A new reality: Maxim Zhestkov for BMW

July 15, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Advertising, Cars, Digital Art, Motioncollector, Russia

To celebrate the reveal of the new all-electric BMW i4, BMW invited Russian media artist Maxim Zhestkov to freely interpret the new vehicle, and create a series of digital artworks using the BMW i4 design and technology as his inspiration. The result is a series that is as mesmerising as it is unique.

“I started out studying traditional architecture, but somewhere down the road I came to realise that the 3D software we used for mapping and modelling had so much more potential. It felt like it was being used to create the final product or output, and then… the process was seen as over. It was very finite, and it just didn’t sit right with me. But then I saw that, in fact, the software, if I found a way to use it right, could become much more. It could be used to discover and experiment in ways that didn’t have a goal in itself. It could be the way itself; the means to explore .something new and unexpected.”

— Maxim Zhestkov

Zhestkov describes this realisation as a process of “personal and creative liberation.” By plugging into the ever-evolving and ever more advanced visualisation and rendering software he had available, he was able to explore spatiality, physics, visuals and mathematics in a way he hadn’t thought possible. He quickly became hooked.

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Sea Plants by Mariko Kusumoto

July 12, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Japan, Portfolios, Sculpture

@marikokusumoto

“From polyester, nylon, and cotton, Japanese artist and designer Mariko Kusumoto fabricates sculptural forms that resemble the creatures and everyday objects she finds most fascinating. She uses a proprietary heat-setting technique to mold the ubiquitous materials into undulating ripples, honeycomb poufs, and even tiny schools of fish that are presented in elegant and fanciful contexts. Whether a pastel coral reef or a fantastical bracelet filled with mushrooms, rosettes, and minuscule bicycles, Kusumoto’s body of work, which includes standalone objects and wearables, uses the ethereal qualities of the translucent fibers to make even the banalest forms appear like they’re part of a dream.” - via @Colossal

Nathaniel Rackowe

July 09, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Portfolios, Sculpture, United Kingdom

@rackowe

@mtartagency

MTArt Agency is extremely proud to announce that British visual artist Nathaniel Rackowe, world-renowned by his large-scale urban referenced structures and light sculptures, is now an MTArt Agency signed artist.

Rackowe’s work is designed to recreate the experience of navigating the city around us. His works are abstracted impressions of today's metropolitan experience evoked through the vicissitudes of light as it fluctuates throughout the city. Influenced by Modernism, film and video games, Rackowe uses the mass-manufactured derivative products of the modernist era - glass, corrugated plastics, concrete, scaffolding, breeze blocks and strip lights - to recreate the collective experience and visual sensations of urban contemporary life, while incorporating a deeply personal emotional response to flowing through built space.

The second semester of 2021 is lined up with exciting projects for Rackowe: used to working in the public sphere, the artist has a new commission for the Canary Wharf outdoor sculpture exhibition with Brooke Bennington, “On the Other Hand”, from the 26th of August to the 12th of November 2021. The show will explore notions of revival and value, bringing together a group of contemporary sculptors who incorporate - or use as their starting point - found and human-made objects.

Later in the year, Nathaniel will exhibit new works with FOLD Gallery, the London-based gallery bringing UK based and international artists together. Also this year, the Art Design Lebanon will include one of Rackowe’s works for a group show in Beirut. And in November from the 10th to the 14th, the Lichtfestival Gent will include an outdoor light installation from the new MTArt Agency artist.

“It’s really exciting to be joining the MTArt Agency roster of artists. Marine and her team have a unique approach to supporting and growing the artist, while finding wide ranging ways to bring their work to the public eye. The breath of their engagement perfectly meshes with my diverse art practice, with so many fascinating ideas for where this new collaboration may lead.”

— Nathaniel Rackowe

Rackowe’s public art projects are completely aligned with MTArt Agency’s vision for the public sphere which is working towards providing everyone with access to art whilst investing in local communities and allowing artists to broadcast their artistic stories to inspire as many people as possible. Nathaniel Rackowe is part of a new breed of established artists (like Robert Montgomery, Walter and Zoniel, among others) who believe in the agency’s values and efforts to change the industry, and were attracted by our recent growth - as highlighted in this article on The Art Newspaper.

“What a dream to bring Nathaniel Rackowe on board, for the past twenty years he has proven that conceptual art could be integrated into the public realm. Bringing artists with this level of credibility is a dream come true for me as a founder”

— Marine Tanguy, MTArt Agency

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Briscoe Park photography

July 08, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Portfolios, Photography, USA

@briscoepark

American fine art photographer that enjoys Sci-fi like settings. Briscoe Park lives and travels in his van shooting strange concepts.

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Olivier Caron

July 07, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, France, NFT Art, Portfolios

@geometry_in_motion

Olivier Caron is a freelance director and motion designer who is based in Paris, busy creating outstanding characters filling the digital void of screen nature

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Texture Heaven by Carla Batley

July 06, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, NFT Art, Portfolios, United Kingdom

@carla.batley

3D designer based in the UK, Carla Batley, specialising in creating pieces of work that immerse the viewer in exciting and imaginary worlds. Carla particularly loves to create environments that have an abstract twist.

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Opening The Future by Joanna Grochowska

July 05, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Poland, Portfolios

@facelesshumanforms

DEAD ARE ALL GODS: NOW WE DESIRE THE POST-HUMAN TO LIVE

Joanna Grochowska is a contemporary artist exploring trans-humanism and human enhancement technologies.
Her work contributes to the dialogue about morphological freedom and the future.
The conceptual basis of her art are the notions of Transgression and Singularity.
An artist defines herself as a Project.

Opening the Future constitutes an immensely powerful and sophisticated body of work, which pursues the aim of exploring new post-human figurativeness. The dominant theme addresses the subject of transgressive corporality and encompasses the contexts of future, morphological freedom and human enhancement technologies.

The logical and inevitable progress of technology evolution implies the emergence of new paradigms of gender, body and identity. The body becomes a symptom of the unnatural, edited and superior life form, posing a question of the possible shift of ethical lines and a change in definition of what is human.

Opening the Future extends the discourse of the Post Human, a visionary series of exhibitions curated by Jeffrey Deitch in 1992, which manifested the embrace of artificiality and projected the role of artists beyond redefining art; towards redefining life. The work of Joanna Grochowska integrates with the concepts of human enhancement technologies, the ideas of Elon Musk, Raymond Kurzweil and Jennifer Doudna, awarded the Nobel Prize for the development of a revolutionary genome editing method; seeking the new aesthetics of the future.

The exhibition Opening the Future is presented at the Størpunkt Gallery Munich; on view until August 7, 2021 every Thursday to Saturday from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. The general corona rules apply.

Størpunkt Gallery
Tengstraße 32a, 80796 Munich

Roman Casus

July 01, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, NFT Art, Portfolios, Russia

@romacasus

Russian artist Roman Casus explores conflicts, politics, nudity and anonymity. Painting allows him to impart these digital phantoms with a substance.

“I observer the digital stream. The modern content delivery methods such as instant posting and live broadcasts, allow viewer to be in the epicenter of events without physical participation. I construct my own stories based on these impressions. Painting allows me to impart these digital phantoms with a substance.

Sketches for my works are assembled from digital artifacts. I produce digital manipulations with fragments of news, videos, and live broadcasts. I combine contradictory elements to deconstruct the original narrative.

While creating painting I combine figurative and abstract painting. Elements of realism make works plausible. But random deformations, cropping of forms, breaking of space, and color distortions make the interpretation almost impossible. Each fragment dissolves its meaning within the frame. Blurring one image into another, one narrative into another, one way of seeing into another. Stories behind these forms capture the unpredictability and redundancy of reality.”

— Roman Casus

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CG Surrealism by Nakdtoys

June 30, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, India, Portfolios, NFT Art

@nakdtoys

Nakdtoys is Faheem, a 3D digital artist based in India who likes to create twisted and surreal scenarios with human forms and strange objects

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Robotica by Giuseppe Lo Schiavo

June 29, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, Motioncollector, NFT Art

@giuseppeloschiavo

The CG video ROBOTICA by Giuseppe Lo Schiavo is a 58 seconds animation inspired by contemporary theatre, combining elements from ancient greek culture, robotics, and digital art with a photorealistic visual aesthetic. Lo Schiavo is fascinated by some of the greatest masters of contemporary theatre and dance of the late twentieth century as well as by Bill Viola’s video art and Crypto Punks.

Despite robotic figures, the video is all about projecting humanity through technology and is inspired by artists such as Dimitris Papaioannou, Pina Bausch, and Bill Viola.

The performance is divided into three main scenes. They all manifest a particular feature of human socialisation.

The first dancing act is inspired by the idea of humans as a unique collective organism, a group of synergistically interacting organisms of the same species all working for the collective benefit. This view attains liberation from self and individualism.

ROBOTICA official release 30th June on @SuperRare x @AsteCambi
#nftdrop #cryptoart #crypto #digitalart #glos #superrare #CryptoNews pic.twitter.com/PUwfEPmXNQ
— Giuseppe Lo Schiavo (@GlosArtist) June 28, 2021

Opening today the exhibition Dystopian Visions at @AsteCambi curated by @SerenaTabacchi @bruno_pitzalis
Happy to be part of this incredible project! #nft #NFTartwork #robotica #NFTs #nftart #nftartist pic.twitter.com/265Yu8hUw2
— Giuseppe Lo Schiavo (@GlosArtist) June 24, 2021

The second act is about domestication and the epigenetic principle that the environment also shapes part of our DNA. I like to believe that our personal choices and the information we absorb are stored in our epigenome and passed into future generations. So each choice has an impact on our society.

For the final act, the artist staged a procession, a celebration to express belongingness and community inspired by the ancient greek ceremonial Panathenaic festival rituals where people were marching on the streets of the ancient cities with their offerings. In this scene, the robots carry an original Cryptopunk sculpture created by the artist and made of 576-pixel boxes.

The NFT is a part of special project organised by MOCDA within 20 artists selected for a week-long auction at CAMBI Casa d'Aste minted on Superrare

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About the artist

Born in Italy, Lo Schiavo currently lives and works between London and Milan.
He studied architecture at La Sapienza University in Rome with a specialization in visual design.

Giuseppe Lo Schiavo is an award-winning visual artist based between London and Milan. His research is aiming to create a bridge between art and science. Using AI and machine learning, virtual reality, infrared systems, or microorganisms in the lab, the artist’s research often focuses on opposing elements: creation-destruction, past-future, analog-digital, real-virtual

Valorant Anthem by HVY MNTHL

June 28, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Advertising, Agencies, Motioncollector, United Kingdom

@ulcerboy

Valorant Anthem directed by Carl Eddy at HVY MNTHL

Exhibition World Cities by Andrey Denisyuk

June 26, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Lifestyle, Photography, Portfolios, Russia

Modern video art is a video that is based on the latest technology. With 8K Super UHD resolution, the video art has huge image detailization. Dynamic range allows you to see details even in the night scene, while not losing the details of bright neon lights. The Rec.2100 color space provides the video artist with colours previously unavailable in other visual arts.

Finding artistic beauty in an urbanized landscape is what inspires Andrey Denisyuk to create his video art of the City of the World. To create this video art, Andrey traveled across three continents and continues to create cycles of these videos. Previously, Andrey's works were shown at the IFA exhibition in Germany and CES in Berlin. The color solution, bright colours, choice of shooting location, construction of the composition, experience, personal view, and creative view of the architecture of cities turn this video into a work of modern art. Being one of the first to create video art in a new resolution, Andrey is the founder of a new movement at the intersection of video art and high technology.

About artist

Andrey Denisyuk, famous photographer and videographer. As a travel artist, he has filmed in many countries around the world, such as Thailand, China, Singapore, France, Great Britain, United States, Mexico. His photos and videos are used by the world's leading media. Andrey's video arts are used by electronics manufacturers to present new TVs.

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Iceland by Tom Kondrat

June 24, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Portfolios, Photography, United Kingdom

“For me, taking photographs is like meditation”

— Tom Kondrat

@tomkondrat

“This is Paper” did a great coverage of Tom Kondrat’s photography made in Iceland

Eugene Korolev

June 22, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Digital Art, Illustration, Portfolios

@eugenekorolevart

Moscow-based digital artist Eugene Korolev stretches his imagination and our perception in all possible directions

Roos van der Vliet

June 21, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Netherlands, Portfolios

@roosvandervliet

Roos Van Der Vliet is an artist born and raised in The Netherlands. In her eerie series Storytellers, Roos depicts her subjects with their faces bound with hair

Boris Pelcer

June 18, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Illustration, Portfolios, USA

@borispelcerart

Sarajevo-born Portland-based artist Boris Pelcer creates his work as a way to explore the intangible complexities of human emotions, thoughts, ideas and behaviours. Deep down, it is all an effort to better understand his human experience.

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Seerlight illustrations

June 17, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, Illustration, Portfolios, NFT Art, USA

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Ronald Kuang working under Seerlight moniker uses serenity twilight palette to create his magic anime-like dystopian worlds and visual stories

'Bathhouse' ✨🌊
Sorry for the terrible quality. I had to compress it so much for twitter 🥲
Would you want to be spirited away? 👀 pic.twitter.com/2JH8LA5szW
— SeerLight ✨🌙✨ (@seerlight) April 17, 2021

One of my most well known pieces 'Ramen Village' is now available on foundation with reserve bid at 5 eth. Check link below.
This will be my last nft drop for the foreseeable future. #Cryptoart pic.twitter.com/HG6Via1lvp
— SeerLight ✨🌙✨ (@seerlight) April 22, 2021

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Hannah Thornhill Photography

June 16, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Advertising, Fashion, Lifestyle, Photography, Portfolios

@twothirdshoney

Sharing the work of fashion and lifestyle photographer Hannah Thornhill

Jeffrey Czum

June 15, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Photography, USA, Lifestyle, Portfolios

@jeffreyczum

Discovered on “Accidentally Wes Anderson” (@accidentallywesanderson) Jeffrey Czum photography and photography manipulations stands out either by a colour palette or by a message and its realisation

Henrik Udalen art

June 10, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Norway, Portfolios, United Kingdom

@henrikaau

Henrik Aarrestad Uldalen is a self-taught artist whose creative production revolves around classic figurative painting, presented in a contemporary manner. Henrik explores the dark sides of life, nihilism, existentialism, longing and loneliness, juxtaposed with fragile beauty. Though a figurative painter, his focus has always been the emotional content rather than narratives. The atmospheres in his work is often presented in a dream or limbo-like state, with elements of surrealism. He’s recently went active on NFT Scene with his highly requested artworks available on Hic et Nunc platform