The 78th Volume of Hi-Fructose is here.
The New
Contemporary
Art Magazine
Hi-Fructose is a quarterly print art magazine founded by artists Attaboy and Annie Owens in 2005. Hi-Fructose focuses squarely on the art which transcends genre and trend, assuring readers thorough coverage and content that is informative and original. Hi-Fructose showcases an amalgamation of new contemporary, emerging as well distinguished artists, with a spotlight on awe inspiring spectacles from round the world.
In the mountains of northern Italy, far from his studio in Madrid, David Oliver was supposed to be resting. It was early 2025 and he had gone with friends to a house in the Dolomites on a retreat to disconnect. Instead, Oliver found himself staring at images on his phone of cities under bombardment in Ukraine and neighborhoods reduced to dust in Gaza. One particular image stayed with him: a bombed-out playground where only a single swing remained standing. “I couldn’t understand how human beings could fall into such depths of darkness as to destroy the innocence of childhood,” Oliver says.
Working under the name Grip Face, Oliver had built a career on indirection, using elements such as masks, mirrors, hair, and coded forms that suggest more than they seem. Seeing the lone swing was a shock. He was struck by its brutal immediacy and reminded of the sheer scale of devastation happening on the other side of Europe and the Middle East.
Left with “fear, incomprehension, and at the same time the urge not to stop denouncing the paths that are leading us toward a dark abyss,” the result became Oliver’s most explicit installation to date: Utopía del Lodo, Sashimi de Bruma (or Utopia of Mud and Sashimi of Mist), which opened last September at the Fundació Miró Mallorca in Palma. The installation filled the museum’s Espai Cúbic with twelve suspended sculptures: masked heads and playful objects— some fuzzy and hairy, others shiny and smooth—hanging from swings made not of rope but of thorns. Arranged in a circle that recalls the constellation of stars on the European Union flag, the swings hover motionless. The sweetness of childhood is still there, in each character’s cute expressions and funny shapes, though their light has dimmed. All the sculptures have their backs to the viewer. The space is hushed, and nothing is alive…
Read the full article on @gripface_ now on Hi-Fructose.
It’s summer time! And you know what that means.. time to steam roll some prints!
Via @foundryartcentre
“Oh me? I’m just constructing an anthropomorphic chicken nugget-inspired mountain that’s simultaneously friendly and terrifying”
*note: quote isn’t from artist.
Sculpture in progress by Audrey Montoya.
@audreymontoya
Jesus Aguado’s frightenly cute painting “The Cosmic Event” is now on view at Australia’s @beinartgallery
@jm.aguado
Here’s hoping your Monday is 10% as enjoyable as this head tapping video is from BOZESTYLE.
@boze_style
It’s difficult to know when and how to communicate sometimes.
Surrealist embroidery by Santiago Cielo. @santo_cielo
🐸 El anfibio de las lenguas
The amphibian of tongues/languages
Isn’t it strange how a a bright geometric shape-y thing can be so soothing?
Aquatint etching by Courtney Sennish.
@courtneysennish
When color, texture and form come together perfectly… looking forward to seeing the end result of this work in progress by pheebs.
@cassisiss
