Tattoo and dot painting art by Evan Lorenzen
Denver based artist Evan Lorenzen creates outstanding dot painting miniatures and tattoos
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Pierre Schmidt
German artist Pierre Schmidt, born in 1987 and also known as “drømsjel”, creates mind-bending imagery that combines digital illustration and collage techniques. He takes old-fashioned 20th-century style (sometimes pornographic) photographs and puts his own twist on them by manipulating each photo with his own vision of surrealism. Using photo manipulation, illustration, and collage, Pierre has found the perfect balance within each medium he utilizes, creating a diverse set terrifyingly beautiful pieces of art. His art can be found in Cosmopolitan, Vogue Italia, Hi-Fructose Magazine and Vice.
Gentle Monster: The Circle of Life by AES+F
The Circle of Life
After consistent efforts to perfect eyewear design, GENTLE MONSTER presents the Nano Collection campaign ‘The Circle of Life’. Through a collaboration with visual artist collective AES+F, the art film ‘The Circle of Life’ was created simultaneously as a pursuit of our origins and of our future, where we reach out to fantastical creatures as if for our dreams and where our life has no beginning or end.
GENTLE MONSTER invites you into an imaginarium where surreal creatures and strange structures float in the sky, and where Nano Collection’s bizarre products evoke a rush of emotions.
Alina Grasmann art
Alina Grasmann is a painter based in Munich.
“I am a painter and I mostly work in series and in large scale and oil on canvas. Each series is based on a specific location, that I try to examine more closely in my paintings. I have just finished the work on my last series „Sculpting in Time“, which was on view at Fridman Gallery in NYC until early January. The paintings show rooms of the urban utopia Arcosanti, which was designed by Frank Ilyod Wright student Paolo Soleri in the desert of Arizona. Ideally, my work is shifting somewhere between fact and fiction. The rooms shown in „Sculpting in Time“ become chambers of wonders, in the sense of baroque imaginariums. I try to fill a ruin, so to speak, with life again. But you will never find people in my paintings.”
Jon Ching Art
Jon Ching is a self-trained artist originally from Kaneohe, Hawaii and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Steeped in natural beauty of O’ahu, Hawai’i, his island upbringing instilled in him indigenous lessons of appreciation and respect for nature, forming the foundation of his fascination with the natural and wild world, which deeply influences and drives his current work.
Jon’s devoted art practice and detailed realism is inspired by the interconnectedness of nature. His work is a surreal imagining of what limitless wonders and combinations nature can produce. New creatures and symbioses emerge in his meticulously rendered oil paintings, exemplifying the endless potential of life on Earth through metaphor and allegory.
Jon’s ultimate hope is to inspire love and admiration for the universally unique beauty and intrigue of our planet. He regularly works to bring awareness to endangered species, the current mass extinction crisis and climate change and continues to partner with environmental organizations in fundraising and educational efforts.
Where The War Things Are by Schoony
We are very proud to welcome new and prominent artist Schoony to the NFT scene on Superrare platform.
Schoony’s background is rooted in special effects and prosthetics for the film industry. His career spans over 30 years. Since the age of fifteen he has worked on over a hundred films. His work and reputation for high quality and pioneering techniques has reached far corners of the world thanks to the representation of Maddox Gallery. Schoony uses 3D technologies alongside the more traditional methods in his art pieces. He continually pushes boundaries within this discipline.
Designcollector: What inspired the work in your first NFT drop?
Schoony: For the first drop with SuperRare I thought I would go back to one of my early works. Where The War Things Are is a variation on my Boy Soldier that has been a motif that has stuck with my work over the years and been very symbolic. Where the War Things Are is a throwback to my time spent in Melbourne, Australia where I was working on the film Where the Wild Things Are. I thought I would celebrate my first drop on SuperRare by recreating the piece digitally.
Where The War Things
Read our interview on Superrare Editorial
Manuel Fernandez
Manuel Fernandez is a Spanish artist making internet art projects since 2011. His artistic practice begins at the intersection of art, popular culture and Internet. He explores the impact of technologies on society and their consequences in the way we perceive and experience reality.
Manuel investigates on new processes involved in the creation and production of the art object, in its distribution, presentation and in their consumption in the era of Internet of things.
Lee Madgwick Art
Lee Madgwick’s mysterious and emotive paintings depict scenes of abandonment, seclusion and dereliction. Both his urban and rural pictures portray parts of the modern British landscape that are often overlooked by many (with occasional sprinklings of the surreal). With an undercurrent of mischievous menace throughout, the subject matter is at once thrown into question. Who inhabits these places? What lives do they lead? What is happening or about to happen? “I hope to achieve a sense of drama in my work. Presenting a familiar image yet placing it in an intimate and moody setting. A narrative is very important – but intentionally never fully explained. I like to leave it for the viewer to come up with their own interpretation.”
Lee paints on canvas in oils and acrylics. A play of light is used to generate an abundance of seemingly inexplicable moods to contrast with a brooding sky. Lee has exhibited throughout the UK including London and Edinburgh as well as Dublin, Amsterdam, Rome, Milan, Stockholm, Madrid, Singapore and New York.
Anthony Hurd
Anthropomorphic abstract paintings by Anthony Hurd attract with it’s deep layering of thoughts and senses one can decode based on its own life experience
Alessandro Malossi
Young Italian self-proclaimed artist Alessandro Malossi creates manipulative images that stuck in your brain after you see them. Playing a lot with visual metaphors and meanings Alessandro quickly achieved the fame of Internet artist and provokes viewers by shifting the boundaries every week. We’ll defo see him raising on NFT scene very soon
SKIO
Skio produced his first graffiti in 1993 in the Nice region. Favouring vandal lettering in his early days, then sliding towards a figurative and romantic universe stemming from his pop and television culture, the artist brings his know how towards a singular art that mixes geometric shapes and realistic representations.
Questioning our presence in the urban space, he is particularly inspired by the Bauhaus and artists such as Chirico, Magritte and even Dali. Skio has created his own universe by exploiting his experience and his mastery of techniques, including spray paint, brush and airbrush.
Represented by Galerie Goldshteyn-Saatort @goldshteyn_saatort_gallery
Anastassia Zamaraeva ceramics
Canada-raised Manchester-based artist Anastassia Zamaraeva has been into clay sculpture since her childhood and even changing the profession to architect does not make an effect as she got back to turntable
Street artist JR reveals "The Wound" in Florence
One of the world's most famous contemporary artists JR reveals his new piece of artwork on the façade of the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence. Symbolically entitled "The Wound," it is a reflection on the current and profound difficulties faced by the arts sector in a time of government-mandated restrictions on cultural activities due to Covid-19.
Duality by Ash Keating
Melbourne-based visual artist Ash Keating creates larger-than-life site-specific murals with paint-filled fire extinguishers. He has been painting explosively overseas and across Australia since 2003 - having exhibiting extensively in galleries as well as creating numerous large-scale, site-responsive outdoor projects.
Titled Duality, Keating’s latest works are a series of textural paintings which need to be seen in person to be fully appreciated.
On the view at Linden New Art Gallery with the title show “Duality” through 16 May 2021
Katsuyo Aoki Ceramic Sculpture
Katsuyo Aoki is best known for her ceramic sculptures that apply delicate, swirling forms to dark subject matter. Aoki trained first as a painter before taking up ceramic as her primary medium, though she sometimes creates abstracted images on her ceramic surfaces using glazes in monochromatic palettes.
Aoki is best known for her works in relief or in the round, and an ornate style that draws from a range of decorative styles. Her works often look radically different from varying perspectives. Frequently used motifs and forms include the skull, the crown, and dismembered parts of animals—allusions to historic narratives and mythologies.
Soft Sculpture by Sergio Roger
Sergio Roger’s work is born from his constant search for inspiration in the ancient artistic representations of beauty. The artist reinterprets iconic elements of art history and decorative arts to break away with preconceived ideas by creating unique and elaborated textile sculptures.
Each of Sergio Roger’s works is Unique and is created from antique fabric remnants. The artist himself carefully selects these materials from antique collector stores. He chooses fabrics such as old linens and velvets, which carry the passing of time and bring soul to the work. For example, in his series of linen busts, he brings a new vision on this subject by replacing stone or marble with delicate pieces of antique linen. With this gesture, the artist wants to reflect on the idea of permanence and majesty that we associate with this traditional art form.
Jordi Diaz Alama Art
Artist and director of Barcelona Academy of Art Jordi Diaz Alamá has a vast relationships with academic and abstract ways of painting.
“Alamà offers through this series of saturated, vivid and imposing reds, a privileged peek inside the universe of the painter’s studio, the practice of working with life models and the vast plurality in sensuality. Red Studio synthesises the many layers of technical research the artist has acquired over the last decade. Academicism and abstraction coexist again on the canvas: a new aesthetic chapter carried out by an overwhelming expressive force in the form of a dance between the measured and the vigorous brushstroke.”
“Red Studio has been developed in parallel with another of Alamàs’s ambitious series of paintings illustrating scenes of Hell in Dante’s Divine Comedy. Both series have grown in the same space – the artist’s studio – a place that can too often become hell in itself. The fire of the Dantesque Hell seems to crawl into these classical anatomical studies and envelop the figures with an abrasive red enamel, the main unifying thread of the series. Similarly, the works from the #ClásicosDesollados series also make an appearance, engulfed in flames and hung at the bottom of the Red Studio‘s works.” - words by Albert Navales
Beeple: The First 5000 Days
Being a pioneer of digital art promotion - Designcollector is always looking for the breakaway artists whose intuition way ahead of the main peloton. Groundbreaking digital artist Mike Winkelmann known as Beeple is one of them. Since 2007 Mike has created 5,000+ digital artworks by following a simple rule: one image per day. The diligence paid off when the rise of NFT trading burst like a fresh wave onto the digital art scene just at the moment of another lockdown after another lockdown during 2020. Beeple played a huge role in reinforcing beliefs in quite an ephemeral way of selling unique artworks for cryptocurrency by imprinting them “forever” into Ethereum blockchain.
His January’s drop of a dozen phygital artworks (non-fungible token JPG + physical collectible including a certificate “signed” by artist’s hair in a capsule) rocketed the NFT scene by a one week auction on Nifty Gateways platform.
And here come Christie’s what means art institutions started to look (if not late) onto the opportunity to catch an NFT wave by putting Beeple’s EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS - a huge stitched image featuring all images he created over 13 years. Organised in loose chronological order, zooming in on individual pieces reveals abstract, fantastical, grotesque, and absurd pictures, alongside current events and deeply personal moments. The NFT is minted on another platform Makersplace and is available for bidding on Christie’s website
“The notable difference between the pictures from Day 1 (1 May, 2007) and Day 5,000 (7 January, 2021) reveals Beeple’s immense evolution as an artist. At the project’s inception, Everydays consisted of basic drawings. Once Beeple started working in 3D, they took on abstract themes, colour, form, and repetition. In the last five years, however, his digital pictures have became increasingly timely, often reacting to current events.” says Christie’s in its groundbreaking article
“Art should be everywhere and everyone should live like an artist and create their dreams. In a decentralized world, this is possible.”
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Edgar Invoker
Saint-Petersburg, Russia based artist Edgar Invoker creates quite surreal and experimental artworks by mixing digital tools with airbrush, monotype, liquid acrylic, masking. Practicing techniques contributing to lucid dreaming, he fixes the experience and understanding in the form of paintings. The main technique is to create an abstract form in the form of a blot or a paint print, followed by a "manifestation" of a specific image using a set of techniques.
VENUS VICTRIX HODIE by Marco Battaglini
Artist Marco Battaglini known for juxtaposing graffiti and classic art released a full-body sculpture of The New Contemporary Venus “VENUS VICTRIX HODIE” in collaboration with Kylie Jenner
“In coherence with the same artistic theme that I have been developing, I wanted to show the contrast of aesthetic ideals, how the concept of beauty has changed and shaped society.
As always I enjoy playing the game representing the contrast between the classical ideals of beauty and the contemporary ‘anti-aesthetic’ of the world of urban hip-hop and graffiti culture.”
