3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
“God is in details”, one can say about minimalistic approaches to creativity. But sometimes, excessive details drive a bigger picture for an artist’s imaginative world. If you come across Esra Elsen's artworks, you may understand the oversaturated level of detail. Painstakingly created sometimes following a “pixelboy’s” isometric grid Esra artworks hit you from the very first time.
Meticulously designed isometric panorama of Istanbul is a debut NFT project of artist Tarık Tolunay. With a great attention to details and in a playful manner he creates colourful homages to the beautiful cross point of two continents. He interprets the historical and cultural richness of Istanbul and transfers it to the visual world. The asymmetrical structure of the city turns into extremely complex and entertaining compositions.
The idea of the artists is to show the connection between a stable classical image in art and instant modern variability. It is she who is difficult to perceive by the viewer. She, most often, attracts with her duality, which the very union of two contemporary artists possesses.
Galina Shevchenko is an artist from Finland. For a long time, she worked in the classical style of painting. Her delicate watercolours, full of romantic mystery, promise both tranquillity and adventure: “The sun has not yet risen above the haze of clouds, and the mountains in the distance seem blurred in the predawn haze. The yachts are preparing to leave the bay for the open sea, but so far everything is motionless and breathes peace and quiet.” And now Galina herself embarked on the study of new facets of contemporary art.
Daria Khasaia lives and works in Istanbul. She chose the fragility of human emotions as the main direction of creativity: shame, anger, and pain along with unconditional love, tenderness and acceptance. She expresses her vision of the complex human nature with the help of collage, photo and video art, which can be accompanied by a live musical performance.
The creative union of such dissimilar artists was born in 2019 when they both received the Peggy prize. This union can be called a harmonious symbiosis of opposites, which breathed life into the "Connections" project. Connections between mature and young, unshakable and changeable, past and yet to come. As well as the connections between people, nations, and countries, which the girls demonstrate by personal example.
The artists presented five works in mixed media, where they combined classical and modern techniques. The message of most of the works is clear on an intuitive level. This is due to the desire of girls to make the contact of viewers with art more accessible.
The world is rushing at a crazy pace, changes sweep everything around, giving birth to new and new trends, names, and meanings ... It is impossible to remain a retrograde, nervously sitting on a stool of the past. And at the same time, it is so important to have unshakable foundations and roots that will help you not get lost in the whirlwind of a crazy future. Where is this edge? Transition? Merging two elements?
Each of the artists answers this question in her own way, but such dissimilar voices of the girls surprisingly merge into unison.
Galina brings out the haze of a blurred watercolour of hazy shades, deftly writing out the smallest details. Unites Daria's collages into a surreal world full of myths and deities, as if in an unusual dream. Unites the works of the artist’s mood, wary and curious in relation to the subtle moment of transition.
Most of the works have an unusual structure - this is an attempt to come up with the very future art that the project is looking for. Artists simply allowed themselves to be in a creative search, without depriving themselves of inner freedom. After all, the theme of the connection between the past and the future, life and death is presented to each of us in different ways.
Murat Saygıner is a self-taught digital artist who works as a motion designer, filmmaker, photographer and composer presents his new NFT series “Refractions” as an ongoing collection of 4K / 60FPS seamless loops.
Morphing Dreamscapes from a Cosmic Exhibition.
About artist
Born in Prague in 1989, Murat Saygıner got involved with photography and digital art in 2007 and won numerous international awards. As early as 2008, his works were selected for "IPA Best of Show" exhibition in New York and in 2010, he was awarded Emerging Talent of the Year in "The Photography Gala Awards".
He has written, directed and produced several animated short films since 2013 which were screened in over 200 film festivals including Academy Award Qualifying Festivals such as "Animest" and "AIFVF". Six of his films were Staff Picked on Vimeo. In 2019, he assembled ten of his short films under the title of "The Flying Fish" which drew various reviews by acclaimed film critics and received the Vitriol Award as the Best Experimental Film in The First Hermetic International Film Festival in Venice.
Voxel artist (3D pixel) Mari Mad Maraca shares her magic worlds available for collecting as Prints or Digital Tokens
Refik Anadol is a media artist and director born in Istanbul, Turkey and currently based in Los Angeles, California. He is working in the fields of site-specific public art with parametric data sculpture approach and live audio/visual performance with immersive installation approach, particularly his works explore the space among digital and physical entities by creating a hybrid relationship between architecture and media arts with machine intelligence.
“Artificial Landscapes” is his latest AI Data Sculpture series that his studio have generated for Samsung‘s next-gen MicroLED technology. It consists of 3 unique chapters, each offering a window to how visual memories of nature can be simulated through ML algorithms and by using data as pigment.
Turkish artist Ceren Bulbun uses the traditional art of collage in a very innovative way: where she mixes natural phenomenon with human anatomy and body details.
Finding connections between nature and human body: a violet eyelid remembering a purple galaxy, the veins in our eyes that resemble a red striated marble or tangled fingers blended with wave power.
It may well be that humanity has never witnessed and starred in such rapid transformation, development and progress in all its history. The struggle against nature has evolved into a fight against oneself and with each other. The questions, the inquiries and the issues have transformed.
Now we talk about totally different things. Not just only about technology, industry 4.0, artificial intelligence, new professions or new planets... But about our extinguishing free will. And in fact, about whether we even ever had free will. About reality and new realities. In the end, everything is data. And it is possible to calculate the process of smart data.
Pluriverse is a story that observes innovations throughout the history of humans. The character of the story delivers this process in a cause and effect situation. And eventually, questions reality as a non-human entity.
Pluriverse
Completed in 28 days, Pluriverse was displayed during the opening of Technology Summit and
the 6 minute story was told using real time motion capture technology.
503sqm indoor LED Screen
20 Outout Data-on Watch-out Media Server System
Direction, Animation, Design: BİŞEYLER New Media Works
Directors: B. Ece Okuyucu, Gökhan Okuyucu
Creative Director: Tiber Ergür
Project Director: Alican Yılmaz
Digital art of Aykut Aydogdu has been on our radars since last year. But little did we mentioned his obsession with Space or Planets that he puts eventually in every fifth of his works. Planets of Love that what we call the small selection of his works below
"Turkish art director and visual artist Hüseyin Şahin has an uncanny eye for combining disparate photographs into cohesive scenes, where technology, nature, and humankind collide. Sahin works with a variety of digital photographs which he then edits into collages that he shares on Instagram and Behance"
Turkish artist Mahyar Kalantari creates awesome digital collages and artworks that can be seen on Behance following his progress on a timeline of a few last years
"Some weeks ago, we saw Nike release a number of local-market spots for women, in what we suspected was a push to convey a larger, global message..
Just in time for International Women’s Day, Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam—which created them—had the Russia, Middle East and Turkey ads subtitled in English. The agency also revealed they are indeed part of bigger campaign, with the tagline, “Believe in More.
They also coincide with news that Nike is launching a Pro Hijab line for veiled Muslim women, which goes on sale in spring 2018.”
Istanbul artist Aykut Aydoğdu (previously) shares new set of striking illustrations
Instabul-based photographer and digital artis Şakir Yıldırım creates mind-bending photo-manipulated projects for no reason but art. We personally love his latest glitchy works from "Crawler Series" posted below
"In this brief video, artist Garip Ay creates an interpretation of Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ painting using a paper marbling technique—or more specifically the Turkish method called ebru. Marbling involves the careful process of floating colors on the surface of water or a slightly more viscous solution called size, before transferring the design or pattern to a special sheet of paper in a dramatic flourish." via Colossal
Our friend Louise Mertens set and art direction for Orta Anadolu Autumn-Winter 2017/2018 collection
Creative + Art Direction: Louise Mertens
Video + Montage: Vlad Solovov - SOLOVOV.be
Video Assistant: Thomas Vercauteren
Styling: Layna Isle Vancauteren
Make-Up & Hair: Laura Noben
Models: Angela (Future Faces Models) - Alexandru (Flag Models)
