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The Blooming Soul

March 12, 2025 by Arseny Vesnin in 2025, Art, Events, United Kingdom

The Blooming Soul: An Artistic Act Through the Lens of Botanical Metaphors

From March 12 to 17, 2025, the Eight Squared Gallery in Folkestone hosted the art exhibition "The Blooming Soul: A Celebration of Spring and Nature’s Awakening." This exhibition brought together eight outstanding international artists, each creating their works in various mediums ranging from abstract and figurative art to interactive installations.

The group of artists—Igor Khlopotov, Irina Slepko (Gauk), Iryna Yauseyenka, Mariia Babina, Natalia Titova, Svetlana Sycheva, Victoria Dini, and Yulia Rotkina—explored the interpenetration of artistic methods of understanding reality and various botanical concepts, techniques, methods, and established expressions. This interplay between the artist's symbolic field and the semiotic field of the gardener (botanist, florist, forester, naturalist, etc.) is a key conceptual finding of the exhibition, seemingly aimed at overcoming the fundamental boundaries between spheres of human activity and perception in pursuit of a hypothetical sense of wholeness, interconnectedness, and inseparability.

This exhibition is not merely a statement within the frameworks of unreflected eco-positivism that accompanies us from supermarket to trash bin; it is a bold and successful assertion by young outstanding artists striving for a deeper level of reflection that complements social anxiety with rhetorical intuitions, activist slogans with a metaphysical superstructure, and humanity's longing for nature with a bitter existential poetic humility.

The wide palette of artistic means and techniques, vivid images, and sumptuous colours—depicting themes of germination, the birth of life, the sprouting of seeds, swelling buds, sticky leaves, budding, and vegetative reproduction—poses a complex challenge of creating a non-trivial lexicon of new, previously non-existent symbolic connections that precede future neural ones. This allows us, for example, to transcend superficial sexuality in the imagery of the pistil and stamen and perceive in them a mystical or even religious yearning.
Each of the eight participants in the exhibition developed their paradoxical artistic strategy, revealing and enriching the aforementioned theme. In this article, we would like to focus in more detail on the works of two participants.

Within the exhibition 'The Blooming Soul,' the digital collage works of artist Natalia Titova stand out distinctly. Unlike the other participants, she uses direct visual botanical metaphors less prominently; however, it is this visual elusiveness that renders her works resonant, piercing, and aesthetically sharpened to the maximum. The artist simultaneously constructs and deconstructs, manifests and mythologises, and creates and destroys. Her collage series titled "Tove" serves as a captivating visualisation of the modern artist's thought process as they grapple with themes of life, nature, memory, cultural interactions, and the dissolution of perception boundaries regarding various substances. For instance, in her works, a wired earphone may represent both a sperm cell and a rope for tying, as well as the contour of an unidentified object. A golf club can be interpreted as a grass-cutting scythe, a contour of a fractal universe, and a blade severing a character's legs from the solid ground beneath them.

The subtly botanical metaphorical nature of her works levels all objects of memory against one another, literally endowing each object with the properties of the plant world. A cloud can become the earth from which identical bodies or body parts grow, while air can transform into the ground from which clouds arise. The objects simultaneously serve as items from the real world (coloured) and artefacts of memory, documents of the past (black and white). A dress becomes the sea, an earphone turns into the moon, and suddenly, the late British queen and a naïve monocle appear. Nevertheless, at the top of Natalia Titova's collages, flowers are always positioned, adding a hint of sorrowful hierarchy to her dynamic pluralistic rhizomatic artistic world— "Flowers above all."
The most striking aspect of these digital works is the sensation of lightness and imaginative freedom, albeit this lightness is produced by an inquisitive and critically self-reflective artist. Upon closer inspection, one can recognise the immense labour and meticulous development invested in these works, which imbue the collage compositions with the potential to resemble a Hindu abode of demigods (loka).

 

"On The Road" by Yulia Rotkina is an intricately organised piece of artwork. Upon encountering it, we may succumb to the charm of traditional mediums (canvas, oil), the cosy minimalism of the composition, and the soothing thickness of the brushstrokes; however, this should not obscure from us a whole range of the artist’s identities, which are masterfully concealed in the painting (like seeds in the ground) and reveal themselves, harbouring immense perceptual possibilities. It is this balance of the hidden and the manifest that structures or organises the complex attraction of engaging with the painting's message.

Firstly, one of the artist's identities is that of a critic of binary oppositions. All paired phenomena in this work undergo a process of critical reflection. It is particularly peculiar that the composition reads as a triptych: earth, sky, and the figure of a person. When we attempt to analyse the various elements of the painting in pairs, we find that there are no explicit pairs present. The artist transcends binary thinking through the active use of non-obvious trinaries. In the pair "human and nature," she adds another layer of nature. In the pair "blue and green," she introduces an ambivalent object that can be both blue and green, depending on the perspective.

Another identity of the artist is that of a synaesthetic experimenter. The minimalism of expressive means in Rotkina's work is complemented by a maximalism of perceptual approaches. For instance, the deliberate relief indicates a dynamic and emotional dimension, while the use of a limited palette of complex cool colours sets the tone for the blurring of boundaries and an asserted homogeneity of things. The third identity of the artist is that of a post-storyteller who has abandoned key elements of storytelling but preserved the essence of her narrative message through the vast possibilities of direct silence. Where she remains silent, kaleidoscopes of our viewer interpretation emerge. This work inspires and amazes with its complexity of conceptual development and unparalleled technical execution.

Eight Squared Folkestone
March 12, 2025 /Arseny Vesnin
Russian, British, MAR
2025, Art, Events, United Kingdom

Eclipse by Reine Paradis

March 09, 2025 by Arseny Vesnin in 2025, Art, France, Events, Photography, Portfolios

KÖNIG TELEGRAPHENAMT is pleased to present ECLIPSE, a solo show with new works by French artist Reine Paradis.

Born in 1989 and a graduate of the Gobelins School of Visual Communication in Paris, Reine Paradis has lived and worked in Los Angeles since 2012 – a city of cinema, stories, fantasies, and eternal self-reinvention. It provides the perfect environment for the creation of her works which include photography, painting, film, and sculpture.

Solo show “Eclipse” at “KÖNIG TELEGRAPHENAMT”, Monbijoustraße 13, Berlin: 13 Feb – 15 Mar 2025

Paradis’ process includes several steps, the first of which is the imagination of a scenario. From that vision, she creates a small, collaged maquette on paper. This maquette is used as a blueprint when she scouts for the perfect location to photograph a scene – the scouting process alone can take years. Once a location is found, Paradis designs and creates costumes, props, and her origami-influenced sculptures, which will all be part of the scene. With the help of a partner who shoots the images, Paradis stages herself as the main figure in the work, adding a performative dimension that is essential to her process – “living” the scene allows her to fully transmit her original vision. Unflinching in the face of extreme situations and shielded by a blond wig, she embodies another character as an extension of herself, through which she can experience an alternative life, if only momentarily.

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Editing the photos is a meticulous process completed by Paradis herself, in a game of perspective and depth she projects her world onto ours, changing each individual tone of the image to fit within her minimalist color palette. One usually thinks of photography as a tool to capture reality. We should start from the opposite assumption in the scenes of Reine Paradis. The resulting self-portraits bear witness of her imagination while transporting the viewer into a perfect frame of her world.

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In the same rigorous spirit as her photographic works, Paradis creates paintings that are deeply rooted in memories and places while exploring the simplicity of the language of her surreal universe. Additionally, she transforms some of the origami props from her images into neon-translucent uranium glass sculptures—another dimension to Paradis’ multimedia approach.

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Through the use of these different mediums, Paradis is able to create a world that exists in reality and imagination simultaneously. The use of reflective and transparent materials in her works obscures, reflects, and absorbs light while creating an aurora-like barrier –one that can hide but also illuminate. ECLIPSE, her newest series of works, is an audacious dive into Paradis’ mind, inviting viewers to witness her inexhaustible quest to transcend boundaries.

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The award-winning feature film QUEEN OF PARADIS (Amazon Prime, 2020) follows Paradis on a journey across the United States to complete her previous series MIDNIGHT. The film captures her process from beginning to end in a dramatic adventure that peels the curtain back on how Paradis creates her surreal images. A second feature film, PARADISLAND, which follows the making of the current series ECLIPSE, is set for release in the fall/winter of 2025 for a worldwide theatrical and streaming audience.

@reineparadis
March 09, 2025 /Arseny Vesnin
MAR
2025, Art, France, Events, Photography, Portfolios

OFFF 2024 Campaign

December 19, 2023 by Arseny Vesnin in 2023, OFFF, Events, Spain
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Legendary OFFF festival is planned for three days in Barcelona on April 4, 2024.


Introducing the OFFF 2024 creative campaign teaser: LIFFFE/FFFORMS. The concept unveils an abstract family of living forms derived from the feelings and emotions we share in our everyday lives as creative people.

The vision of the OFFF 2024 campaign has been brought to life by a talented global team: the visionary minds at ManvsMachine, responsible for the concept & creative execution, and Resonate, who masterfully shaped the sound design.

OFFF 2024 Line up
December 19, 2023 /Arseny Vesnin /Source
DEC
2023, OFFF, Events, Spain

Maxim Zhestkov

Simulation Hypothesis

Simulation Hypothesis by Maxim Zhestkov at Unit London

Unit London
June 22, 2023 by Arseny Vesnin in 2023, Digital Art, Events, United Kingdom

20 June - 22 July 2023
Unit London

 

Unit London proudly presents Maxim Zhestkov’s debut solo exhibit, Simulation Hypothesis - a profound and immersive delve into the interconnection between artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and our human roots. Inspired by Noam Chomsky's thought-provoking literature, Zhestkov seeks to surpass the limitations of language by painting and creating art that explores originality and storytelling in novel ways.

 

Inspired by pre-historic cultures of cave art and ancient bas-reliefs, artist Zhestkov uses programming and software to create simulations that explore the visuality of a time before written language. By fusing machines and algorithms with Artificial Intelligence, he hopes to reshape the perception of AI from adversary to descendent of human consciousness. His current exhibit takes viewers on a conceptual journey through Clouds of Creation—a large-scale projection reenacting the Big Bang—and Dimensional Dreamscapes, which suggests that humanity’s desire to create, build, and alter the world is in harmony with primary cosmic energy.

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June 22, 2023 /Arseny Vesnin /Source
Zhestkov Maxim, British, JUN
2023, Digital Art, Events, United Kingdom

Forgotten Landscapes: How Artists Reflect on and Embrace the Rift Between Humanity and Nature

March 18, 2023 by Arseny Vesnin in 2023, Art, Events, Russia

From March 15 to 16, 2023, the Moscow gallery Glubina hosted the exhibition "Forgotten Landscapes," curated by Narmina Askerova. This large-scale artistic event brought together works from 14 visual artists and photographers, along with a grand conceptual audio-literary performance titled "Lost in Between" by artist and writer Elena Timokhina. "Forgotten Landscapes" was dedicated to the artistic exploration of the existential rift between humanity and nature in the broadest sense. The participants in the exhibition, upon discovering this rift, took on various roles: explorers of the rift, apologists of the rift, mourners for the eras preceding this rift, researchers of the rift, and so on. The distance between modern humanity and nature turned out to be a rich field of potential meanings, a mystery, and a resource for drawing both inspiration and despair. "Forgotten Landscapes" serves as a multifaceted manifestation of the inevitable separation, where the positions and roles of people and natural phenomena are interchangeable and elusive, attempting to comprehend the irreversibility of this rift as both a socially nostalgic and eschatological phenomenon. Although the entire event represented a captivating cascade of artistic and performative delight, in this article we would like to focus on four participants who, in our opinion, realised the most distinctive and bold artistic concepts.

“Crying Tree” by Victoria Skutina

 The reflection of the sprawling branches of an autumn leafless tree on a thin layer of water resting on some object in an urban environment. Ripples spreading from raindrops. Sandy park soil. Photographer Victoria Skutina sees the meaning of the rift between humanity and nature in the endless multiplication and deformation of reflections. According to her artistic concept, this rift has arisen due to the fundamental geometric difference between human-made fruits and those of the natural environment. Where nature is complex, fractal, and resists being divided into Euclidean primitives, the human dimension gravitates toward local, predictable forms and images. Of course, Skutina goes beyond merely observing that the surrounding environment is unconsciously complex, while human creation is consciously simple; nonetheless, this is an important assertion. Through her mesmerising and razor-sharp works, the photographer illustrates that this binary opposition exists but seemingly overcomes itself through the effect of one pole's reflection in another. A tree growing by itself can be mirrored on an ugly iron or concrete circle performing obscure social functions. The reflection of the tree is ephemeral, becoming a projection of one world onto another. Yes, this projection can easily lose its clarity with the breeze or a sudden downpour. However, it also signifies that the rift is theoretically surmountable or that it can be reconstructed by focusing on other, less noticeable connections between things and worlds.

 

"Nature" by Kseniia Chumakova

According to Kseniia Chumakova, the main point of conflict in the rupture between nature and humanity lies not in creating a parallel "human ecosystem" in opposition to the natural habitat. It goes deeper and finds this rupture primarily in humanity's refusal to closely examine what surrounds them. It seems as if humans have fundamentally chosen not to contemplate natural things and to ignore what they do not understand within them. The rupture occurred when humans began to see in nature only what they chose to see. Consequently, Kseniia Chumakova's artistic project appears to be based on restoring to humans the motivation and time to contemplate nature. Her photograph "Nature" is both simple and complex, modest and provocative, compelling one to gaze into it. It seems to insistently exclaim, Identify me! Classify me! Find an explanation for me! This insistence emanating from the concise image of natural texture resembles the calls of New Age coaches demanding a break from the automatism of everyday life. Yet, Kseniia Chumakova also deconstructs this approach. She respectfully acknowledges that the human psyche optimises processes. Her works do not call for total mindfulness, grounding in bodily processes, or working with blind spots. On the contrary, she constructs meditative attractions that should work if not instantly, then in a very short time, rather than becoming a painful ordeal of yet another self-proclaimed course on transforming life in 21 days.

 

 “Autumn Jungle” by Yuri Kurganski

Yuri Kurganski is not only a talented digital artist but also a remarkable combination of ironic softness and romanticism. Where other artists become sarcastic and cut through the truth, he seeks opportunities to nurture lyricism, pastoral beauty, and humanity. His vision of the rift between nature and humanity is the most extravagant and touching. In his works, especially in “Autumn Jungle,” he comes to the realisation that it is not humanity that has severed its ties with nature but rather nature that has withdrawn into the shadows. Nature, not humanity, initiates the separation. The silent nature is both a mysterious, estranged figure and a mother all at once. Nature is present here, and yet it is absent at the same time. Nature has allowed humans to separate, but it continuously reminds them of its presence through traces and messages. The image of a glowing—almost biblical—tree amidst a dark artificial park, which resembles more of a model or a box filled with plastic trees, inexplicably stirs the heart and contains a powerful critical charge. This critique is subtle, non-obligatory, and indirect, yet it strikes directly at the mark. The rift exists; it is a paradigmatic event, but Yuri Kurganski seems to express on behalf of humanity that yes, we are still not ready for a complete break. We are probing at the unhealed wounds of our bodies and souls; we recall the golden age, but in truth, we have lost it not due to our own fault.

 

"Lost in Between" by Elena Timokhina

Elena Timokhina operates through a radical and breathtaking amalgamation of performative techniques: physical absence, deconstruction of verbal flow, semantic ambiguity, and post-dramatic structures. However, she does not deny the theme of rupture; instead, she complicates it, finding new depths and possibilities. Her performance becomes a crucial meta-commentary on the exhibition in particular and the global artistic process in general. Elena Timokhina conceptually chose to dwell in the interdisciplinary gap, yet she appropriates this rupture, which means she does not divide herself into human, nature, artist, performer, and writer. The main value of her work lies in the radical acceptance of herself and her lacunae. Her practice outlines new horizons for contemporary art and modern literature, horizons that are daunting to explore, but we must.

The key event of the two-day event "Forgotten Landscapes" was the audio-literary performance "Lost in Between" by writer, artist, and performer Elena Timokhina. This processual, meditative, and cross-genre work combined sound design, spoken word, and immersive participatory practices. The performance literally bridged the exhibition space, conceptual poles, the audience as a liminal entity, and the gallery space. Through her performance, Elena Timokhina summarised one of the main yet unspoken discoveries in understanding the rift between humanity and nature—within this rift, there are also fractures. This non-trivial idea arises in other gaps, in the divides between the possibilities of artistic mediums, in the divides between artists who seem united by the collective body of the exhibition but localised within their personal bodies.

March 18, 2023 /Arseny Vesnin
MAR
2023, Art, Events, Russia

OFFF 2023

February 14, 2023 by Arseny Vesnin in 2023, OFFF, Spain, Events

On March 23, 24 and 25 OFFF returns, the festival of reference that shows the latest trends in the field of creativity and design.

 

The festival will be held on March 23, 24 and 25 at Disseny Hub Barcelona, a few weeks earlier than usual, since in April the digital art exhibition "Digital Impact" will be held at the same venue for the first time.

 
 

The festival presents a powerful lineup in its 22nd edition, bringing together a total of 65 speakers linked to the field of creativity, design, visual art and digital culture from countries such as the UK, USA, Canada, Germany, Mexico, Netherlands and Spain. Among the special invited artists are Alex Trochut, Brian Collins, Eddie Opara, Found, Framestore, Timothy Goodman, Gemma O'Brien, the iconic David Carson, Joshua Davis, James Victore and State, among many others.

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OFFF 2023 Visual Campaign

OFFF, the festival renowned for constant change and diversity, is proud to announce its latest creative representation for 2023: “Cube.” “Cube” embodies the amazement and surprise artists evoke from the audience and begins with a set of rooms symbolising the diversity of the festival's speakers and artists' creative practices.

The OFFF's “Cube” campaign was brought to life by a team specially assembled for this purpose, consisting of Vasava, Barcelona (concept and creative execution), Found, London (CGI and motion), and Combustion, São Paulo (sound design and music). With its visually stunning and thought-provoking concept, OFFF 2023 promises to be a truly inspiring event that celebrates diversity, constant change, and the power of creativity.

February 14, 2023 /Arseny Vesnin
FEB
2023, OFFF, Spain, Events

Maxim Zhestkov presents his first solo show WAVES at London’s W1 Curates

August 17, 2022 by Arseny Vesnin in 2022, Art, Digital Art, Events, Russia, United Kingdom

On August 18, 2022, the first solo exhibition of digital artist Maxim Zhestkov, titled Waves, will illuminate every surface of London’s W1 Curates exhibition space — inside and out. With new work displayed across the facade’s 3 floors of screens and on every wall of the interior, Maxim will make his London debut via an immersive digital art experience in the commercial heart of the city.

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Waves meditates on its titular phenomena as the fundamental elements of change in digital and physical systems; waves merge, waves disrupt, and, if synchronized enough, they acquire system-shifting force. Cultural shifts, spiritual breakthroughs, and wi-fi connections can all be better understood as products of the interactions of waves. As physical and digital systems become less and less distinct, the ability to acknowledge similarities between the two can make our everyday thoughts more creative.

Maxim’s broader oeuvre is built on conceptual investigations of the building blocks of physical and digital worlds. Each work is an effort to transform a fundamental principle of creation into a rousing spectacle.

“It is fascinating how structures could be assembled by themselves,
following the basic underlying rules of our world. Any material, including living matter, forms using the
same set of rules, and I think that this is something that we take for granted, but it is truly astonishing
when you think about it.”
— Maxim Zhestkov
““[W1 Curates is] a public art platform dedicated to bridging the gap between digital art and the traditional art world. Maxim’s artwork lends itself so well to our space, and it’s an honour to share new work from a true pioneer of digital art who remains so passionate about
the potential of virtual worlds.”
— Mark Dale, founder of W1 Curates

Artist Statement

A wave— a disturbance of the established order — encompasses dynamics as an inherent part of our world. Waves bring the change, oscillations, and fluctuations, which spread across objects and connect them to entangled networks of all interrelated and continuous events. Inseparable from distortions, they are themselves messages that indicate transformations and shifts.
Waves are primary signals permeating the world and a universal language of nature that underlies both our biological and technological systems. By covering the world with webs of electromagnetic signals, we have expanded our neural systems and can now connect with others able to decipher the coded messages. Interfering and merging, waves change their nature and — when synchronized — grow and transform into a greater entity with the potential to generate a transformative flux.

Connecting particles into mighty flows, Waves is an examination of shifts of energy in complicated systems that lead to the inevitable transformation of those systems. Simulated by an algorithm, the world of this digital artwork is intentionally simplistic and therefore inextricably predictable. However, the rules and principles of this visual complexity are hidden from the viewer, much like the incomprehensible quantum phenomena that define the physical world.
The only thing certain about our world is that it is changing constantly. Nevertheless, eternal movement includes repetition, and transformation is cyclical. Between extremes of peaks, no path is linear, and every shift echoes across time.

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About the Artist

Maxim Zhestkov (b. 1985) is a digital artist based in London. He merges his studies in architecture, sculpture, motion graphics, color, and sound, to dramatize the intersection of the digital and the physical as a critical site for imagining the aesthetic possibilities and psychological implications of a “phygital” reality. Working as an independent designer, Maxim has worked with clients like Adidas, IKEA, BMW, Google, Playstation and Adobe and has been awarded with many industry awards: a Red Dot Award, D&AD, iF Design Award and the ADC Award.
Maxim Zhestkov’s work has been presented internationally in shows at major institutions, including Decentral Art Pavilion Venice (2022), Unit London (2021), Contemporary Istanbul (2021), MIT (2019), Modern Art Museum, Shanghai (2019), and the Hermitage Museum (2019). Maxim’s work has also shown at contemporary art festivals, such as Cosmoscow (2021), ART021 (2020), ArtBasel Miami (2019), and Ars Electronica Festival (2018).

About W1 Curates

W1 Curates is a public art platform located at the heart of London’s iconic Oxford Street. W1 Curates showcases works from some of the world’s most innovative visual artists. Using state-of-the-art technology, the exterior of the Flannels London Flagship store has been transformed into an extraordinary public exhibition of art with digital prowess and exceptional innovation. The venue consists of a three-story facade of screens and, as of August 2022, an all-new exhibition space consisting of a 400 square-metre immersive gallery space lined with 360 degrees of bespoke LED screens.
W1 Curates has displayed work from the likes of Tracey Emin, Jeff Koons, Kaws, Shepard Fairey, Tyler Mitchell, David LaChapelle, Whisbe, Katherine Bernhardt, MrStarCity, David Bailey, Vhils, and many others. It has also collaborated with the likes of Gagosian, Sotheby’s, Saatchi Yates, Tate Modern, and Artsy. W1 Curates has also hosted Ravensbourne University London, NFT UK, Amplifier Art, and Graduate Fashion Week.

August 17, 2022 /Arseny Vesnin
Zhestkov Maxim, Russian, British
2022, Art, Digital Art, Events, Russia, United Kingdom

Digital Decade SE 2020

July 08, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Digital Art, Digital Decade, Events, United Kingdom, Russia

Special Edition of Digital Decade

Sedition + Designcollector

Digital Decade SE 2020 is the latest in the Digital Decade series of events by DesignCollector. Digital Decade is the brainchild of Designcollector founder Arseny Vesnin, who has curated and coordinated public phygital art events in London, St Petersburg and Barcelona since 2013. Since then Designcollector have presented the work of more than 150 pioneering, exploratory and celebrated artists working between the physical and the digital, as well as partnering with organisations including OFFF, Ello, Depositphotos and FutureFest.

On 8 July a new collection of digital editions curated by Designcollector Creative Network launches on Sedition. The exhibition features works by Krista Kim, Aristarkh Chernyshev, Eliška Sky, Azamat Akhmadbaev, Joëlle Snaith, Dimitri Daniloff and Grégoire A. Meyer. 

Virtual Exhibition available by the link below

Virtual Exhibition available by the link below

Digital Decade events are live artistic responses to current changes (geopolitical, environmental, social) influencing life in the digital age. For the latest iteration, held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, artists have creative speculative and critical comments on how phygital life may change post-pandemic. The artists participating present works in a range of media including photography, audiovisual collaborations, 3D digital sculptures and animation

Krista Kim
Krista Kim

Continuum remix v.1 (w/ Ligovskoï and Efren Mur) (video)

Grégoire A. Meyer
Grégoire A. Meyer

When The Drape Falls

Eliška Sky
Eliška Sky

Ultrahumans (video)

Dimitri Daniloff
Dimitri Daniloff

Human Unlimited

Azamat Akhmadbaev
Azamat Akhmadbaev

Bite tongue, deep breaths

Aristarkh Chernyshev
Aristarkh Chernyshev

No Color, No Taste, No Odour, or Critical Update
ISOLATION

Joëlle Snaith
Joëlle Snaith

Distortion (video)

Krista Kim Grégoire A. Meyer Eliška Sky Dimitri Daniloff Azamat Akhmadbaev Aristarkh Chernyshev Joëlle Snaith

On 8 July Designcollector release Digital Decade SE 2020, featuring seven digital limited edition artworks, available to collect on Sedition as a full set or individually. The works can also be experienced in a VR exhibition which features a mixtape by Ben Paul

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July 08, 2020 /Arseny Vesnin
JUL, British, Russian, Krista Kim, Joelle Snaith, Aristarkh Chernyshev, Azamat Akhmadbaev, Dimitri Daniloff, Eliska Sky, Gregoire A Meyer, Vesnin Arseny, DCN Club
2020, Digital Art, Digital Decade, Events, United Kingdom, Russia

Virtual Installation by Salomé Chatriot Samuel Fasse @salomechatriot and @samuelfasse

SPACED IN LOST - Virtual Exhibition

April 03, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Digital Art, Events, France

As the world continuously moving towards unknown and uncertainty, people starting migrating online. The first cohort to reflect on any social/climate changes at any times of history and Now is - Artists. “LONELY” is a debut online show from SPACED IN LOST platform initiated by artist  Filip-Andreas @Skrapic curated by Yvannoé Kruger @yvannoe with production by Socle Collections @socle.collections and run by @victorguenard with @lucafixy

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In these times of introspection and inner experiences this journey invites us to explore certain dimensions of solitude. What projects, what works of art, even what friends do we imagine within four walls?

How can artists help us to live and understand this new daily life? This exhibition is entirely modelled in 3D and can be viewed from the comfort of your own home.

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It is a space specially designed for the occasion, populated with works that the artists have designed and adapted from a distance in an extremely short time.

In order to make these digital spaces, often too arid, a little more humane, the artists have recorded a few messages that you will be able to discover in the exhibition.

Enter Virtual Exhibition on spacedinlost.com

@spacedinlost
April 03, 2020 /Arseny Vesnin
APR
2020, Digital Art, Events, France

Zhuang Hong Yi at HOFA Gallery

New HOFA
February 28, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Events, United Kingdom
 
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Zhuang Hong Yi
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Zhuang Hong Yi Headlines Official Launch of HOFA Gallery’s New State-of-the-Art Flagship Gallery in Mayfair, London (18 March 2020)

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In what is set to be a defining moment in London’s art scene this year, HOFA Gallery will launch their new flagship space in the heart of London’s prestigious Mayfair on 18 March 2020. The highly anticipated state-of-the-art 4000 sq. ft space will see HOFA make their permanent mark on the art world to the delight of collectors and enthusiasts in London and international art markets.  

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HOFA will commemorate the launch with an inaugural exhibition featuring a new and innovative collection of captivating and vibrant sculptural paintings of renowned contemporary artist, Zhuang Hong Yi. Colourful, exquisitely detailed and inspired by nature, Zhuang’s 3-dimensional paintings have been a favourite with collectors since his emergence as an artist of reckoning. His ‘Flowerbed’ and ‘Landscape’ series have won him the attention of art connoisseurs globally.

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Zhuang’s newest and most daring explorations of colour and structure within these series will make their début at the March 2020 solo exhibition. Developed in his signature sculptural style which captures his visceral expressions on canvas, the art to be unveiled highlight Zhuang’s journey of artistic discovery and self-development. The show promises to mark a major milestone in the evolution of this artist whose work endlessly fascinate and intrigue even as they harken to the sometimes-chaotic beauty of nature.

HOFA Gallery has built a reputation for representing ground-breaking contemporary artists and producing some of the most well-received art exhibitions of recent times in their galleries spread across London, Los Angeles and Mykonos. Their current portfolio of 30 global artists includes headline names such as Marco Grassi, Joseph Klibanksy, Camille Hannah, Emmanuella Rybojad and Loribelle Spirovski as well as other acclaimed Asian artists like Ilhwa Kim and Wang Ziling. 

Founded by Elio D'Anna and Simonida Pavicevic in 2012, HOFA Gallery has grown exponentially in a few years, largely due to their commitment to diversity and foresight in supporting talented emerging artists from around the world. HOFA's rich portfolio of artworks in diverse media has also proven to be a strong selling point as it affords collectors and art lovers a taste of the various artistic disciplines that characterise contemporary art today.

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The scheduled launch of the flagship gallery has been years in the making. Describing the significance of the event, co-founder, Elio D'Anna, says "From this year we will be in a better position to bring the most exceptional contemporary artworks to the world’s stage, and create lasting success for the artists who created them and our collectors who acquire them. Our vision is to nurture diversity and cultural inclusiveness in the world of contemporary art through excellence, integrity and innovation.

 

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HOFA’s new gallery is located at 11 Bruton Street in Mayfair, London. The inaugural exhibition features Zhuang Hong Yi’s new collection from 18 March to 7 April 2020.

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February 28, 2020 /Arseny Vesnin /Source
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2020, Art, Events, United Kingdom

Kara Walker's Fons Americanus

October 29, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, United Kingdom, Events, USA, Portfolios
“My work has always been a time machine looking backwards across decades and centuries to arrive at some understanding of my “place” in the contemporary moment.”
— Kara Walker

Fons Americanus is a 13-metre tall working fountain inspired by the Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace, London. Created by artist Kara Walker for the 2019 Hyundai Commission, it is one of the most ambitious installations in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall to date.

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Rather than a celebration of the British Empire, Walker’s fountain explores the interconnected histories of Africa, America and Europe. She uses water as a key theme, referring to the transatlantic slave trade and the ambitions, fates and tragedies of people from these three continents. Fantasy, fact and fiction meet at an epic scale.

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Based in New York, Kara Walker is acclaimed for her candid explorations of race, sexuality and violence. She is best known for her use of black cut-paper silhouetted figures, referencing the history of slavery and the antebellum South in the US through provocative and elaborate installations.

Fons Americanus is on display at Tate Modern until 5 April 2020. You can explore the artwork in more detail on @tate

@kara_walker_official
October 29, 2019 /Arseny Vesnin
American, OCT
2019, Art, United Kingdom, Events, USA, Portfolios

Pause Fest 2019 - A New Hope

February 05, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in Agencies, Advertising, Digital Art, Motioncollector, Russia, Australia, Events, 2019

A collaboration between Russian post-production studio LOOP and number of talented artists resulted as a motion reel for the Pause Fest 2019 starting this days in Melbourne.

’A New Hope' is a challenging metaphor for everyone affected by the tech age that still considers some developments today as normal in our culture, traditions and society. We are not programmed well enough to foresee what the exponential technology can do to our society. How much are we going to pay for all bad decisions that we are making today? ‘A New Hope’ digs deep into our worst nightmares and what could happen if we loose control over those exponential tech advances. This video depicts how popularity mixed with power can easily transform our society into unpleasant and dangerous place. We have a high hope that our collective consciousness will drive us to a much brighter, safer, happier, inclusive and prosperous place.

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Credits:

Directed by Loop

Creative Directors: Alex Mikhaylov, Max Chelyadnikov
Art Director: Alex Mikhaylov
CG Supervisor: Max Chelyadnikov
Concept Artists: Daniel Hahn, Dmitriy Rabochiy, Evgeniy Kashin, Evgeny Park, Heavy Unit, Daniel Solovev, Dmitry Tsmokh, Maxim Romantsov
Modelling, Texturing Artists: E.D. Satan, Dmitriy Paukov, Valentine Sorokin, Roman Senko, Filipp Gorbachev, Pavel Burylov, Valerii Sendetskyi
Animators: Dmitriy Paukov, Sergey Nezhentsev, Artemy Perevertin
Rendering Artists: Max Chelyadnikov, Filipp Gorbachev
2D Artists: Denis Khramov, Eugene Pylinsky
Compositing: Max Chelyadnikov

Soundtrack: Zelig Sound

@loop_moscow
February 05, 2019 /Arseny Vesnin
Russian, FEB
Agencies, Advertising, Digital Art, Motioncollector, Russia, Australia, Events, 2019

Meet Digital Decade x FutureFest Shortlist and Winners

June 21, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Decade, United Kingdom, Events, Digital Art, 2018

Designcollector and FutureFest (by Nesta, London) present “Future Selves”, a special edition of the annual “phygital” art collaboration where Digital Decade was looking for Ello Artists to submit artworks (1 - 18 June) and imagine how we may reinvent and edit our identities in the future. The call was reflecting on one of the main programming areas of this year’s FutureFest, ‘Alternative You’. The best 3 artworks selected by 20 members of prominent Jury Panel will be part of a pop-up exhibition at the festival alongside other artworks (from Digital Decade Cyberia 2017) curated by Designcollector Network. The popup exhibition of 12 Artworks take place on 6-7th July at London’s Tobacco Dock and will look at the future of our ever evolving identities at the intersection of real and digital worlds.

SHORTLIST

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Daniel Ignacio
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Jaime Lopez Cano
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Tajana Dedić-Starović
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Polygon
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Leah Smithson
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Marcia Gamma
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Anne de Groot
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Novans Adikresna
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Sopho Babuadze
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Lisa Kimberly
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Alexy Prefontaine
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Sephora Venites
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Damien Himalayev
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Alycia Rainaud
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Dario Veruari
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Eugene Golovanchuk
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Connor Daly
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Mayukh Goswami
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Jarid Scott
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Winners of Ello Artist Invite

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Selected Artists

Future Selves is a pop up exhibition curated by Designcollector Network in partnership with Ello. It’s a special edition of the annual “phygital” art collaboration, Digital Decade which showcases the work of a new generation of visual artists. For this occasion we selected 9 artists from Digital Decade Cyberia 2017, to join the 3 winners of Ello Artists Invite

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Popup Exhibition at FutureFest 18
6 - 7 July, London

Tobacco Dock, Wapping Lane, London E1W 2SF
East Mall Passage

 

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About Digital Decade
Digital Decade is an annual recurring collaboration and exhibition run by Designcollector Network and partners devoted to emerging artists around the world it provides a platform for a new generation of artists who are shaping the current discourse of contemporary art and visual culture. Digital Decade was launched in 2013 at OFFF Festival in Barcelona and has returned there for the following two years. Since then Digital Decade has appeared as a standalone exhibition in London featuring 50 artists at Ugly Duck, Bermondsey in 2017.

 

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June 21, 2018 /Arseny Vesnin
JUN
Digital Decade, United Kingdom, Events, Digital Art, 2018

Future Selves

Digital Decade x FutureFest Special Edition

Digital Decade: Future Selves

June 04, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Decade, Events, 2018

Designcollector and FutureFest (by Nesta, London)
present “Future Selves”, a special edition of the annual art collaboration baked by Ello Creative Network

Digital Decade x FutureFest is looking now for Ello Artists to submit artworks and imagine how we may reinvent and edit our identities in the future. The call is reflecting on one of the main programming areas of this year’s FutureFest, ‘Alternative You’.

The best 3 artworks will be part of a pop-up exhibition at the festival alongside other retrospective artworks selected from "Cyberia, 2017". The exhibition will take place on 6-7th July at London’s Tobacco Dock and will look at the future of our ever evolving identities at the intersection of real and digital worlds.

Submit your works till June 18 to be featured at the pop-up exhibition “Future Selves” during FutureFest taking place on July 6 - 7 at London’s Tobacco Dock.

Winners also get a free pass to the festival

 
Ello
FutureFest
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About FutureFest
FutureFest is the flagship festival from Nesta - a global innovation foundation that backs new ideas to tackle the big challenges of our time: from the pressures of an ageing population to stretched public services and a fast-changing jobs market. Using knowledge, networking, funding and innovation skills, Nesta grows new ideas that can change the world for the better.
https://www.futurefest.org
Since 2013, FutureFest has attracted more than 9,000 visitors - with the community for each festival growing from 1,000 to 4,500 attendees. 2018 edition (July 6-7) has estimated over 5,000 attendees.
Location: renovated Tobacco Dock, London
Festival theme: Occupy Future

 

About Digital Decade
Digital Decade is an annual recurring collaboration and exhibition run by Designcollector Network and partners devoted to emerging artists around the world it provides a platform for a new generation of artists who are shaping the current discourse of contemporary art and visual culture. Digital Decade was launched in 2013 at OFFF Festival in Barcelona and has returned there for the following two years. Since then Digital Decade has appeared as a standalone exhibition in London featuring 50 artists at Ugly Duck, Bermondsey in 2017.
http://digitaldecade.net

About Ello
Ello is The Creators Network, a socially-powered publishing and collaboration platform supporting a global community of artists. Founded in 2013 by a small group of art & design professionals, Ello provides a creative oasis for artists and their fans while empowering artist x brand collaboration via our Artist Invites program.
http://ello.co

 

June 04, 2018 /Arseny Vesnin /Source
JUN
Digital Decade, Events, 2018

Motion Motion 2018 Visual Identity by nöbl studio

April 24, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Agencies, Branding, Graphic Design, France, Events, Typography, 2018, Glitch

Motion Motion is the first event dedicated to the motion design and meanwhile, opened to all audiences. One day in Nantes (FR) with conferences, installations, workshops and concerts for everyone.
nöbl created the festival 2018 whole identity and craft the trailer by playing with a distorted typography treatment:

As the motion design, the concept of this identity talks about graphic design and movement. We choose to play with the most impactful visual system "typography" and then put it literally in movement.

Visual Identity by nöbl

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Agencies, Branding, Graphic Design, France, Events, Typography, 2018, Glitch

FITC Toronto 2018 Titles dir. Joshua Davis & Saad Moosajee

April 17, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Motioncollector, Canada, Events, 2018

The title sequence for FITC Toronto 2018 is built on the theme of Transform. It aims to morph the spatial perception of its viewers as it takes them through a constantly shifting, never-ending journey into a series of patterns, landscapes, and environments that exist between two and three dimensional space. In each world, 2D and 3D programmatic processes are combined to create rich, organic animations and sprawling graphic forms.

Directed by: Joshua Davis & Saad Moosajee
Animated by: Saad Moosajee
Technical Director: James Bartolozzi
Programming: Joshua Davis, James Bartolozzi
Supporting Animation: Enle Li

Sound: Kurt Uenala / Null + Void / Song : Into the Void / Album : hfnmusic.lnk.to/Cryosleep

April 17, 2018 /Arseny Vesnin
APR
Motioncollector, Canada, Events, 2018

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EMPOWERMENT: Exhibition by Creative Debuts ╳ Nasty Women

Creative Debuts
March 16, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Events, Motioncollector, United Kingdom, 2018

Our friends and partners Creative Debuts are famous for organising neat art events in London being the gatekeepers of the creative scene online. To celebrate International Women’s Day they joined forces with Nasty Women movement to celebrate the work of international feminist artists.

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Artists Exhibited


Mercedes Marin - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/mercedes-marin
Naomi Vona - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/naomi-vona
Natasha Monfared - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/natasha-monfared
Nia Hefe Filliogianni - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/nia-hefe-filiogianni
Nina Schulze - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/nina-schulze
Olivia Rose - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/olivia-rose
ONOH - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/o-noh
Onuchukwu Okezie Emmanuel -
www.creativedebuts.co.uk/ozed_arts
Pal Kumar - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/pal-kumar
Patricia Brace - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/patricia-brace
Queenie Djan - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/queenie-djan
Rayvenn Shaleigh D'Clark - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/rayvenn-shaleigha-dclark
Roshani Patel - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/roshani-patel
Ruby Rowan Gleeson - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/ruby-rowan-gleeson
Ryan Oakley - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/ryan-oakley
Sanya Torkmorad-Jozavi - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/sanya-torkmorad-jozavi
Tabitha Carver - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/tabitha-carver
Timothy Martin - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/viagra-vuitton
Zoe Alexandria Paton Burt - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/zoe-burt

Airco Caravan - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/artists/airco-caravan
Ana Rosa Louis - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/ana-rosa-louis
Angharad Pelling -www.creativedebuts.co.uk/angharad-pelling
Ashton Attzs - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/ashton-attzs
Caley Holmboe - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/caley-holmboe
Catherine Howell - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/catherine-howell
Chavaga Lilya - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/lilya-chavaga
Chewon Kim - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/chewon-kim
Diane Watson - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/diane-watson
Eve De Haan - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/eve-de-haan
Flora Weil - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/flora-weil
Floss Given - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/florence-given
Francena Ottley - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/lebleuart
Helena Cardow - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/helena-cardow
Isabel Rock - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/isabel-rock
Jasmine Sehra - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/jasmin-sehra
Jekein Lato-Unah - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/jekein-lato-unah
Jessica Ross - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/jessica-ross
Kei Maye - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/kei-maye
Ken Nwadiogbu - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/ken-nwadiogbu
Lila Ash - www.creativedebuts.co.uk/lila-ash

@creativedebuts
 
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Creative Debuts, British, MAR
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YSL Beautē ╳ Pokras Lampas: Calligraffiti Performance

March 09, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, Events, Russia, Street Art, 2018
 
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To present their recent fragrance for men  YSL Beauté asked the renowned Russian calligraphy master Pokras Lampas to set a performance during their Moscow leg of the international Y campaign. The challenge was not new for Pokras - 2 Hours, 5 Meters "Y" letter and 1 Artist in made his own epic #calligrafuturism manner

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“Performance Arts — a special mix of skills, emotions and unpredicted things.
I love to challenge myself with the projects where randomness replaces any boundaries of comfort.

Climb up 5 meters to paint a huge letter “ Y “ ?
Why not. Keep it on tight timings? Great, there is gonna be a lot of paint splashes.
Any experiments is an invaluable experience and emotions from the result and the process of creation.”
— Pokras Lampas
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Advertising, Events, Russia, Street Art, 2018

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Stronger Than Time: G-class 1979 inside "Amber" Cube

January 17, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, Art, Cars, Events, Motioncollector, Germany, USA, Sculpture, 2018

Mercedes-Benz encases its 1979’s G-class inside a gigantic “amber” (44 tons of coloured resin, 90 days in production) cube at NAIAS 2018 Detroit show. Created by Antoni agency with video production from Markenfilm-Crossing

The 1979 model of the G-class is enclosed in 44.4 tones of synthetic resin

"The piece symbolizes the timelessness of the off-road legend and makes a conscious reference to the natural phenomenon of insects preserved in amber. With it, the german auto manufacturer wants to portray through an art piece that these characteristics have been handed down from generation to generation, making it the perfect symbol for the premier of the classic’s newest version."

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January 17, 2018 /Arseny Vesnin /Source
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Advertising, Art, Cars, Events, Motioncollector, Germany, USA, Sculpture, 2018

The 50 Digital Artists we curated offline in 2017

December 27, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Decade, Digital Art, Events, United Kingdom, Art, 2017

Instead of doing our classic Cream of the Top we decided to look back and underline the best thing we did this year. Definitely it was the 5th instalment of Digital Decade collaboration with 50 artists (let's say top artists of 2017 by our version) that ended in August as a group show of Phygital Art in London. And it wouldn't happen without a great support of the partners listed below:

ELLO
Curioos
Sedition Art
Ugly Duck
LUWA
Virtually Mine

Curated by Arseny Vesnin

The concept of Digital Decade5: Cyberia was “the Unknown Territories Shaped by the Digital Ethnos”. This, “Ethnos” refers to the generation of digital people that are changing our world, and continuing to influence our culture. As our world becomes increasingly digital, it ultimately transforms to become a ‘Cyberia’.

Identity of Cyberia

The whole identity of Digital Decade 5 was created by famous artist Ruslan Khasanov who has recently won ADC Young Gun 15 Award and Behance selected him to decorate their own Behance Decade :)

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First us then Apple

The curator of Digital Decade and Designcollector founder Arseny Vesnin was happy enough to cross path with leading artist Shane Griffin whose works you can see on iPhone X and 8 now. But long before this, he created a special artwork for Cyberia collaboration

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Aristarkh Chernyshev, Loading, 2007

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The idea to get on board one of the pioneer of digital art - Aristarkh Chernyshev came to me after I revisited "Electronic Superhighway" exhibition in Whitechapel in 2016. That's how we got his famous electric marquee artwork to the walls of Cyberia exhibition

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Improvised Cinema at Digital Decade 5

Video Art went high

This year Digital Decade was expanded not only with VR installations but with a whole new world of Video Art. Together with our new partners - Sedition Art we came up with a Collaboration Call for Arms and selected 5 Artist to join our exhibition.





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Exhibition Artists

The idea of a phygital (digital with physical) art was fully evolved during the exhibition by inviting talented VR artists. Together with the help of Virtually Mine Ltd we installed immersive installations of 

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Anna Neklesa

ELLO x DCN

The whole event wouldn't happen without a massive support from Ello Creative Network and we are really happy to roll into 2018 affair with them. During the first month of summer together with 20 Jury Members we shortlisted 60 artists  and selected 10 winners whose artworks joined our exhitibition

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Fill Ryabchikov
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Stay Hungry, Stay Curioos

The whole event featured 15 installation artists and 35 print artists including the winners above. Together with our best partners at Curioos we selected 25 artists to join the search of Cyberia on the "Unknown territories shaped by the Digital Ethnos" 

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Matthew Custar
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Max Sobkowski
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Rik Oostenbroek
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Shane Griffin
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Sasha Katz
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Digital Decade 5 was hosted by Ugly Duck space as a part of their Creative Seasons program. Ugly Duck is a London Based social enterprise that revitalises empty and underused buildings, and open them up for creative uses. Ugly Duck has also been used as unusual locations for films, photoshoots, and events.

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Exhibition Catalogue

There is no good exhibition without collectible catalogue of featured artists. Digital Decade 2017 is no exception and you can still support us by ordering the catalogue to your doors.

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December 27, 2017 /Arseny Vesnin
British, DEC, Aristarkh Chernyshev, Louise Mertens, Sedition, Joelle Snaith, Kulikova Elena, Vesnin Arseny
Digital Decade, Digital Art, Events, United Kingdom, Art, 2017
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