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The Machines of the Isle of Nantes (Les Machines de l'île) is an artistic, touristic and cultural project based in Nantes, France. Background The project of Machines de l'île in Nantes aims to promote city's image and tries to build an identity as a creative metropole of dream and of fantasy...

Danish-born Maria Rubinke’s (1985) creates small porcelain figures which are reminiscent of the illogical compositions of surrealism, transforming the character of what are traditionally charming and passive objects into expressions of more taboo feelings that oscillate between desire and sadism. She is an artist currently based out of Copenhagen, Denmark who creates sculptural pieces of little children depicted in gruesome and gory scenes...

Shintaro Ohata was born in Hiroshima, Japan, 1975. Shintaro Ohata is an artist who depicts little things in everyday life like scenes of a movie and captures all sorts of light in his work with a unique touch: convenience stores at night, city roads on rainy day and fast-food shops at dawn etc. His paintings show us ordinary sceneries as dramas. He is also known for his characteristic style; placing sculptures in front of paintings, and shows them as one work, a combination of 2-D and 3-D world...

Eyes are organs that detect light, and convert it to electro-chemical impulses in neurons. The simplest photoreceptors in conscious vision connect light to movement...

On December 12 1972 Marie-Hélène de Rothschild held her famous Surrealist Ball at Ferrières. Few made the guest-list but if you did, it was the ultimate seal of approval from Parisian high-society. The requirements for the evening were “Black tie, long dresses & Surrealists heads.” The Rothschild family (/ˈrɒθs.tʃaɪld/, German: /ˈʁoːt.ʃɪlt/, French: /ʁɔt...