Miltos Manetas
Paintings From Contemporary Life

Authors: Miltos Manetas
Editor: Johan & Levi Editore
Release: february 25, 2009
Languages: english - italian
Pages: 144
Price: 48€

Publisher Johan & Levi Editore writes:

"Every electronic component portrayed bears witness to a certain period in the development of technology, implicitly marking the pace and duration of Manetas' research and immediately flagging up a 'present' and a 'past

'In his work Manetas acts as an observer of this daily phenomenon. At times he works from a 'subjective' angle, bearing witness to both our total involvement in technology, and the sense of alienation that comes from interacting with machines. Other times he takes a 'bird's eye view' to draw attention to the gestures, often underestimated or taken for granted in daily life, that man performs on machine, in a world which is lacking in concrete 'actions/ that point up to what is going on.”

Angelidakis is an architect working at the intersection of digital culture and architectural production. In these parallel realities he treats the internet (eg. Second Life) as a place where ideas are born and get tested, and where new social behaviours define the way our society will develop in years to come. These experiments have a real life counterpart in his exhibition and installation design, furniture, urban planning and housing projects. Many of designs are reproduced here with the help of images, photographs and models.

Here is privileged access to the sketchbooks of some of the world’s leading street and graffiti artists. These are very private spaces, often reserved for a handful of friends.

The book showcases an incredible diversity of working methods, innovative approaches and personal fixations, typographic explorations, alter egos, storyboards, mythological creatures, anatomical studies, architectural drawings and extreme doodling.

Over 65 artists worldwide are represented, including Banksy (UK), A. J. Purdy (USA), Eroné (France), Joska (Germany), Microbo (Italy), Laguna (Spain), Bfree (Holland), Ekta (Sweden), Hell’O Monsters (Belgium) and Zbiok (Poland). They work across different media, including illustration, painting, design and animation, but graffiti and street art are common links between many of them.