The 77th Volume of Hi-Fructose is here.
The New
Contemporary
Art Magazine
Hi-Fructose is a quarterly print art magazine founded by artists Attaboy and Annie Owens in 2005. Hi-Fructose focuses squarely on the art which transcends genre and trend, assuring readers thorough coverage and content that is informative and original. Hi-Fructose showcases an amalgamation of new contemporary, emerging as well distinguished artists, with a spotlight on awe inspiring spectacles from round the world.
Toon Joosen creates collages with maps and book text establishing moving narratives with found elements.
@toonjoosen
A Scottish city council has approved an AI generated image and funding for a mural which will be executed by humans for a mural project, generating controversy. We’ve been seeing alot of this pop up lately; where an artists entire body of work is physically painted by a human, but duplicating AI laundered imagery.
Video from @stvnews
Glasgow City Council planners have signed off on an AI-generated mural featuring a North American bald eagle for a listed building.
The mural, which has been proposed by Balmore Estates Limited, depicts a worker in a flatcap and overalls looming over a steam train, wind turbines, highland cows, solar panels, and a stag against a forest with a loch and castles in the background.
But it also includes a bald eagle, which is not a native species to the UK or Scotland.
Comments online have slammed the mural as “AI nonsense” and “AI slop”.
#Scotland #news #UK #glasgow
Artist Danae has created a series of collages honoring children who have passed while in ICE custody. There are estimates that there are 3800 currently being detained, with : At least 1,000 children being held for longer than the 20-day court-ordered limit.
Artist:
@_mocosa
These include:
Mariee Juarez. 19 Months. Guatemala. Contracted a fatal respiratory infection due to sub-par medical care and unsanitary conditions in detention.
Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez. 16. Guatemala. Was seriously ill when immigrants put him in a small holding cell. Diagnosed with the flue and fever of 103 degrees. His condition was never checkd on again.
Darlyn Cristabel Cordova-Valle. 10. El Salvador. Died in government custody after experiencing health complications, including fever and respitory distress, following surgery.
Wilme Josué Ramirez Vásques. 2. Guatemala. Passed from pneumonia.
Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez. 8 Panama. Despite knowing of a known heart condition and sickle cell anemia, her pleas for help were disregarded after suffering from a 104.9 degree fever and she passed from a preventable illness due to negligent care.
Juan de León Gutiérrez. 16. Guatemala. Passed from an infection in his brain that could have been caused by an untreated sinus infection or head trauma.
Jakelin Caal Maquin. 7. Guatemala. Passed away while in custody of CBP from a bacterial infection known as streptococcal sepsis. By the time Jakelin was transported to a children’s hospital she was vomiting, having seizures, and had difficulty breathing.
Felipe Gomez Alonzo. 8. Guatemala. Passed from a staph infection in his lungs that led to sepsis, along with influenza B.
Never seen a grave site like this, have you?
from Victoria, the cemetery girl. Find many more unusual gravesites at
@bluebardot
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“Grave with the hands” in Roermond, the Netherlands
These are the graves of Jacobus Warnerus Constantinus van Gorkum (1809–1880) and Josephina Carlina Petronella Hubertina van Aefferden (1820–1888), a Protestant man and a Catholic woman who were not allowed to be buried together. Their children commissioned the hands you can see on both graves to honour their parents’ love story and their wish to be together for eternity.
You may need a mental break right now. If so, we’ve just added a full length article written by Clayton Schuster on the work of master Pop Surrealist Todd Schorr to Hi-Fructose. Take care and thanks for reading us.
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Todd Schorr creates weird and ambitious works that feel like fever dreams about death, sex, and a fear that the good times are long gone. And the painter and sculptor has stayed busy in the last decade since Hi-Fructose last checked-in on him and his prolific artmaking.
“Since I was a child, I have had a lifelong fascination with the unusual and arcane,” he says. “It is an aesthetic that can probably be traced back into a person’s background environment, as well as their DNA somehow. Why are some people fascinated while others are repelled by the same visual stimulation?”
Schorr’s success has hinged on his revelry in twentieth-century pop and schlock. By his own account, his work is a “mulligan’s stew” of influences that might reference Ray Harryhausen films, midcentury sci-fi and horror comics, classic movie monsters, surrealist forebears like Pieter Brueghel the Elder and Hieronymus Bosch, cartoonists ranging from Tex Avery to Walt Disney and everyone in between, and whatever nonfiction books he’s into at the moment.
Lest you underestimate the expansiveness, all those references can come up in a single work. What makes Schorr nothing less than genius is his facility with making those references feel connected. No matter how many ingredients go into the stew, it tastes unified, with each component adding something worthwhile to the whole.
Read the full article from HF 67, now on Hi-Fructose. Images courtesy of Todd Schorr and KP Projects. This artist is not on IG.
Yvonne Smilley visits a carpentry studio where they create custom coffins based on a person’s interests in Ghana. Side Note: we have seen a few of these in museums like the Seattle Art Museum but there is a permanent display at the National Museum of Funeral History in Houston TX. Feel free to add places to see them in person by you, preferably above ground!
Video by @yvonne_smilley in. Ghana 🇬🇭
Color is a crucial element in Pedro Pedro’s work. In paintings like “Grapes,” “Sunflowers,” and “Pile of Citrus” (all from his most recent show), the colors are bolder than what’s found in nature, yet instantly recognizable. Pedro says that he’s drawn to “almost cartoon-esque” colors that still have an impressionistic quality.
“They interact with each other a lot, so I’m thinking about that a lot whenever I’m working with the paintings, like the subtle difference of a red, a more red-red or purple-red or orange-red or something. I think about those things a lot,” he says. “Right now, I’m thinking about reds because I’m trying to put a bunch of lobsters together without it looking like one big blob of the same colored red.”
He adds that he’s been in this situation before while painting a pile of lemons. “How do you make those lemons bounce off each other? Play with the color a lot so that they push and pull, not just to put things behind it, but also to separate them visually,” he says.
Read the full article on @pedrosname now on Hi-Fructose.
Video by @cbs8 who did little to no due diligence or research before promoting this unauthorized unsanctioned display of a “tribute” to Banksy. So we added some editorial notes.
It took just a few minutes to discover that in 2021, when it was in Seoul, organizers of this traveling (cash grab of a) show issued refunds after visitors complained that there weren’t enough real Banksy works in it.
Even if it’s not technically illegal, it’s our opinion that this presentation is disingenuous, no?
Here is the artist’s statement on licensing of his work:
“Are you a company looking to licence Banksy art for commercial use? Then you’ve come to the right place – you can’t. Only Pest Control Office have permission to use or license my artwork. If someone else has granted you permission, you don’t have permission. I wrote ‘copyright is for losers’ in my (copyrighted) book and still encourage anybody to take and amend my art for their own personal amusement, but not for profit or making it look like I`ve endorsed something when I haven’t.” @banksy
