Sex Is No Accident

MTV Extends ‘Sex Is No Accident’ Print Ads Into Video.

Last spring, Grey Germany put out some print PSAs for MTV in the form of multipanel cartoons reminding you that “sex is no accident,” so you should always be prepared and use a condom.

The cartoons humorously showed all kinds of unexpected, slapstick, accidental sex—like a guy roller-skating down the street, tripping on the curb, falling into the back of a woman bent over packing her car, and accidentally having sex with her.

Now, here are some companion videos, featuring accidental water ski, hang glider, and moped sex. Seems the best way to remain safe is to walk quietly down the street, rather than try any kinds of sports or operate a motor vehicle.

Gaga-esque

Madame Peripetie explores the boundaries between fashion, sculpture and the human body, experimenting with various fabrics and patterns; whilst infusing high-fashion elements with abstract and conceptual ideas, creating an eccentric escapade of color and texture.

Behind this gaga-esque and burlesque pseudonym one finds the artist Sylwana Zybura who is based in Germany and UK working internationally on diverse art projects and for various independent magazines.

Sylwana is a very innovative fashion photographer and surrealist artist who have a master degree in Linguistics and has a strong interest on film direction.

To me, she is a mastermind in visionary photography and radical character design. It is an excerpt of her work, a glimpse of her aesthetics.

In her work she is focusing mainly on the interaction between body, language and new media. And obviously, her inspirations include surrealism, dadaism as well as the new wave era of the 80s, British post punk scene and the avantgarde theater of Robert Wilson.

I am sure that I am not the only one who is somehow also reminded on the surreal masterpiece movies of “The Cell” and “The Fall” or even Matthew Barney’s “Cremaster Cycle”. But I love Sylwana Zybura’s reinterpretation and further developement of them.

http://www.madameperipetie.com/

The Art of Evanescence

An outstanding artist I recently fell in love with is Fernando Gómez Balbontín. Fernando is painter from Santiago, Chile. His collection of work revolves around vehicle accidents and death. Portraying the reality of uncertainty and blind ignorance through the eyes of an observer.

“We seem lo live in an inevitable nonconformity. We do not accept the uncertainty that arises from our total ignorance about death. And while denying the only certainty that we probably have, we construct a hopeful discourse about a hypothetical future in which it is impossible to stop existing. (…)

The representation of an imaginary around death pretend store think life’s real sense, inducing the observer to anact of resistance towards the consumption of ideas imposed by a contaminated society. Denying death is denying life. So tragedy is not the reality of death, but it is about not accepting this possibility and consequently, not reaching life.” (The New Collector’s Book, http://thenewcollectorsbook.com)

Fernando Gómez Balbontín shows the depressing sight of the mangled metal of a car wreck with bright blends of neon acrylic dripping down his canvas. One can’t tell if the characters in his paintings are truly unscathed by the horrible state of affairs that surronds them; or if they are simply no longer burdened by the weight of the living.

Balbontín shows true progression as an artist and seems to find himself inventing new ways to keep his audience’s eyes glued to his paintings. His tactics work, because just like witnessing the aftermath of a massive car accident off the side of the road… it’s just too hard to look away.

http://www.gomezbalbontin.tk/