SKIO

March 25, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, France, Portfolios, Street Art

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

March 24, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Canada, Portfolios, Sculpture, United Kingdom

@a_zama_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

Billelis: In Memoriam

March 23, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, NFT Art, Portfolios

In Memoriam is a tribute to the memory of everyone who is no longer with us today.

To the ones who challenged us, created us, held us, helped, inspired, loved, respected, supported and pushed us.

Enter Full Experience

“..in the end of this I want to be remembered for this as well.. I also want people to remember this collections for what I stood and for the art, not for crazy money or crazy mechanics. The essence of it and the raw base of it which is the Art - that’s what I want people to remember..”

— Billelis

@billelis

Join Clubhouse discussion (24 Mar, 8PM GMT) before the Nifty Gateway NFT Drop

Or watch full interview with Billelis and jump to “In Memoriam” discussion right away

The "Equinox Collection" by GRIF

March 19, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, NFT Art, Portfolios, USA

GRIF ╳ Superrare 💎

A one-of-a-kind collection of digital artworks, re-imagining the cycles natural world in the digital space.
Each available as a unique NFT collectible for your Metaverse

The collection explores themes of escapism, re-birth, nature, and energy. Seen here in ‘Going Green’, we’re transported to a remote desert location, desolate and dry. A luxury car reflects the barren landscape from its manufactured shell.

March 20th! GRIF X @SuperRare - The "Equinox Collection".

5 Unique works coinciding with the spring equinox - bringing nature to your metaverse. https://t.co/U6SNa3sEQl #NFT #nftart #NFTCommunity #NFTartists #grif #shanegriffin #NFTcollection #NFTcollectibles #VisualArt pic.twitter.com/IZvCzAFNU2
— Grif (@Mr_Grif) March 13, 2021

Yes. But I humbly request a collab. https://t.co/6CZd81JzHQ
— Tony Hawk (@tonyhawk) March 17, 2021

In conjunction with the 2021 Spring equinox, ‘The Equinox Collection’ by GRIF will be exclusively available on SuperRare.

The collection presents surrealist depictions of the everyday as it is overtaken by nature. An invisible catalyst moves through each piece - a transfer of natural energy that pollinates each environment, reimagining it as an expansive floral tapestry.

The pieces are a juxtaposition between our manmade environments and nature. “This concept was born out of wanting to craft something optimistic and beautiful, but to create works thats can only exist within the medium of 3D” says GRIF. “What I love most is that these expressions of nature could never exist in the natural world, it’s a reinterpretation born only from the digital space.”

And now available exclusively in the digital space. The Equinox Collection will be released in weekly increments over the late March to April period on SuperRare.

See @GRIF’s page for official release dates as well as additional artworks.

As nature begins to take its course, the juxtaposition of the uninhabited environment and the floral growth creates a striking contrast

Juxtaposition of nature

Moreover, the introduction of floral growth finds itself in evolving on the more unexpected, non-organic surfaces in the scene. Populating the graphic and geometric lines of the basketball court markings, seen here in “Angels Gate”

3D as a medium

Here, in the re-imagining of ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ (Johannes Vermeer 1665), the flat oil painting becomes “dimensionalized”, as our camera investigates the finer details of the cracking paint and textural details. The form of the girl becomes appended with a blooming floral arrangement, representing the passing of time with something that is timeless, nature

Expanding the dimensions of these pieces is something only achievable by the medium of 3D animation, movement is essential to the presentation concept of the works

The Transfer of Energy

The cinematography of ‘Great Basin Skate Heaven’ is a blend of fish-eye and long lens zooms, paying homage to that of classic skate videos style that’s remained prevalent in the culture since its inception.

We follow a skater as they perform tricks and stunts in a skaters paradise, located in the Utah Great Basin. The idyllic sunset scene bears witness to the transfer of energy between this floral figure and the contrasting concrete environment beneath, saturated in graffiti. The figure acting as a catalyst, pollinates the park causing nature to reclaim the concrete

Superrare: GRIF

Kirill Maksimchuk

March 18, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, Russia, Portfolios, NFT Art

@nomorerender

Russian digital artist Kirill Maksimchuk known by collaboration with us on Digital Decade 5: Cyberia exhibition and DJ Carnage cover art shares his latest cyber works and jaw-dropping reel and step in to the NFT scene with his Cyberia citizen “Cybermancer”

Cybermancer

Cryptomancer

Neomancer

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Duality by Ash Keating

March 16, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Australia, Portfolios

@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.

@linden_new_art

On the view at Linden New Art Gallery with the title show “Duality” through 16 May 2021

Katsuyo Aoki Ceramic Sculpture

March 11, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Japan, Sculpture, Portfolios

@katsuyo_aoki

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.

Charlie Gray Photography

March 10, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Lifestyle, Photography, Portfolios, United Kingdom

@charliegraystudio

Charlie Gray is a British international fashion and portrait photographer based in London. His playful vision and dedication to the art of narrative grew out his love of theatre and early documentary photographic projects.

Charlie has captured some of the most iconic faces of our time, Robert de Niro, Mike Tyson, Harvey Keitel, Tilda Swinton, Keira Knightley, Bill Murray and sir Anthony Hopkins amongst others. equally, Gray frequently shoots poetic fashion stories with film and theatre’s faces of tomorrow.

Recently Charlie entered NFT art market from a position of a photographer, what make the whole buzz around cryptoart shaping more sense by delivering quality works ahead of CG experiments. Follow or bid on his works by the link below:

@charliegraystudio

Borja Alegre

March 05, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, Graphic Design, Portfolios, Spain

@bo.vk

Motion and Digital Artist based in Barcelona Borja Alegre shows off his skills

Lisa Odette

March 04, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, Portfolios, Spain, NFT Art

@lisaodt

Lisa Odette, digital artist, illustrator and animator currently based in Madrid, Spain. Passionate about colours and composition, she tries to bring unique visual voice to all the imagery sit in her portfolio and available for bidding online

Arch McLeish Photography

March 03, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Lifestyle, Photography, Portfolios, USA

@archmc

New York-based photographer and art director Arch McLeish likes the solace of empty places. His photography embraces traces of people, freeing up the space they leave behind for a myriad of interpretations.

Louis Vuitton Travel Book Saint Petersburg by Kelly Beeman

March 02, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Fashion, Illustration, Lifestyle, Portfolios, USA

@kellymariebeeman

Living in this masterpiece city always a pleasure to see how travelling artists accept it and admire its beauty. NYC-based Kelly Beeman was commissioned by Louis Vuitton’s Travel Book Series to create a body of work that play off the many unique traits of the city.

Soft Sculpture by Sergio Roger

March 01, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Portfolios, Sculpture, Spain

@sergioroger

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.

NASA MARS 2020 Mission Identity by Tobias van Schneider

February 24, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Branding, Graphic Design, Portfolios

@vanschneider

For the 2020 launch of the Mars Rover, NASA asked House of van Schneider to design a symbol capturing the energy and legacy of space travel, while celebrating the engineers who worked tirelessly on this mission.

At once an abstract representation of the iconic rover and blocks reaching up to the sky, the logomark works as beautifully on the rover as it does on a 191-foot tall rocket ship.

Do you know any other designer around whose work travelled to Mars? We know only Tobias! Proud to meet him during OFFF Festivals in Barcelona.

Mari Mad Maraca

February 23, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, Portfolios, Illustration, Turkey, NFT Art

@madmaraca

Voxel artist (3D pixel) Mari Mad Maraca shares her magic worlds available for collecting as Prints or Digital Tokens

Jordi Diaz Alama Art

February 22, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Portfolios, Spain

@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

Ilia Zharkov Tattoos

February 18, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Tattoo, Portfolios, Russia

@heavenly_beauty_tattoo

Time to refresh our #tattoos collection with a new masterpieces from Moscow-based ink artist Ilia Zharkov

Jack Harvatt

February 15, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Branding, Digital Art, Graphic Design, Portfolios, United Kingdom, NFT Art

@harvatt.house

Bristol based graphic designer Jack Harvatt beside creating bespoke packaging and identity systems is generating vibrant colourful CG scenes used in his latest artworks

Mark Constantine Inducil

February 11, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Australia, Digital Art, Portfolios, Illustration, NFT Art

@markinducil

Mark Constantine Inducil based in Melbourne creates surreal and abstract renders that won’t disappoint you

Weronika Dudka Photography

February 09, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Germany, Portfolios, Photography

@veronicadelica8

Interdisciplinary designer Weronika Dudka is a master of many talents, where architectural photography is only a part but took us all. Her trained eye frames the meaning of each brutalism building she photographed.