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Sam Worthington - Aussie True Blue

It was in early 2009, during the first buzz around Terminator Salvation and Avatar, when Australian actor Sam Worthington was suddenly praised as Hollywood’s new secret weapon. Almost a decade earlier, the former brick labourer appeared in a string of Australian films, in titles such as Dirty Dee...

Pieter Hugo - Nollywood

The Johannesburg-based photographer Pieter Hugo sent waves through the photography world with The Hyena Men, his series of large-scale, arresting portraits of hyena trainers in Nigeria. His most recent work, Nollywood, explores the Nigerian film industry, one of the three largest film industries...

Bruce Munro and the CDSEA

Bruce Munro is the sort of artist you see once a generation. His love for adventurous and grand works literally light up showrooms and landscapes alike. Bruce’s sculptural-light-works are renowned the world over due to his awe-inspiring work. His passion and fascination of light equally engages...

Boris Sirka – The Art of Darkness

“Dark things are closer to my heart than the light ones,” says the Slovak artist Boris Sirka. Not limiting himself with the form, rather he focuses on the content channeling his inner demons through videos, photos, collages, paintings and drawings. Inspired by the aesthetic of various alternativ...

The best Football jerseys of all time

The World Cup is kicking off on the 11th of June and for one months people from around the world will tune in and support their national team. No other sport draws as many people or incites so much passion. In order to pay homage to the greatest competition, we at Electronic Beats are going to sh...

Claude Cahun - The Quiet Surrealist

Gegen Jede Vernunft (Against All Reason), a comprehensive Surrealist exhibition in the modest town of Ludwigshafen, recently devoted the Kunstverein Ludwigshafen exclusively to Surrealist photography from Paris and Prague. The photographic medium played a major role in this most momentous artisti...

The Road to Ruggedman

We, the young and restless, we love transformation for the sake of it. It’s like a magician’s trick, having a red checked handkerchief that – ta-daa! – turns blue checked. Whether it transformed into anything good or bad is secondary. We love to be surprised, even if we wear a black suit jacket t...

Cryonics - When the Sleeper Wakes

During a tense period between the Soviet Union and the United States in 1984, the West German band Alphaville released what is now their most famous single: ‘Forever Young’. It was a song that would become iconic of the eighties, a longing for youth beyond the drudgery of the Cold War. Despite th...

Remote Control: Sofi Zezmer’s mechanical bugs

Watch out! New York’s Mike Weiss Gallery has been taken over by mechanized microorganisms. These creepy crawlies are the brainchild of Polish artist Sofi Zezmer, who is on her third solo outing at Weiss’ gallery. Dubbed Remote Control, Zezmer’s work is a multimedia installation that includes scu...

Cinematic Oracles

Johannes Bonke meets with four legendary filmmakers to get their thoughts on the current state of cinema and their unique work approach within an overbearing studio system. By directing The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Peter Jackson not only turned around his image as a former slapstick h...

Creations d’art by Frédérique Morrel

Stools, sofas and strange animal heads coated with dancers, flowers, sceneries and sometimes even naked bodies. This weird vintage embroidery characterizes the esoteric artworks of French artist Frédérique Morrel. While Frédérique’s husband, Aaron from Kansas, takes care of the public relations,...

Matthew Rainwaters - Shoot Pictures Not People

What do you feel photographing a woman who stabbed her abusive husband 193 times? How do you get the right light-exposure for a man behind bullet-proof glass and under glaring prison lights? Matthew Rainwaters knows. The self-titled landscape photographer initially caught our attention with his s...

SALAZAR Productions – A motion picture collective

This is the story of SALAZAR Productions. It is one of those stories you will love to hear, a tale that makes you believe that anything and everything is possible when your heart is in it. In 2009 SALAZAR’s whimsical skate video, Wizard Smoke hit the Internet, and created a wave of interest in t...

Best of the Noughties - A decade in art's ecosystem

In the last decade the art world inflated to a degree that no one anticipated. The market expanded and fairs such as Art Basel and Frieze dictated the art calendar for the year. Biennials became more popular as the queues for the blockbuster exhibitions became longer. The auction houses became mo...

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