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It hasn't taken long for Roger Federer to explore what life after tennis will look like. A new short film by Credit Suisse and NBCUniversal shows how the 20-time Grand Slam winner secretly worked with fellow Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone for his burn shine fly exhibition, which went on view at last year's Venice Biennale. Entitled Portrait of a Champion, Federer was shown perhaps like few have ever seen him, stripped down to his underwear, as he modelled various poses while suspended in the air. The tennis phenom noted the difficulty of the task, even comparing it to the rigors he once faced on the court. Emblematic of his playing career, however, Federer was up for the challenge, noting: “This is something exciting in itself as it takes you out of your normal world and it sort of throws you ...

When one thinks of immersive art, usually large LED screens and the fusion of science and technology come to mind. Nicolas Party is just a painter, not a technologist, but his work transcends that of tradition and certainly transports visitors to a surreal world caught between art history and fiction. His latest solo exhibition is no different. Housed at Xavier Hufkens in Brussels, Cascade is understated but impactful as the Swiss artist transformed the space into a colorful maze made up of subdued hues. As his third exhibition with the gallery, Party is showcasing a new series of pastels, cabinets and oil-on-copper paintings. This is a new trajectory for him, both in terms of his formal approach to art-making and the technical aspects of his practice. View this post on InstagramA post sha...

Shohei Fujimoto is a Japanese AV artist who utilizes light, time and space to play with the boundaries of human perception. In the past, the artist has regularly worked with fellow musicians to create hypnotizing live sets, such his most recent collaboration with Kyoka Sound. On view at ARTECHOUSE in Washington D.C. is a new solo exhibition where Fujimoto desensitizes his viewer through an array of codified installations. Entitled Intangible Forms, each room encapsulates the viewer into a sea of luminous red lights and cubic geometric patterns. Instead of using material to sculpt his forms, Fujimoto uses mathematical code — an almost invisible form of drawing that merits precision to create tantalizing installations that are weightless, yet overwhelming, dizzying and simultaneously hard to...

Acclaimed Chinese contemporary artist Huang Yongyu was tapped to create two new stamp artworks for China Post's celebration of the Lunar New Year. Yongyu, 99, is one of the nation's most revered living artists and had created postal artwork several times before, most notably for the 1980 Year of the Monkey stamp — which garnered nearly $300,000 USD when it sold at auction in 2017. This year's stamps have come with mixed reviews, however, as many in the online community are labelling the artwork "evil" and "scary" looking. The first stamp is titled “The Rabbit Sending Blessings” and features Yongyu's washy ink aesthetic as he creates a blue rabbit with bright red eyes holding a pen and letter. According to a press release by China Post, "such an image suggests that Chinese people think all ...