Honorroller creates exclusive commission works for major brand concepts and clients from around the world which makes the three sculptures represented by us something truly unique to showcase to our base of collectors.
Nicklas Hultman is a Swedish multidisciplinary artist and designer. He worked and lived five years in Shanghai doing art and advertising. There he started doing his #baroqueikebana project which brought him to Japanese TV. He has been in several publications all over the world; Gestalten, Rakesprogress, 摄影之友 and METAL Magazine to name a few.
Flowers have always been a part of Nicklas's expression. From bursting buds to withering petals.
We at Mankovsky are thrilled to showcase a visual journey by two amazingly skilled artists. We placed Brooklyn based wood sculptor Honorrollers three blocky sneaker sculptures into the hands of Gothenburgs most creative floral designer Nicklas Hultman.
The Atlantic Ocean separates them but their creative outputs came together in our studio.
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Everything illustrated isn’t for kids - but a present sentiment of never letting go of your inner child - makes Damien’s works both playful and true when uncovering hard truths. Damien Weighill is a London based illustrator who’ve been commissioned to tame lines for some of the worlds biggest lifestyle concepts such as Adidas, YouTube and Google.
Always in pursuit of the next idea, using his signature simple hand-drawn line and bold color, he creates work that is playful and often humorous and not seldom criticizes- as well as praises global initiatives surrounding environment and sustainability.
In collaboration with Jealous Gallery in London we at Mankovsky Gallery have curated seven ,never before seen works, from Damien.
These works are exclusively represented by us and dates back to Damien's personal works from 2012 and onwards.
All editions are offered in limited, numbered and signed by Damien on accompanying "Certificate of Authenticity"
]]>Award winning documentarist, artist and avid basketball enthusiast Kevin Couliau exhibits 9 works from his extensive career of traveling the globe, capturing the very essence of basketball.
]]>Award winning documentarist, artist and avid basketball enthusiast Kevin Couliau exhibits 9 works from his extensive career of traveling the globe, capturing the very essence of basketball. The courts, the people, the aestethics and the lifestyle compiled and showcased in his "Courtside Legacy" exhibition.
Kevin Couliau articulates the beauty of basketball through photographs that express the nature, aesthetic and culture of the sport. Inspired by an early love for the game, the Paris-based photographer and filmmaker searches for stories that reveal basketball's impact on individuals and their communities, while demonstrating its universality throughout the world.
Couliaus' acute awareness of sociology, urban design and architecture converge into the composition and content of his photographs, and in 2012 culminated into the award-winning documentary "Doin’It In The Park", a film featuring New York City’s most prolific basketball courts and its historical pick-up basketball scene. Kevin Couliau publishes an independent magazine Asphalt Chronicles that distills topics and aesthetics of pick-up basketball culture. In addition he works on assignments globally for commercial clients including the NBA, Apple and Nike.TEZ graduated from Leeds College of Art in 2010 with a Printed Textiles and Surface Pattern degree. Today keeping himself in the bustling Shoreditch area working and creating at Jealous Gallery. Inspired by the colour, lines and energy of city life, Tez expresses his unique style through a diverse range of processes and media. He uses intricate stencil methods such as screen printing, taping and paper cutting to create fine art screen prints and wallpapers, as well as spray painted murals and painted canvasses.
The curated selection of works by TEZ are in collaboration between us at Mankovsky Gallery and Jealous Gallery. These three works make up a collection of typical TEZism creations with their geometrical labyrinths which all hold special and focused meanings.
Shuby had her 1st major solo show in the iconic Soho area of London which has in recent years been through a process of intense gentrification. She drew inspriration from the area's connection to retro saucy films, sex industry and strip shows creating a body of canvas silk screen prints and light pieces re inventing film posters and ads with her own cheeky motifs of bowlers hats, bunny's and bananas. Some of these work are in permanent collections in the private member's bars and venues of Soho.
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Being a showgirl isn't just lashes and lips. It is an art form. To hold the audience with the gliding grace of a dancer, to captivate with your voice, to delight in the fantasy of the female form.
Showgirls are the religion of beauty and class, completely in control of the power of femininity.
Through the lense, Anna Vinterfall depicts the modern day showgirl with intimately captured snapshots of an extraordinary everyday life of a Las Vegas showgirl.
Experts within their art of performing, athletes of their craft of sensuality we are invited to glimpse behind the facade of the professionals of the iconic city of sin and desire.
”Dannie”, 2019, The Strip.
From small town Niskayuna to Las Vegas, starring at Jubilée, Ballys, the last running original showgirl production, Dannie spent a lifetime dedicated to her craft of dancing to be able to fullfill her dream of starring on Las Vegas biggest stage. Captured in original ”Jubliée” costume at The Strip in Vegas.
”Helen”. 2016, Los Angeles
During a session of performance art I got close to Helen, a veteran showgirl of Vegas, when we were in LA for a traveling show. Out of the thousands of photos that day this specific photo captured Helens body's unwavering will to remain afloat in a perfect moment of absolute tranquility.
”Teta & Jazz”, 2018, Summerlin Las Vegas
Teta & Jazz haven been performing their fire breathing, rock n roll, aerial, sparks and pyro show all over the world. They are stars of the show ”Fuel Girls”. I wanted to bring out their inne girls, hence moving away from their usual leather-and-tough-badass-tattoo-and-steel-routine, the absolute contrast with bubblegum coloured balloons and high heels.
”Lucia”, 2019, Summerlin Las Vegas
I captured contortionist Lucia, resident in the show ”Opium” for Spiegel World. The absolute flexibility of Lucias body, the defiance of gravity and physical laws makes it so she appears almost floating when standing perfectly still. Lucias performing art is beautifully mastered in our full day session at my house in Summerlin, Las Vegas.
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Highlighting the real ‘stars’ of the past and even fewer of the present – as opposed to what the word ‘celebrity’ now means today – artist Russell Marshall’s screen prints celebrate some of the best icons of the last 5 decades, re-igniting each of their star status, their stories and our love of them. Previously an award-winning newspaper art director and journalist, Russell’s bold use of colour, production techniques and his selection of unforgettable images are what gives his work a timeless appeal, each one telling the viewer a narrative, achieved through dedicated research.
GREAT ESCAPE:
Steve McQueen: Arrested for drunk-driving in Anchorage, Alaska in 1972. Witnesses reported that 42-year-old McQueen ripped through the town in an Oldsmobile Tornado - speeding, burning doughnuts and pulling handbrake turns. McQueen performed a back-flip during his field sobriety test.
REBEL REBEL:
David Bowie: Arrested in upstate New York on March 25, 1976 on a pot possession charge. 29-year-old Bowie was busted with Iggy Pop and two others at a hotel in Rochester following a gig. He was held in the Monroe County jail for a several hours before being released.
DEVIL IN DISGUISE:
In 1977 more than 10,000 doses of sedatives, amphetamines, and narcotics were prescribed in Elvis’ name.
WHISKY IN A JAR:
Route 66 - America’s mother road - provided an escape from the poverty of the 1930s dust bowl Midwest for hundreds of thousands searching for the American Dream in California. Mom and pop motels, stores, diners and gas stations battled for custom using incredible neon signs. As Route 66 was bypassed by bigger and faster highways, customers stopped coming and businesses failed. Many of the signs remain on abandoned sections of the highway... sunbleached and sandblasted by desert winds. Ghosts of the past, faded American pop art.
Contemporary artist Sara Pope is best known for her bold, seductive paintings of voluptuous lips. Taking inspiration from a successful career in the fashion industry (as a shoe designer for brands such as Paul Smith), and her work in magazines as a designer and art director, Sara aims to capture the sensuality and seductive power conveyed by the lips and mouth. Interested in questions of beauty, communication, and the rise of image perfectionism, Sara uses the perspective of her commercial experience to explore these themes. The starting point is a makeup brush and a lipstick. She paints the models lips, then, using tricks and techniques of makeup and lighting, she begins the process of creating the perfect lips. She asks the model, to express different emotions which she captures photographically. Using these shots as inspiration she begins the artwork. The painting process involves several layers of thin oil-diluted paint being overlaid, blending and smoothing the colours extensively at every stage, sometimes also mixing lipstick into the paint. Emulating the stylistic slickness of advertising, the result is glossy, perfect and irresistible. Sara is currently represented by 19 galleries in the UK and internationally. Last year she completed successful solo shows with Jealous Gallery, London, Lilford Gallery, Folkestone during the Folkestone Triennial, as well as a joint London show with Magnus Gjoen. 2018 began with a solo show at D Contemporary gallery, Mayfair, London and Sara is currently working towards a solo show at Next Street Gallery, Paris in September. Sara has completed collaborations with The Big Issue, BareMinerals makeup, PIAS music label, and Swedish fashion label Limitato. She is also the first British female artist in over 70 years to have a piece of work accepted into the Vatican collection.
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Having gathered experience in front of the camera as a model and as a presenter for GQ, the Berlin-based creative entrepreneur Simon Lohmeyer is now focused on exploring his passion for photography. His images spark tales of an eccentric and indulgent lifestyle shaped by opulent parties, intimate encounters and globetrotting adventures. Whilst the settings vary from rugged landscapes to urban scenes to luxurious interiors, the nude forms which inhabit them lend an air of raw human experience that connects us all.
]]>A skilled fine artist who dynamically fuses painting and photography, Paul Robinson aka LUAP, born in Grimsby in 1982, is fast gaining critical recognition and a celebrity following for his exciting work.
Working across various mediums his work hints at abstract expressionism infused with the explosive energy and bold colour of Pop and Urban Art. Exploring existential subjects within a contemporary feel his work stands alone in its composition and provoking content and subject matter.
His most iconic series depicts a pink teddy bear come-to-life and placed in the real world acting as a metaphor for discovery and exploration. The costumed figure – a striking motif in his work – exists between reality and make-believe, youthful innocence and corruption, leading a lifestyle that looks simultaneously enviable and questionable.
The use of the colourful anti hero and the way Robinson combines digital, graphic and photographic techniques have been acclaimed by purveyors of vanguard art ‘The Kids of Dada’ and supermodel Cara Delevingne. A collection of work featuring the Pink Bear was recently exhibited in a solo show at Andipa Gallery Knightsbridge and is currently on display at exclusive London members club, Home House. A Pink Bear print recently sold for three times the listed price at Christie’s on behalf of the Terrence Higgins Trust and has also confounded guests in a provocative, live installation at one of Berlin’s hippest hotels, The Moxy.
Robinson sells and exhibits his work globally, highlights include London, New York, Dubai, Hong Kong & Berlin.