Although at first glance the work of Luke Jinks looks like from an old tattooist lover of the old-school style, we must point out that Luke belongs to that new generation, the most fresh, of young artists who have taken the needles as complement to their artistic interests. In fact, the first thing we noticed was his graphic work, illustrations and paintings with clear influences from the folklore, the ancient stories, the traditions and of course, also the western traditional tattoo culture.

His illustrations bring out the superstitions, religious rituals and esoteric world inherent in the European culture. His career as an artist is just starting out, after studying illustration at UWE Bristol, has become an apprentice in Infinite Ink Tattoo Studio near Birmingham. No doubt, the talent of Jinks will be something people will talk about inside and outside the tattoo scene in the years ahead, and if not, wait and see...

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The urban art team Low Bros consists of two brothers, Qbrk and Nerd, born in Hamburg, northern Germany. Currently based in Berlin, their work is a hybrid between vector graphics and graffiti with a flat-polygonal style and funky cool characters.

When they were children, Qbrk and Nerd loved to draw and create their own little stories and fantastic worlds while they were playing in the backyard or being in the countryside. Nowadays you can still find both influences, the urbanic and natural, in their currently art-works. These two brothers have been doing graffiti for 14 years. In 2005 they founded the TPL-Crew with AnusOne, Auge, Smok, Wer, Dekan and Rolle. During all this time the Low brothers have painted together, but it took a while till they began to developed their own geometric style. Since 2011 they decided to work under the name Low Bros.

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Monsters, gods, aliens, deformed freaks, nightmares or mythological beings, perhaps a little bit of everything. To discover the work of TheoJunior is like stepping into the dark depths of a cave with a small flashlight, a trip to the underworld of history, tales and legends. But above all, a sort of archaeological discovery in the imagination of its creator.

TheoJunior call them "people" and confesses that he does it for fun, he uses polymer clay and he explains at his website: "most are remixes of other faces. Toys and figurines in thrift stores and antique malls provide the originals. I press molds whenever I find faces. The faces are quite small, varying in size from about a half an inch to one and half inches. Each polymer clay face I make is pressed partially into several molds. In addition to molds of faces, I also use molds of stones, wood, shell, bone, nuts, and manmade objects of every sort."

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Lladró porcelain figures for new generations. This is how someone could define the art of Brendan Tang. His ceramic art is a mixture of asian ceramic culture, manga aesthetics, western pop icons, blinding colors and lot of craziness and creativity.

Brendan Tang was born in Dublin, Ireland of Trinidadian parents and is a naturalized citizen of Canada. He earned his formal art education on both Canadian coasts and the American Midwest, where he learn to appreciate the ceramic medium. His professional practice has taken him to India and Japan. He has been a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts and has participated also in an international residency at the European Ceramic Work Centre in Netherlands.

Tang’s work has been showcased at galleries and museums all over the world. Most recently, he has been exhibited at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Vancouver Art Gallery, the Power Plant Gallery and the Denver Art Museum. Some of his amazing ceramic works can be seen currently in “Barroco Nova” show at Museum of London, and “Terra Nova: Canadian Ground-Breakers in Ceramic Art” show at Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery in Waterloo, both in Canada.

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If you do not know already what we are talking about when we mention Delta, you have to get to make some extra hours at Belio. Not only have we reviewed the work of Boris Tellegen repeatedly in our website, but also he was part of the contents of the now distant Belio 004: Future. It is not an obsession with his work, but pure admiration for a logical and very interesting evolution. The three-dimensional work of Delta explores the land of abstract expressionism, but remains true to his passion for a neo-robotic aesthetic.

"My collages read as isometric industrial landscapes. By layering, cutting and chiseling I search for change in scale and perspective. Pieces of paper get torn, glued and then torn again, and replicate beyond control, forming city scapes resembling fuming wastelands. (...) It investigates the tension between planning and happenstance; the semblance of order undone by schematic chaos. Mankind is driven by an unshakeable faith in progress, where modern technology and constant growth leads us to a better world. My work explores a different outcome, where the automated forces unleashed develop structures and minds of their own". That's how Tellegen describes his own work, exploration and experimentation as a working basis.

Last week he presented his most recent works under the title Abundance in Alice Gallery in Brussels. Open until December 23, the exhibition is well worth a visit, but if you can't visit it, then you have here a comprehensive report with photos of the setting up, the process of creation, the exhibition and the new works.

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Diela Maharanie is a Jakarta based illustrator who likes daydreaming in her free time. She was born 1983 and she was a very active child, always doing tons of activities. Learned karate, ballet, math, and journalism. After high school graduation, she went studying Economy major at UIN Jakarta. Diela felt very aimless because her life didn’t seem to land where she wanted to aim and she finally dropout. "To me it’s kinda a big decision that would change my life entirely. I love art since childhood, I draw since childhood but never study art further, instead I took Auditing as major in College, I dropped it as I found my way into my only passion: illustration, fashion, and art."

Drawing is what she always wanted to do, so her husband, Prasajadi Heru, introduced her to the fluorescent and vibrant world of illustration. At that moment, Diela decided to take a leap and become a professional illustrator. "What makes me keep doing what I do now is that, before this happens I’ve been doing other things that don’t define me, that don’t make me happy. Now I’m happy, I will keep doing this, I found myself in this, this is me and I’m not going to stop being me, no matter what."

Works by Frida Kahlo gives many inspiration to her current drawings. To make an artwork, she just let her mind wandering around. It’d take her to places you couldn’t imagine. Tools-wise, Diela is a versatile artist that would love to use either digital wacom or traditional marker and watercolor.

For Diela, a great artwork is something that doesn’t need to be hip or dramatic or outstanding, a good artwork is a piece that speaks, reflects, and able to communicate what’s inside the artist’s head; his concept, his opinion, his life, the way he sees the world.

Diela has worked with Wall’s, Izzi, Indofood, Area Magz, Mytha or Babibutafilm, doing the movie poster for "Postcards from The Zoo". She also has been attending several exhibitions, such as, Lazy Brown Fox (Jakarta), Topeng Nusantara UNESCO (Jakarta), Park 'n' Rock (Paris-Marseille-Toulouse), Kopi Keliling vol. 2 & 3 (Jakarta) and Headache (Paris).

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Can you imagine two guys throwing gallons of paint through a funnel? Belio is something like that, a trickle of art, design, images, creativity... where you can only see a tenth of what is to come. This forces us many times to track the evolution and the trajectory of many artists that fascinate us. What allow us to appreciate the development of an idea, a concept and at the same time the personality of the artist in question before we publish it.

Gregor Gaida is an example of this. Since Belio landed in Berlin and we saw one of his impressive sculptures (at the fair Preview Berlin), we have been keeping and eye on the website from this sculptor of Polish origin. His work exudes an aesthetic fetishism for power in all its senses, that is his work represents the forces of action but also the forces of reaction. A sort of struggle between fascination and hatred toward power.

Here we present his latest work, all of it produced in 2011, some of which were exhibited in his solo show at Alexander Ochs Gallery in Βeijing, China. He has also participated in exhibitions in the U.S., but mainly his sculptures have visited galleries and museums in Germany, where he studied and where he currently resides.

Behind the cut you can see not only their sculptures from this year, also some of the key pieces since he started his career in 2004. As you can see at first glance the human body is the center about which gravitate most of his ideas, sections cutting off the power contained in a gesture, a movement, an action. But also flags, ornaments and elements of nature complement the universe, that abstract concept of power constricted.

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Mark Lee, aka Somnio8, is a welsh perceptual artist born in 1979. Studied 2D classical animation and animation design. Then entered the games industry for over four years, working for Sony Computer Entertainment SCEE in London. He was the character designer for the game EyePet, using new computer vision augmented reality.

Having left behind a empty industry of animation and video games, Mark went on a soul searching world traveling adventure and became a nomadic dreamer, living on the fringe of society, traveling between many parallel worlds. After a series of lucid dreams, Mark left on his quest seeking meaning and magical adventure, armed to the teeth with a vast imagination and a backpack of digital tools. After having received many initiations along the way, he now holds architectural tapestries of encoded light frequencies, given directly by the earth’s intelligence to carry what he can only term as the breath of the sphinx.

In the same way than artists like Alex Grey, Andrew Jones, Martina Hoffman, Robert Venosa, Carey Thompson, Erial Ali or Adam Scott Miller, Mark Lee is dreaming forever.

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For many who live on this side of the globe, Tokyo and by extension Japan are a symbol of many things, mainly as an exotic icon where live in harmony beautiful traditions with the latest trends, but also stands for a nearly martian technological society. A unique culture in all its aspects. Therefore it is a favorite destination for most Europeans and Americans, a kind of dream, like visiting the city of the future but here and now. This reputation is accompanied by a range of topics, many of them false or not entirely true. Does Tokyo sleeps?

Many think that the capital of the rising sun never rests, but yes... Tokyo sleeps, wakes up and boils. That's what Alvaro Arregui wanted to show us through his project Tokyo 6am, it's a personal iPhoneography project which shows scenes from a quiet Tokyo, beautiful black and white photographs that have been taken in his last visit to Tokyo, between six and eight in the morning, half-deserted streets that show a different side of the city.

Alvaro Arregui is a designer, a photographer, a creative director and a former regular contributor Belio (we say it with pride), from Zaragoza and currently living and working in London. He has been growing and evolving in the professional sense, and here you have an example: his easyTITLER application for mobile devices.

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Paul Octavious is a photographer and designer based in Chicago. In 2006, he picked up a camera and hasn't put it down since. His love of shooting a subject or a single object over a period of time has become a catalyst for the evolution of his work.

Born 1984 in a little town in Connecticut called Naugatuck, Octavious have been working with Nike, McDonalds, NY Times Magazine and The Wallstreet Journal. His poetic images have been featured by Beatiful Decay, Swiss Miss, The New Yorker, Phoot Camp, Pictory, Dwell, The Fox Is Black, Buzz Feed,...



This vintage book collector has trained as a graphic designer for four years. The only reason he started taking photos was to get images that fit his exact vision, instead of using the same stock photos everyone.

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Lovers of art and media terrorism, today we propose a show for future days. Like good lovers of errors, noise and glitches, Belio doesn't want to miss the chance to present a very interesting art show taking place at The Popular Workshop gallery in San Francisco during the month of December. Under the title Remains in the End Times presents a group exhibition of experimental video, audio, sculpture and prints featuring works from Yoshi Sodeoka, Rosa Menkman, Daniel Menche, JK Keller and Cristopher Cichocki. Some of them already known in the Belio environment.

"Utilizing disposable technology, deteriorated media, and derelict landscapes as a conceptual foundation, these artists have transformed ruination into mature experiential works that unearth a new psychedelia. Rather than illustrating drug experiences, as in the case of hypnotic works of the 1960s, these works mesmerize and overwhelm the senses by way of reshaping the entropy and chaos of techno-inundated modern life — both helping us escaping our reality while firmly planting ourselves in it." comments Jesse Lee Stout, curator of the show. The opening will be the next December 2, and the show will run until December 30. Glitch da place!

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On several times we have published Rocio Montoya’s photographs at our online gallery. Halfway between photography, fashion and art, the work by this visual artist from Madrid evokes melancholy and erotism in equal parts on each of her images.

Rocio Montoya is a photographer, designer and graphic editor. She is part to the Movimente Collective, a project where different photographers and designers living in Madrid join their creativity. Since January 2010 they founded DOZE magazine, an quarterly online art and photography magazine, which she co-directs and edits.

Photography is a philosophy of life for Rocío, an irremediable obsession, a source of learning and knowledge. Always open to new creative challenges, collaborating with artists, actors and designers, bringing her unique vision as photographic creation.

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In case is not yet clear, today we insist on the connection between music and visual arts. One of the most important leitmotifs that led us to create Belio back in the days, and remains being a source of inspiration to keep seeking, investigating and disseminating the art we love. It's been a long time since we declared ourselves musically-loving fans of the bass scene from Los Angeles, especially the Brainfeeder music label, with great talents such as Lorn, Tokimonsta, The Gaslamp Killer, Daedelus, and so on. Among them one of our favorites is Teebs, not only for its pseudo-tropical sounds and staccato electronic precious rhythms, but because Teebs is also an visual artist with a great talent, and his universe is composed of art and music in equal measure.

Teebs style is a blend of various influences from the 60's aesthetics and contemporary street art scene, with a touch of graphic design, illustration and collage from the 90's. The basis of his works are photographs from old magazines, paint and spraycan, which finished with floral and ethnic elements and notes in pencil. His music publications are usually accompanied by generous booklets with pictures of his paintings.



Currently you can visit his latest collection of works, Lady Luck, at Pawn Works Gallery in Chicago until December 18. But if you are not around, you can always content yourself with the video over these lines and images that we offer you behind the cut.

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U-Ram Choe is a Korean artist born in 1970 in Seoul. He is best known for his meticulously designed kinetic sculptures made of acrylic and stainless steel, each animated by robotics developed and programmed by the artist. Often equipped with motion sensors, Choe’s beautiful mechanic creatures react elegantly or alarmingly to visitors’ movements around them. They are accompanied by texts that tell the story of their imagined origins and evolutionary histories.

For this first New York museum solo exhibition, Choe was inspired by Shiva as Lord of the Dance (Shiva Nataraja) from Asia Society’s Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection. This late tenth-century sculpture in turn gave birth to Choe’s own mythological tale of the guardians of two imaginary worlds. He calls them Custos Cavum, or “guardian of the hole” in Latin. This creature protects the flow of communication between the two realms that assures mutual respect. In this fable, the guardian is a symbol of coexistence just as the Hindu god, Shiva, is a symbol of balance and harmony. The artist’s tale reflects the specific contemporary context of the political and economic repercussions of globalism, as well as ecological consciousness. In conjunction with the work that will be installed in the gallery, the artist will also create a related work for the Asia Society window space facing 70th Street at street level. The artist’s mythical story of Custos Cavum connects this small kinetic sculpture in the window to the larger installation that focuses on the circle of life and death.



The exhibition, that could be visited in New York until December 31, is part of an ongoing “In Focus” series in which contemporary artists create new works inspired by Asia Society’s permanent collection. Choe’s new work will be shown with the Shiva sculpture that is its inspiration.

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The turn of the century passed away long time ago, but man is still waiting for something big to happen and change their lives, fortunately for many there is still the well-known 2012, the perfect excuse to keep inside the superstitious-mystic spiral. If you are from those who are waiting for a light to come down from heaven, today we have a proposal to mitigate the wait. What about getting the sign of the times on your skin? Then Joel Madberg is your man! This young tattoo artist based in Salvation Tattoo - Stockholm has a special talent for magic-, occult-, alchemy- inspired works... And we just love it.

"I wouldn't say I mostly do occult-, alchemy- or magic-inspired tattoos but it's definitely easy for me to make something work with those aesthetics right now so one thing leads to another. I like stupid tattoos that have a far-fetched meaning to them, and most of the work I do have those qualities." Joel tells us. Downplaying the conception and development process, he confesses, "I draw 99% of everything I do the same morning before we open the shop, and usually the ideas just form right before or as I start drawing. Usually it'll start with a perceived layout and I'll draw from there." others may call it divine inspiration...

His work as a tattoo artist is part of that new blood, a generation of young tattooists who master a traditional style, where they are entering their personal contributions, new themes, current color schemes and a kind of drawing with references to other scenes of the contemporary culture. He puts the ideas, the needles and the ink, you put the skin.

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Kiel Johnson's drawings and sculptures tell tales; layered narratives speak of his travels and adventures through everyday life. His works become a springboard for metaphorical investigations of the world he inhabits. Although both factual fictions and absurd scenarios, they are ultimately testaments to observation that force us to question the concrete and truthful. What at first might appear safe and secure will be, upon further inspection, very precarious.

Johnson has produced some vey well-known works, like the sculpture of a Twin Lens Reflex Camera or the 8-Bit Gary for the Toshiba Laptop Expert Lab. He is currently working in a very interesting project: “Class of 3011”, a project with cardboard robots in collaboration with Arthur Mor, Roger LA, and Cypress College Art. The full video will coming soon!





Johnson (b. 1975, Missouri) received his MFA at California State University, Long Beach (CA). He has received numerous awards and honors including the Pollock-Krasner Grant, 2008; Durfee Foundation ARC Grant, 2007; and the CSULB Outstanding Creative Achievement Award, 2003. He has had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Kansas City and Irvine. His work appears in several important public and private collections including the Creative Artist Agency (CA), Tubert International (CA), Steve Martin Collection (NY), Todd Oldham (NY), and Sprint World Headquarters (MO). Johnson currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

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In a society like this one, in which we live, our actions must have a function, must be based on rational grounds. Did you imagine an architect making castles in the air? Well obviously not, the Argentine architect Pablo Boffeli can not and should not project anything impossible. But that's why he can count with his alter ego: Felipunch. So nobody can say what he can or can not make. Projecting, imagining, illustrating, scribbling, hallucinating colors in a graphic, psychedelic and pop world where anything is possible. Including unsustainable ideas.

Esa idea no se sostiene (that idea does not hold) is his first exhibition in Buenos Aires, the only individual show at Matienschön this year. The exhibition is the result of a process that involved several trips back and forth and face the project by four people, Felipunch himself and the curators Camille Cousin, Agustín Jais and Luz Peuscovich. They started imagining the exhibition space as an extension of their workspaces and a room for experimentation. You can see the results in person in the city of Buenos Aires until December 10. And if not, then you have here a visual review:

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Mr. Hipp has struck us today with his illustrative adventures and nerd shenanigans! Mr Hipp is Daniel Spencer Hipp, an American comic book author and illustrator. Born in 1978, Dan maintains his zombie survival training by watching monster movies and coaching Water Polo.

Dan draws a lot. In 2004 he caught the attention of Image Comics Publisher Erik Larsen and then Executive Director Eric Stephenson who picked up his and Mark Andrew Smith's first comic book series titled the Amazing Joy Buzzards. In 2007 he wrote and drew his three volume creator owned series from Tokyopop titled Gyakushu!.

He has created illustration work for Real Simple, Wired, DC Comics, Image Comics, Random House, and others. When he's not talking to himself in the third person, or working on his new All-Ages book, Stray Days, he's making nerdy pop-culture art just for fun. And we love it!

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Enigmatic, mysterious, immeasurable, paradoxical, fascinating and wonderful are terms that could describe the universe. They are also terms that could describe our feelings when we confront the work of David Altmejd. A work composed with wood, foam, plaster, burlap, methacrylate, wire, glass, etc. with which recreates the complexity of human beings exposed from inside out.

"When I work, the body is like a universe where I can lose myself. It is a metaphor for the landscape, nature and the mountains" Altmejd has said. Born in Canada in 1974, his work has been part of exhibitions in prominent places such as the Saatchi Gallery, Tate Liverpool, Deutsche Guggenheim, Kunstmuseum Bern, Fundació La Caixa, and so on. And his most recent exhibition was at Andrea Rosen Gallery last spring, where he presented a collection of works that explore the aesthetics and obsessions always present in his work: a kind of alchemical mutation where the human being ceases to be the continent, revealing a portrait of the content, the perception of the universe in the form of an art piece.

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In 1666, Sir Isaac Newton conducted a famous experiment that has been widely considered as a landmark discovery in the study of optics and color theory. Inspired by this discovery, PRISMA1666 is a light interactive installation consists of fifteen triangular crystal blocks distributed randomly on a clean white surface, two projectors, and a touch screen for user interaction. Projection of colorful graphics is refracted and dispersed by these crystal blocks, creating a fascinating visual experience and performance.

Wonwei and the design studio Super Nature have collaborated to create that interactive art installation for the 2011 International Science and Art Exhibition in Shanghai. The installation, focuses on the light refraction properties of a prism, allowing the user to experience these properties by interacting with various colors, angles, and shapes being projected onto a group of prisms.





Super Nature is a Shanghai based multi-discipline design company. It specialises in interactive design, visual communication & media technology. Wonwei is an art project founded by Harald Haraldsson. Harald holds a master’s degree in engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology.

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