KVANT-1
Design studio from Norway, KVANT-1, creates mind blowing spatial visualisations and imaginary environments and looking forward into further exploration of the potential in concept design and illustration.
Griz EP Covers by Alycia Rainaud and Dorian Legret
If you are not following how digital art becoming a thing nowadays by landing on the NFT crypto-platforms, you better follow our friends and participants of Digital Decade Alycia Rainaud and Dorian Legret. For now just check their awesome collaboration on music covers for GRiZ
Fabian Oefner Disintegrating Art
Fabian Oefner`s work explores the boundaries between time, space and reality. He creates fictional moments and spaces, that look and feel absolutely real, yet aren't. Through this, Oefner dissects the different components of reality and gives us a clearer understanding of how we perceive and define it.
Inspired by science, Oefner`s approach to art is highly methodical and at the same time playful for unexpected moments to happen. He creates carefully orchestrated works, that are planned down to the last detail as well as pieces, that use a loose framework for art to happen.
In his highly acclaimed "Disintegrating" series, the artist portrays performance cars, that seem to blow apart. He creates these artificial moments in time by photographing every piece of the dismantled car individually and arranges them digitally into one photograph. Spending hundreds of hours on each piece, the photographs become a hyperrealistic rendition of a moment, that never existed.
Vasilisa Romanenko
Vasilisa Romanenko is a New England-based illustrator, designer, and fine artist. Her artwork depicts the mystery, beauty, and fragility of nature through the use of botanical elements, intricate patterns, and animals. She sees her paintings as windows into a magical world, much like the one she enjoyed getting lost in as a child while reading fairy tales. The lush blooming gardens, birds, and insects in her work are all used to explore the human spirit and its connection to nature. Vasilisa's primary medium is acrylic on canvas, although she works with watercolour, ink, and digital mediums as well.
Glass Screen as Metaphor by Tilman Hornig
Started in 2013 the ongoing research on glass screen as metaphor of a digital being is a central focus in Tilman Hornig career as an artist.
From an ontological point of view, computers – similar to Heidegger’s notion on Being – “are” not at all. Today, they are required to deter- mine any kind of being. They, therefore, precede any kind of being. Computers “are” not, they exist as an invisible given, which penetrates everything. Foremost, computers are nothing specific. As a universal medium, they are similar to that which Aristotle called the diaphanes, the “transparent” – an undetermined “in-between,” metaxu, which has to be formless in exactitude to take on any form and to transport all possible impressions. The significance of the computer also correlates to an image of the Stoics, the apeiron, ”the in-finite,” which, being primal matter par excellence, includes the possibility of any other matter, and which, exactly because of that, has no proper qualities itself. It is therefore no accident that transparency is the ethos of our time.
Glass Phone, 2014 ongoing
The phenomenon of virtual illusion denies reality by depicting it. The transparency is an exaggeration of emptiness and abundance of information and content at the same time. It creates infinite possibilities and makes the world a backdrop.
GlassPhone - Stille Nacht
Galerie Gebr.Lehmann, 2020
By throwing back the symbol of digital space, limitless communication, infinite information to its purely material form, Hornig makes the paradoxical cultural elevation visible. For the device as such is free of any content, it is a neutral surface and at no time permanent. Only at the moment of use does it transfer the surrounding reality into a virtual illusion of the same, thus becoming a mirror of countless, varying realities. The transparency of the "GlassPhone" refers to the actual function of the smartphone as a transmitter of information and translator between the worlds.
The complex and ever-increasing overlap of analog and digital realities is touched in the current exhibition "Silent Night" on a formal as well as on a content-related level. It shows 24 variations of a motif from the "GlassPhone" series. In the darkness of an airplane cabin - as the characteristic oval window hatch in the center lets us know - the human body disappears almost completely. Only the hand holding the sculpture is illuminated by the mystical light in the center of the picture, while the "GlassPhone" itself crosses the additional picture surface enclosed by the window frame in an almost perfect diagonal.The precise, harmonious composition differs in its execution only in this second picture surface, the landscape to be imagined and especially the atmosphere of light that radiates inwards and frames the sculpture like an aureole. Golden sunrises or sunsets, rosy pastel evening moods, deep blue night skies or greenish shimmering auroras create stylized hyper-realities. They reveal that this motif was digitally mounted.
Digital Art by Adam Rosol
Talented rising CG art star Adam Rosol shares his latest creatures under “Dispersion” project
Andrey Remnev Art
Andrey Remnev — modern Russian painter. The greatest popularity in the art world Remnev has gained for the paintings with visual motifs of Russian provincial life performed with a mix of late renaissance composition, ancient icons portraiture and Russian art of the 18th century.
Summit by Daniel Bushaway
A photography series of out of season chairlift structures shot by Daniel Bushaway
Art of Alina-Ondine Slimovschi
Timişoara, Romania-based artist Alina-Ondine Slimovschi always filtered the reality in a specific manner emphasizing the notions of solitude, melancholy, escapism, abandon, fears and expectations, love, lust, memory and recollection.
Virtual Exhibitions on Nifty Gateways
Gavin Shapiro at Nifty Gateway
“Gavin Shapiro’s ultimate goal is to produce work that makes you smile, and these days he aims to do that by making vibrant, surrealist 3D animation that doesn’t take itself too seriously but still retains a high level of quality. He's lived and worked in New York, Osaka and Paris, working on a large variety of projects including tv shows, commercials, outdoor displays, large-format stage visuals, and animations for casino games.”
His personal work, released under the name “shapiro500”, has been used as visuals at music festivals and shows all over the world, and has been shown on digital billboards as part of art exhibitions in New York City and Tokyo. His animations have accumulated hundreds of millions of views across Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Giphy.
His works are available today on the Nifty Gateway - the exclusive digital art platform featuring digital artists from all over the world that enabling collection of “non-fungible tokens” - a special type of cryptographic token which represents something unique, like Gavin’s artworks
Jeff Erickson Art
American Expressionist in a second generation Jeff Erickson creates landscapes that are inviting a lonely soul to take a deep fresh breathe and seize the moment⠀
Haunted Art of Nicholas Moegly
Artist and illustrator Nicholas Moegly creates haunted paintings of an abandoned rural suburbia occupied by natural inhabitants
Giga Topuria Photography
Georgian photographer basing and working in Saint-Petersburgm Giga Topuria has an eye on the beautiful moments, renaissance light and sfumato shadows, while catching classic compositions in an urban life of a top cultural city of the world we all love and live in.
Ben Ashton Glitch Paintings
Talented London-based classic-taught artist Ben Ashton granted a knighthood to his majesty the Glitch by creating awesome distorted portraits (mainly self-portraits) with oil on canvas. Ashton's work combines precision in execution with humour and character, balancing emotive response with a strong contextual foundation. Worth to mention his commission for Rag’n’Bone Man platinum single and then epic album “Human”. Ben did an a portrait of a singer that appeared on the cover art.
Utopia
by Camille Walala
Oxford Circus Re-Imagined in London by Camille Walala
Camile Walala, who recently painted a parade of shops in east London, got the idea to design a new Oxford Circus at the beginning of lockdown – when she says she was “struck by the silence of the streets” and “the sense of peace that had descended on London in the absence of the traffic”.
Pedestrianised, exploding with colour and full of imaginative street furniture designed to be interacted with in multiple ways, Camille’s Oxford Street is a place of joy, surprise and asymmetry – an antidote to the flatness and homogeneity that often characterise the standard high street.
In a letter accompanying the series, Camille reflects on her 23 years living in London, and credits the capital with sparking and shaping her career as an artist. This project, she explains, is in essence an expression of her love and gratitude for the city, as well as a serious proposal for a new, more enriching urban landscape. Full of colourful, bold architectural structures and 3D surfaces, the images present a vision of an urban thoroughfare that exists for more than practical purposes, inviting numerous forms of interaction. It’s a place for gathering and meeting, resting and rambling – evoking the multiple community functions of the agora, or public square, in ancient Greece. Walala imagines the space as somewhere the natural and the human-made can coexist and complement each other, weaving water and verdant plant life into her speculative streetscape.
Cho Sung-Hee Art
In constructing the surface of her works, Sung-Hee uses a collage method in which many circles are hand-cut or gently torn from traditional “hanji” paper, then layered with oil pigments and placed one atop another. Sung-Hee successfully combines a traditional Korean sensibility with her unique vision and personal narrative. Her works explore the complex relationship between colour and texture through a labour intensive, time-consuming process.
Luna Ikuta - Afterlife
Multi-media artist based in Los Angeles Luna Ikuta shares their love to frozen moments of a nature beauty through creating motion artworks featuring a short life of plants
Dark Side of the city by Aleksander Małachowski
Twilight in the city of Warsaw is photographed and re-imagined by Aleksander Małachowski
Through a range of perspectives, glaring upwards, scanning downwards and cutting across the city skyline, Malachowski’s lens searches the metropolis like a surveillance camera.
Graphic illustrations by Dima Kashtalyan
Minsk-based artist Dima Kashtalyan shares his black-and-white detailed ink drawings and same but scaled techniques he uses for creating urban art murals
Nature Rules by Bogdan Katsuba
Graphic designer Bogdan Katsuba has been featured on our pages with his visual research on common used symbols and brands. Here is his next interpretation of archaic coats of arms in a way they merge urban reality with natural environments
