projects

What if the virtual starts to mingle with the real? Systems or machines are taking over creative input? Or what if the crowd decides what an artist will create? Axel King is a virtual artist able to produce real paintings, using crowd-sourced creativity from his community website.

Everyone is a star on Myspace or Facebook. Personal information is generously send into the world. Users are unveiling themselves to strangers as they were best friends. The myspace portrait series is accentuating just that.

A disturbed kid with a bear mask on is talking to a broken piggy bank. A cool Lego guy is complaining about the present, while watching naked girls at the pool...
The LplusL world is a fantastic world, where fictive characters are set in different situations and are holding conversations. The installation, consisting of different sceneries, reflects on actual thoughts and conditions.

Yearly event organized for the promotion of selected local creative talent (Ghent).
Art * Fashion * Design * Music * Photography

What happens if a musician and writer, who cannot draw at all (says himself), has been proposed to hold an art show? Result is a collection of paintings designed by Gorki frontman Luc De Vos, with the help of a small camera and the Artmann (see Experiment # 2) concept. Thnx 2 u Vos!

Everyone can produce paintings... not everyone is therefore artist. Does an artist stops being an artist if his work is delegated? Artmann is LplusL's prêt-à-porter art brand. Paintings are designed on computer, then outsourced to painter studios in Xiamen, China.
The first collection of Artmann paintings was designed by LplusL.

How far can an artist go in self-promoting his work? What's the limit for art to flirt with marketing, before it turns into pure marketing?