Fries Vansevenant

October 26, 2026 by Arseny Vesnin in 2026, Belgium, Illustration, Graphic Design, Portfolios

Fries Vansevenant builds portraits like puzzles, locking geometric shapes into a fixed portrait frame until a character emerges.

The Ghent-based digital collage artist works in a contemporary Cubist idiom, constructing iconic faces from flat planes and angular fragments. Each composition begins as a problem to solve — how to suggest a profile, a gaze, a recognisable silhouette using only geometric abstraction. The constraint of the fixed ratio becomes the engine of the work, forcing economy and precision.

The method crystallised with a portrait of The Joker, made after watching The Dark Knight for the thirty-fifth time. That piece became the foundation — flat 2D perspective, profile portraiture, and bold shape-building locked into place.

“Through my work, I don’t take you back to the past; instead, I show how it still walks alongside us.”

From that single experiment, a visual language emerged: pop culture figures rebuilt as graphic puzzles, nostalgia rendered in clean geometry.

@fries_vansevenant

Homage ISSEY MIYAKE 1992 Olympics Uniform

October 18, 2026 by Arseny Vesnin in 2026, Lithuania, Motioncollector, France

Studio Anatolik has resurrected a piece of Olympic design history—the Lithuanian national team uniform Issey Miyake originally created for the 1992 Barcelona Games.

The original commission came at a charged moment: Lithuania had just regained independence, and Miyake's designs were captured in promotional imagery shot by Irving Penn. An image of the uniform sat in Anatolik's reference archive for years before the studio began reconstructing it in 2018, revisiting the project through its own visual language.

What started as interest in an archival fashion object became a reflection on connection — a Japanese designer, a newly independent Baltic state, Games hosted in Spain — between countries, generations and creative disciplines.

Anatolik Belikov Studio is a Paris-based creative studio and CGI production house led by artist and director Anatolii Belikov. The studio creates distinctive imagery and films for luxury and premium brands, bringing a personal artistic perspective to each project.

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Pokras Lampas - Kazan Rooftop Calligraphy

October 15, 2026 by Arseny Vesnin in Lettering, Russia, Street Art

Long time no Pokras. It’s been a while since our last encounter, and I am glad to cover his new giant piece again.

Pokras Lampas writes cities into existence — this time, in two languages at once.

The calligraphy artist has spent years scaling up letterforms to architectural proportions, but the rooftop of Barkli DAN Residence demanded something more than spectacle. Here, Russian and Tatar interweave across 177 square metres — three concepts, six words, two languages — each stroke a negotiation between heritage and horizon.

Three months of preparation, 14 days of painting. A 15-metre circle of contemporary Cyrillic calligraphy, read best from above — a message written for the sky, or perhaps for the city looking back at itself.

Artist: Pokras Lampas

Location: Kazan, Tatarstan

Project: Barkli DAN Residence rooftop mural

The ARTphabet by CESS

October 13, 2026 by Arseny Vesnin in 2026, Advertising, Agencies, Graphic Design, Spain, Typography

César Cid turns the alphabet into a gallery of borrowed worlds.

The Madrid-based 3D artist, working as CESS Studio, has built The Artphabet, a complete set of 26 letters, each a digital sculpture channelling the visual universe of a different celebrated artist. Mondrian's rigid geometry, Dalí's melting surrealism, Basquiat's raw urgency, and Kusama's infinite dots.

D DAMIEN HIRST.png

G GAUDÍ.jpg

N POLLOCK.jpg

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What makes the project sing is Cid's refusal to simply texture a letter with someone else's style. Each character becomes a genuine object — form, colour, and material all transformed to inhabit that artist's world completely. The letter is merely the armature; the sculpture is the homage.

Z MUNCH.jpg

T TAKASHI MURAKAMI.jpg

U MATISEE.jpg

V VANGOGH.jpg

F FRIDA.jpg

Q BASQUIAT.jpg

y yayoi kusama.jpg

W WESSELMANN.jpg

Dina Goldstein: Mistresspieces

October 31, 2025 by Arseny Vesnin in 2025, Portfolios, Photography, Canada

Canadian photographer Dina Goldstein, known for her cult series Fallen Princesses, returns with MISTRESSPIECES — a sharp, cinematic dive into art history’s most iconic women.

In ten large-scale photographs, Goldstein pulls figures from the canon — the Madonnas, the muses, the myths — and drops them into today’s world of climate anxiety, AI mimicry, and quiet displacement. Each tableau feels like a scene from a darkly funny film that never existed: part Renaissance, part reality TV, entirely unsettling.

Goldstein has always used satire as a mirror, and here she turns it toward the history of the gaze itself. For centuries, male artists idealized the female form — Botticelli’s softness, Titian’s glow, Ingres’s precision — shaping beauty through desire. MISTRESSPIECES flips that script. These women are no longer passive subjects; they occupy the frame with full agency, confronting both the painter and the viewer.

What emerges is not just a retelling of art history, but a reclamation — a gallery of heroines reborn in a world they never asked to inherit.

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Dark Tales group show at Folkestone

October 22, 2025 by Arseny Vesnin in 2025, Art, Events, United Kingdom

Dark Tales

17-21 October, 2025

In the heart of the Creative Quarter in Folkestone, at Eight Squared Gallery, there was Dark Tales, a contemporary art exhibition. Curator Irina Naumova invited six women artists to reflect on tales that continue to be told in modern society. The curator's idea was to reimagine the fairy tale as a personal mythology through different media. Featured photographs, paintings and objects represented beauty, nostalgia and self-expression.

In every darkness, there’s a light when the artist speaks. By reinterpreting the idea of the fairy tale as a timeless landscape of the mind, this exhibition aimed to showcase the bright voices of contemporary art that diminish the distinction between dream and myth, memory and imagination.

Natalia Alekna creates multifaceted collages with self-assertive women at the centre of the composition

Varvara Burtseva’s collage shows whimsical creatures that came from medieval times and were carefully brought into the contemporary context.

Natasha Antipova-Kaploukhaya shows her work with a man in a bright costume as if he came directly from a movie or a tale.

Daria Atamanovskaya proclaims a multi-layered statement about youth, femininity and post-Soviet melancholy. A bold play with the past, gender stereotypes and fashionable images in the featured photograph.

Gwen Grynfeld’s art practice runs through physical theatre, puppetry and painting. This show displays work on canvas about the resurrection of women's power.

Iryna Yauseyenka’s goats are fairy-tale creatures with detailed costumes and accessories.

Dark Tales at Eight Squared Gallery

Daryn Arystanbekov for UNICEF Kazakhstan

October 20, 2025 by Arseny Vesnin in 2025, Advertising, Motioncollector

Graphic and motion designer Daryn Arystanbekov made a new motion design for UNICEF Kazakhstan, where the dreams of Kazakh teenagers are drawn by hand.

The animation was created for “Dreams Without Borders”, this year's UNICEF Gala Dinner, dedicated to adolescent mental health and held in connection with World Mental Health Day. The message is difficult. Teenage suicide remains one of the main causes of death among teenagers in Kazakhstan. Daryn decided to tell the story in the way children would tell it themselves. All the keyframes are drawn in a childlike style and then hand-animated, so the naive lines and small childish mistakes stay visible in every frame.

The film starts by showing the dreams of a teenager who wants to become an artist, a musician, a doctor or an astronaut. Then it shows how hard it is to reach those dreams when there’s no one there to support them. It ends with a simple message: let’s save their future together. The money collected during the evening goes to UNICEF’s programme, which reaches 140,000 children aged 10 to 17, and 50,500 specialists have been trained to spot the warning signs.

To be honest, the film’s strongest move is its visual shift. The sequence of colour, absence, and unfinished drawing communicates the story without any dialogue. The hand-drawn look is charming, though the crayon textures and the rocket’s wobbly outline feel more polished than “naive” suggests, and the cartoon children in the opening are quite refined. Maybe adding some collages or torn paper techinique will make it look more trustful and heartfelt next time.

Daryn Arystanbekov lives in London and has an MA in Graphic Design from Middlesex University. He and his studio have worked on graphics, 2D and 3D animation, illustration, branding, sound design and 3D mapping for clients in Kazakhstan, Turkey, Canada, Mexico, Australia and France.

@unicefkazakhstan

Post-WiFi Art by Mika 100o111

October 20, 2024 by Arseny Vesnin in 2024, Art, Germany, NFT Art, Portfolios

The works we have shared by the artist Mika fall into a category that we could describe as post-crypto and post-Wi-Fi art. She blends elements of digital culture, technology, and modern life into physical or conceptual pieces that question the relationships between technology, symbolism, and daily objects.

Post-crypto art is generally developed after or in response to the rise of blockchain technology and the NFT market. Most works reflect the hangover or disillusionment from the previous promises of decentralisation, democratisation of wealth, or even "crypto utopia" we all had in 2021.
Mika's works seem to record an irony or judgment toward this ultra-modern, technology-marinated world, in which crypto art was promising to change but then primarily problematic.

Therefore, these objects in the images have an implicit dialogue with the viewer, an invitation to consider some thought about tradition—for instance, swords, tea bags, crosses—and modernity; what better examples than laptops, Bluetooth, or iPhone chargers?

Mika works are reflections upon the omni-presence of internet connectivity and how it is affecting the physical world. In post-WiFi art, a common theme is a disconnect between virtual and real-world interactions, critiquing the reliance on constant online presence.

Mika invites deep reflection on the state of modernity through her work, critiquing or accepting the role technology plays in redefining our relationship to power, comfort, connectivity, and even spirituality. In the post-crypto, post-WiFi era, as we call it, these works toy with the absurdities of modern life and digital reliance, pushing back against the elevation of mundane or obsolete symbols to objects of reflection.

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Tree of Knowledge by Beeple x Avant Arte

October 03, 2024 by Arseny Vesnin in 2024, Digital Art, USA

Avant Arte’s collaboration with the trailblazing digital artist Beeple is thoughtfully based on the three distinct states of his first generative artwork: SIGNAL, NOISE, and VIOLENCE.

Tree of Knowledge. Building from the kinetic sculpture series introduced with HUMAN ONE, the work has now added an interactive element — a means for viewers to explore a more nuanced relationship between technology and nature. As viewers turn the dial between signal and noise, the serene future of technology and the coexistence of nature noisily crash into the chaotic present filled with real-time data, media, and information overload. Beeple is looking to create an experience where viewers cannot be told what to think but can decide how much information they let in.

“We all get to choose our own reality.”

— Beeple

Limited edition prints with Avant Arte

In collaboration with ultimate art platform Avant Arte, Beeple releasing a trio of limited edition prints: Signal, Noise and Choose Violence available for 48h starting October 9.

Pon Arsher

October 02, 2023 by Arseny Vesnin in 2023, Art, Portfolios, Moldova, USA

Pon Arsher, a self-taught artist, hails from Chisinau, the capital of Moldova. Since her early years, she found solace and a profound connection to her inner self through drawing, often opting for solitude over socializing with friends.

Her artistic focus has consistently revolved around humanity and the world of sensations. Her creations aim to acknowledge the trials of life, employing a harmonious blend of colour, texture, and motion to craft a captivating interpretation of these challenges. In essence, her showcased works mirror the universal concerns, inner struggles, and restrained emotions that touch us all.

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DRIFT's aerial sculptures and architecture

October 29, 2022 by Arseny Vesnin in 2022, Art, Digital Art, Design, Netherlands

@studio.drift

What would the Sagrada Familia look like if it was finished? Imagine a full circle Colosseum... Dutch artist duo DRIFT has been working to improve their drone software to create real-life, life-size renders to visualise the improbable.

DRIFT works together with a multi-disciplinary team of 64 on aerial sculptures, installations and performances. All individual artworks have the ability to transform spaces. The confined parameters of a museum or a gallery does not always do justice to a body of work, rather it often comes to its potential in the public sphere or through architecture.

In 2017 DRIFT made their first performative art installation named Franchise Freedom. This drone show premiered at Art Basel Miami 2017, followed by performances all over the world. Besides this performative art installation DRIFT produced many more, with which the world is well known.

In collaboration with the company Drone Stories and Nova Skystories, DRIFT has used their drone technology since 2020 to reimagine the future of architecture. It is the aim to assist architects to bring their future projects to reality in a mesmerising yet sustainable way, visualising what this life size would look like.

NOMAD by SENI x ARTISANT

October 22, 2022 by Arseny Vesnin in 2022, NFT Art

Unexpected combination of ethnicity and futurism is the key to balance past and future and be a true life surfer. This look is for brave adventurer who is hungry for new experience and preserves memories in the galaxy backpack.

Utility: ARTISANT will airdrop The Sandbox NFT fashion wearable to all holders. You will be able to use your fashion garment in The Sandbox Metaverse by connecting your wallet.

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Ada Crow Photography

October 29, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, NFT Art, Photography, Portfolios

@ada_crow

Welcome to the other side of the mirror - the world of Ada’s Crow mastermind. We are pretty sure you will be amazed by the conceptual photography she creates on the daily basis leaving no doubts she is next NFT OG star

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LucyLucy

October 28, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Australia, Portfolios, Street Art, Illustration

French Parisian born artist Lucy Lucy has immigrated to Australia in 2006. Currently residing in Melbourne, she has graciously carved her niche in the Australian urban art community. She has been painting murals and exhibiting in France, Australia, Canada, Thailand, UK and the US.

Lucy’s paintings capture the evolving folklore of the feminine, exploring the energy through archetypal portraits of muses, mothers and goddesses. Her symbolic imagery is an invitation to navigate the inner landscapes of the women psyche.

An important part of her creative career has focused on multiple collaborations, starting with the collective Awol crew as early as 2006. Along the years, this path has immersed Lucy’s practice in performance art, photography and fashion design anchoring her work in multiculturalism. Lucy’s public murals also often explore themes like social equality and Nature symbiosis.

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Private Party in Metaverse by Alexey Kondakov

October 21, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, NFT Art, Art, Portfolios, Ukraine

@alksko

We are happy to announce absolute talent Alexey Kondakov is joining NFT Art Scene on @Superrare.co. You may know Alex for his meticulously created collages featuring the clash of reality and a moment of art history. Every work is painstakingly created by artist by selecting scene from real life, adapting the lights and selecting a perfect situation from the history of arts

Video artwork will be available as NFT this Friday at 17.00 EEST / 10 EDT

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Art of Tiffany Cole

October 20, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, NFT Art, Portfolios

@tiffanycole

Tiffany Cole was born and raised in San Francisco California and is now based in London England. She is a self-taught artist and a muse to some of the world's leading artists. While her work revolves around the human form Tiffany also adds raw, colourful abstraction to her figure work. After the careful and technical creation of the figure she dives into pure emotion with instinctual, bold mark making.

“I am deeply interested and consumed with the beauty and sensuality of the figure. I feel like I get to tell stories with my hands and create the worlds that I felt I had to keep trapped in my mind for so many years. Through my art I am free to express my sensuality, and I’m finding with my work I’m able to give a voice to the inner thoughts of many women I’ve come to meet, who have become muses to me. My work represents the two dominant and sometimes harmful sides of my personality, obsession with perfection with bouts of exuberant spontaneity”

— Tiffany Cole

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MacBook Pro 2021 film dir. by Grif

October 19, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, Advertising, Motioncollector

Shane Griffin better know as Grif has been commissioned by Apple to create a significant part of their latest October presentation. Shane was busy last month to deliver a blockbuster visual for Macbook 16” return. This was produced by the amazing @psyop, and shot by Dariusz Wolski.

A New Nature by Mark Dorf

October 18, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, Germany, NFT Art, Portfolios, Switzerland

@mrkdrf

Generative artist Mark Dorf shares NFT excerpts from an upcoming video installation titled A New Nature at the Museum für Gestaltung that will run as a part of Digital Arts Zurich later this month

"A New Nature" contemplates the future of what is commonly referred to in Western culture as Nature through scenes that are both cautionary and celebratory. The works in A New Nature do not depict a future that is a return to the pastoral and bucolic landscape, but neither is it a future of doom and gloom. Instead, these works reveal environments that are augmented with technology, for better or worse, and that are full of mystery suggesting and normalizing images of a strange hybrid, and at times abject, planetary system of technology-organisms.

These new works are derived from a longer form video installation A New Nature are debuting at the end of the month at @museumgestaltung with @daz_digitalartzurich

01 A New Nature

⚭ Nature is just a word that is assigned to a place over there. Theres nothing over there that is not over here

02 Layer Two

✧ Tell me what you see. It slips just out of reach with the very act of grasping it.

03 Assemblage

☉ Breathe life into this world. There is nothing new here, we have all been here forever.

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Digital Art from Jana Stýblová

October 13, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, Glitch, Czechia, Portfolios, NFT Art, USA

Analogue, abstract and grotesque artist Jana Stýblová shares her vision

“Each piece I create embodies the goal of merging the analogue/physical and digital. I begin a new piece by first making a painting on canvas with acrylic paint, spray paint and occasionally other chemicals. While the paint is still wet and malleable, I photograph the canvas both regularly and at a macro scale, revealing some of the more alien details the paint may create by interacting with itself. Once I have a set of sometimes hundreds of photos, I select the ones that strike me as most otherworldly or ones that would work well as a landscape foundation.”

”I bring these photographs into Photoshop and begin building, layering, cutting and seaming—slowly playing with density to reveal something that doesn't look paint-like at all. Often I will add gradients at this stage before running this preliminary collage through a pixel sorting bit of code in Processing. Pixel sorting is a technique invented by Kim Asendorf in 2010—I like to work with analogue methods, but have a deep respect and awe of code, combining the two in the NFT / Digital Art space is what, to me, solidifies the art as a digital work, rather than physical. “

”This process repeats and can go on for many hours until I feel a sense of completion, or indeed, perhaps a bit of transportation. You can read a bit more here: https://janastyblova.com/a-nebula “

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Monumentalis by Paul Green

October 12, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, NFT Art, Portfolios, Russia

@true_paulgreen

Paul Green, a digital artist based in Moscow, creates the "Monumentalis" collection - an NFT project with a unique playable model for collecting strange figurines. As he explains, each "Monumentalis" is a reflection of our everyday life in emotional or physical embodiment. Each piece in this collection is hand-crafted one by one and offered as a one-of-a-kind piece.

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