Love the work of Cuban born Pablo González-Trejo.

If what we are is based on the experiences we have lived, and the memories of these experiences mutate with time, then we are no more than just a metaphor of ourselves. – Pablo González-Trejo

Justin Maller is a freelance illustrator and art director working out of Melbourne Australia. Gallery after the jump.

In 2006, Tokyo born Akane Koide presented a booth at GEISAI, and was scouted by Takashi Murakami’s Kaikai Kiki artist collective at the young age of 15. The themes of her works speak of the trials and tribulations of junior and high-school students, expressed firsthand by junior-high school student Koide.

She has what I consider the “Murakami visual aesthetic”, as the majority of the artists in Murakami’s KaiKai Kiki collective all have a very similar “drawn-by-a-child-with-crayons” appeal (which is a drastic juxtaposition to Murakami’s mechanical like percision in his own works). However, do not confuse my use of the term “visual aesthetic” with Murakami’s superflat movement, which Koide’s work is undoubtedly apart of. Superflat (to me, at least) is more of a term for the movement or genre that Koide’s work is a part of; and to which predominantly all Japanese flattened anime-esque artworks are apart of. Gallery after the jump.

Alexandros Vasmoulakis is a very fascinating Greek artist I recently came across.

The revolution begins from within. Deviating Greece’s political inanity Alexandros Vasmoulakis introduces his individuals, as he refers to his figures, in a massive, dark and white, melting party. “Individual means indivisible”, says Vasmoulakis, “any singular thing, the basic unit, subject or object, the one who suffers or the one who hurts, a bachelor or the couple among strangers, any specific object in a collection”. Yet individuals interweave in front of Vasmoulakis’s eyes in an unforeseen way.

His present work culls from faces and sentiments. Wide-open colorful eyes, shattered bodies, at times dynamic at times paralyzed isolated or coupled Vasmoulakis’ individuals debate openly with the audience in the most sharp and eloquent way. Hey Ho! they scream through Syd Barrett’s lyrics, Here we go ever so high, rising in revolt initially against some obscure, erotic probably, opponent but essentially against their same self.

Gallery after the jump.

Ceslovas Cesnakevicius is 30 year old digital artist from Lithuania. My first thought when I saw Ceslovas’ work was “René Magritte.” And with the balloons, top hats and umbrellas seen in Ceslovas’ work, I don’t think the comparisons are unintentional, to say the least. Gallery after the jump.

Via: booooooom.com

Jesse Auersalo is graphic artist and illustrator from Finland. As a freelance designer he has worked with magazines like Grafik, Odd At Large, Kasino A4, Image, Muoto, Veli, Hufvudstadsbladet, Happi, Kerho and Nöjesguiden. Jesse was recently part of the Night On Earth show which held exhibitions in Berlin, Shanghai and Helsinki.

Limited gallery after the jump, please visit his website for a full selection.

Via: abduzeedo.com

The “Naked Faces” project is devoted to relationship between human’s inner world with human’s behaviour in society. The society still restricts behaviour and thought of a human being.

This project is a kind of a protest that is to show that a person should remain who he is and that people should perceive him in the way he is. The persons presented in my works lack individuality: the eyebrowes and the eyelashes are removed, the skin is smoothed. - Oleg

More images after the jump.

Via: Art Limited
Website: douart.ru

“Who is this Ian Stevenson?” you may well be asking at this moment and that is a very interesting question about a very interesting man, for he is a man of all seasons, a man from that glowing cultural node of all Greatest Britain, Leicestershire, English in his Britishness and British in his Leicestershirity but the question of who he is cannot fully be fully answered fully before a different question is asked and then subsequently answered about this man first which is this one: how is this man? “Very well, thank you” he may say but also how he is is this: born in Paris on a summer’s day, 1794, in the midst of the French Revolution to a dashing young army officer and his beautiful hairdresser bride, Ian’s life began in firey turmoil. Both parents were beheaded on the guillotine by the Jacobins for counter-revolutionary activities the moment Ian’s bloodied, fragile, stupid body dripped from the womb. …

His biography just about explains everything you need to know.

Via: 7inch
Website: Ian Stevenson