Christopher Burk art
Columbus based fine artist Christopher Burk focuses on depicting the American urban landscape through the vehicle of paintings, and drawings.
Alexis Olin illustration
Numerous visits to France since 1995 had a huge impact on Alexis Olin's art. Since then, painting, music, photography, and fashion have become connected in all the projects to which he relates. Despite the variety of activities, brushes with canvas and computer with digital pen remain a priority. The seven-year edition of the K9 comic book magazine and the fascination with the Franco-Belgian School of graphic novels form the basis for writing paintings and illustrations. Later, the work of the Renaissance, as well as contemporary artists from Europe and Asia, became the inspiration. Creating the Métrique brand gives the ability to constantly display his paintings on clothing fabrics, using them as canvases, thus taking the work outside the walls of the studio and gallery. An approach to all activities like NFT art is the key to Alexis.
Crossroads by Gregory Orekhov
The symbolic meaning of crossroads deals with choice, a twist of fate that establishes the preordained path in life. It is a place where space and time intertwine.
Gregory Orekhov’s “Crossroads,” made of polycarbonate and painted over with marking paint, is a crossing across the river, among fields which seemingly have no end. This land art object is located in the Moscow region, in the area of Nikolina Gora. With this work, the artist raises the question of social, ethical and environmental behaviour.
The 21st century has faced itself with acute problems of capital constructions, which contradicts the basic principles of urbanism and summons a lot of controversy and discontent among local residents. In pursuit of non-ecological development of the economy, the authorities allow more and more ground to be built upon, the nature of which is illegally destroyed for the purpose of self-gain without any clarity or thought.
“Crossroads” is an attempt to turn the world's attention towards heritage preservation and to remind people about the ability of choice. Gregory Orekhov stands at the crossroads between the quiet, foggy natural world and an impending catastrophe. The object is situated at the intersection of historic events that took place here at the time of the Second World War, and those that are yet to come.
This installation is not a personal reflection, more so, it is something that each of us encounters on a daily basis. This is about the unrestrained transformation of the space around, because of which, tomorrow, we can forever lose memorial places, favourite
Photography by Konstantin Antipin and Ilya Ivanov
Wooden sculpture by Peter Demetz
Italian sculptor Peter Demetz masterfully creates life-sized of wooden scenes that challenge the spectator’s perception with their spatial unfolding and seduce with their illusion as well as with their photographic quality of represented world
“The works of Demetz seem to be still frames of a serial, which needs to be discovered and of which the artist anticipates only some clues; not recognizable stories, but attitudes, something in a potential state, which attends to be resolved into a narrative.”
Refractions by Murat Sayginer
Murat Saygıner is a self-taught digital artist who works as a motion designer, filmmaker, photographer and composer presents his new NFT series “Refractions” as an ongoing collection of 4K / 60FPS seamless loops.
REFRACTIONS / I am refractive, and my art is the refraction of my life.
Morphing Dreamscapes from a Cosmic Exhibition.
About artist
Born in Prague in 1989, Murat Saygıner got involved with photography and digital art in 2007 and won numerous international awards. As early as 2008, his works were selected for "IPA Best of Show" exhibition in New York and in 2010, he was awarded Emerging Talent of the Year in "The Photography Gala Awards".
He has written, directed and produced several animated short films since 2013 which were screened in over 200 film festivals including Academy Award Qualifying Festivals such as "Animest" and "AIFVF". Six of his films were Staff Picked on Vimeo. In 2019, he assembled ten of his short films under the title of "The Flying Fish" which drew various reviews by acclaimed film critics and received the Vitriol Award as the Best Experimental Film in The First Hermetic International Film Festival in Venice.
Sophie Sturdevant
Self-taught and self-starting American contemporary artist Sophie Sturdevant focuses on the woman's body in her work and art, interpreting her as strong in her vulnerability and beautiful in her femininity through abstract figuration. “A woman’s beauty is like nothing the world has ever seen; she has a unique ability to be strong, but kind, and powerful, but soft, simultaneously”, Sophie states on her website
Photographer Titus Poplawski
Photographer Titus Poplawski uses an analogue camera to capture eerie and unsettling portraits of people, and his works are truly magical
“It’s not about the advanced technical challenges. It’s more about letting the film influence the final artistic result of the picture. I focus on narrative photography, which is a metaphor that tells about human beings. Thus a human being is the main subject of my photos”
Sea Plants by Mariko Kusumoto
“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 (b. 1975)
Nathaniel Rackowe
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.
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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.
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“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.”
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”
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Briscoe Park photography
American fine art photographer that enjoys Sci-fi like settings. Briscoe Park lives and travels in his van shooting strange concepts.
Olivier Caron
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
Texture Heaven by 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.
Buried, Joanna Grochowska
Opening The Future by Joanna Grochowska
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
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.”
CG Surrealism by 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
Exhibition World Cities by Andrey Denisyuk
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.
Iceland by Tom Kondrat
“For me, taking photographs is like meditation”
“This is Paper” did a great coverage of Tom Kondrat’s photography made in Iceland
Eugene Korolev
Moscow-based digital artist Eugene Korolev stretches his imagination and our perception in all possible directions
Roos van der Vliet
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
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.
