.). Key information: over 100.000 monthly unique visitors / over 500.000 million monthly page views / over 80.000 newsletter subscribers.   You can find more info about the "featured artists" service in the "advertise" section on the website or download the It's LIQUID media pack 2012 here to know all the details about it and other advertising opportunities.   It's LIQUID Groupc/o Luca Curci Architects Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33 70122 Bari (Italy)   +39.0805234018 +39.3387574098 info@itsliquid.com www.itsliquid.com