Antonia Lev
Russian urban street artist and illustrator Antonia Lev shares her obsession with femininity, nature and freedom through colourful murals and artworks
Cabeza Patata
Cabeza Patata was created by Katie Menzies and Abel Reverte few years ago to bring diversity and female empowerment and create a world of playful yet strong characters, full of energy and positivity.
Laura Breiling Illustrations
Berlin-based Laura Breiling illustrates the life in its finest - always actual, diverse and speaking truth aloud. If 2020 is still not an eye-opening year for the viewer, what else can be?
Studio Form & Rausch
Directed by Hannes Lippert, the Berlin-based contemporary design studio Form & Rausch creating stunning eye-candy dream scapes and spaces
Douglas Hale's Collage Art
“Douglas Hale’s witty collages play with pieces of found imagery, colour and symbolism. Hale uses contemporary graphic styles to produce fantasy landscapes and unusual profiles, combining tribal and mythological references in contrasting tones beautifully strange scenarios.” via @trendland
The Anti Art Fair, 2018, London. Digital Decade booth
World Wide Webb
British digital artist Thomas Webb has been already spotted on our radars, during the intervention of the Digital Decade at The Anti Art Fair, 2018 where he presented a digital mirrors displaying the interactive infographics of real-time social anxiety issues.
Fear Of Being Transparent (Digital Infinity Mirror), 2018, König Galerie
Webb works with video game engines, custom-written physics applications and 3D rendering software to recreate themes inside the computer; Hand-building various electronic machines and inventions to re-interpret these virtual artworks into hyper-realistic four-dimensional artworks. Webb challenges the barrier between the viewer and technology used to display computer-generated artwork to create a seemingly technology-free consummation.
Webb invented the digital infinity mirror; an innovation of the infinity mirror using high power commercial LED displays, custom-built computer hardware. This combination of materials realises his vision of a digital medium that shifts in 4-dimensions as a function of each viewers perspective.
Inside his artworks, he questions the real-life scenarios and consequences created through our newly acquired, daily use of technology. Harnessing real-time data feeds from mortality statistics, stock market prices and social media feeds to juxtapose a reflection on ultimate contemporary life. He is often touching on themes of mental health, addiction, big data and control as a guinea pig of the internet revolution and asking questions about the various implications of its application on modern society.
World Wide Webb @ König Galerie, 2020
14 Aug 2020 - 14 Aug 2021, König Digital
The WORLD WIDE WEBB is a virtual world driven by Artificial Intelligence and real-time data. The digital visitor enters through the browser on a smartphone, and is invited to do an exercise in hopeless nostalgia. The WORLD WIDE WEBB is a multiplayer simulation, a digital exhibition space, and a world full of art and characters the visitor interacts with. Webb also recreates the social spontaneity of the world pre-Covid-19.
The cultural theorist Mark Fisher states that the future has been lost because humans keep returning to the past and wallow in nostalgia when trying to develop concepts for the future. Due to coronavirus not only the future but also the present have been cancelled. Webb triggers a common fascination for the past by imitating a 80s video game aesthetic. This old technology is the starting point for him to imagine a possible near future.
Webb created a world in which data is used as a common property. What if companies collecting data aren’t allowed to sell the data but are required to share it? What if data is not used in the interest of a company? How do people feel when an AI tailors a life for them based on their personality, choices they make, and things they enjoy through technology?
World Wide Webb, 2020
On display at KÖNIG GALERIE are 12 digital artworks by Thomas Webb. He demonstrates what data can be used for now with the limitation in place by the tech companies not sharing the data. At the same time, he creates spaces that allow the users to experience connection through technology without monetizing their actions. RAINFALL for example is an algorithm constructing moments that can be shared by two or more people. With DEPRESSED TWITTER, Webb contributes to the dialog about the effects of social media on mental health. The tweets about depression without the display of the usual information such as user name, profile picture, follower numbers and likes are a reminder that individuals suffering from social media are often socially stigmatised. When the digital visitors leave the gallery, they enter an AI-driven simulation that shows the world what it would be like if data was free. Webb built cities like Berlin, Osaka and Kanagawa with clubs, bars, shops, schools, and homes.
Sunsetting by Jeff Masamori
Jeff is a Senior Art Director at Huckberry, an occasional freelancer, and chef de cuisine at Mi Casa. Beside these he loves shooting and exploring the outdoors, and recently comes up with a long-term project “Sunsetting” - a zine featuring selected shots made in SF.
Sunsetting
“At the end of a 10-year spell living in the sunset district of San Francisco, I created this short series of photographs documenting the character of the area—taken at the time of day from which the neighborhood gets its name.”
Bite tongue, deep breaths
Glitch Art by Azamat Akhmadbaev
Azamat Akhmadbaev (b.1991) is a visual artist who lives and works in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He works across many disciplines including painting, photography, video and digital art. His artworks operates in the gap between glitch art, abstraction, minimalism and graphic art. Also he is a founder/editor-in-chief of @dontpostme_magazine - a magazine about contemporary art. Private collections in Russia, Spain, the USA, the UK and Poland
We’ve approached Azamat this July to create an artwork for our Special Edition of @Digital.Decade reflecting on the current situation in the world. He came up with “Bite tongue, deep breaths” available for collecting on @seditionart for your digital home and mobile screens.
BITE TONGUE, DEEP BREATHS, 2020 is a part of an ongoing series of digital artworks by Azamat Akhmadbaev. This artwork continues to explore the limits of digital art world, and it was inspired by a song by Clams Casino & Imogen Heap ‘I’m God’.
Having taken the repeating words ‘bite tongue, deep breaths’ from the song, the artist has transformed a sampled song’s melody and text into the colorful artwork with infinite number of layers. Using glitched, vandalized images and texts (in a special, manually designed fonts) as brushes on a digital canvas, Akhmadbaev represents a dualism of the digital and the real, physical world. Technically, the artist checks out the ability of auto and manual software tools to create the image with glitched, lost, degraded effects. Conceptually, the artist launches the self-reflexive process with a manifestation of his attitude to the legacy of the post-war (abstract painting) and 90’s (usage of computer technologies in art) periods. And references to the popular song are the digitally manipulated links with culture and time in history discourse.
Polina Okean
Russian illustrator Polina Okean easily transforms her colourful works to murals and back to prints. Following a minimal visual approach creating quite self-esteemed and good looking characters
Ricardo Gonzalez Lettering
IT’S A LIVING is not just a statement but it is also a life philosophy for Ricardo Gonzalez, a designer, and artist from Durango México currently living in Brooklyn. His signature script style can be easily recognised from large scale murals to commercial work for some of the biggest brands to a simple sticker in the streets.
The ambiguity in the typographical messages continually creates a dialog between the viewer and the artwork. “A word is an image” and an image can be interpreted in so many ways, the direct approach of typography has been an exploring path where the main goal is to question our daily living and to produce a positive impact. After all, it’s a living.
Morten Lasskogen
Denmark-based artist, Morten Lasskogen a.k.a Moteh on Instagram has people sold with his unique artwork that just pulls you in and fascinates
Super You AR by Universal Everything
Super You is an AR costume arts experiment by Universal Everything. Aim your camera at your super friend, see them transform and swipe to change costumes. There are 11 super costumes to choose from, which also sample the colours of the clothes you are wearing.
Using the latest body tracking technology, film your Super You taking a walk in the park, dancing in the kitchen or relaxing on the sofa. Make a film of your creation and share it directly from your device’s gallery to social media, using the hashtag #SuperYouAR to join in with this collaborative artwork.
(It is compatible with devices which have the Apple A12 and A13 chip.)
Brushes by The Dink
London-based motion designer The Dink shares his experimental short that follows the movement and personality of various household items. The environment that each brush finds itself in directly impacts the way they move. with each scene depicting a unique movement and flow providing an individual character to each brush. The collection of brushes chosen, each have very distinctive bristles and textures in order to showcase the contrast of each animation.
Design, animation and direction by The Dink
Sound design by Echoic Audio
Mineralogy Illustrations Sorted By Colour
“When Nicholas Rougeux came across the massive collection of mineral illustrations that British naturalist and illustrator James Sowerby created at the beginning of the 19th century, he wondered what they would look like arranged by colour in a big collage. And, well, he spent the next four months doing exactly that: arranging all of Sowerby’s illustrations from the 718-plates-strong series British Mineralogy containing minerals found within Great Britain and Exotic Mineralogy containing those from beyond its borders.”
Official Poster
The result is the stunning project British & Exotic Mineralogy
When the drape falls, Digital Decade SE, 2020
Grégoire A. Meyer for Digital Decade SE, 2020
Award-winning artist Grégoire A. Meyer creates digital illustrations that evoke thought-provoking reactions. His art examines the body in its extraordinary simplicity as a biological, digital and aesthetic organism. He captures the essence of fleeting moments, like a splash of water or a disintegrating face, and freezes them in time in objects that appear almost tangible. His works create a complex relationship between fact and fiction.
We’ve approached Grégoire this July to create an artwork for our Special Edition of @Digital.Decade reflecting on the current situation in the world. He came up with “When the drape falls” available for collecting on @seditionart for your digital home and mobile screens.
““The horse represents our last hope and challenges the concept of black as darkness and as the drapes slips off with its own weight - the future of humanity will be exposed..””
Digital Decade SE 2020 - VR Exhibition
Garden of Hubris, oil and acrylic on canvas
Sholto Blissett Art
Sholto Blissett (b.1996) is an artist from Salisbury who lives and works in London.
Garden of Hubris I, water based emulsion on canvas on board
Growing up surrounded by the ancient sites of Stonehenge and Avebury stone circle, Sholto has always had an interest in the fictions which societies create in an attempt to understand their place in nature. Hence, Sholto’s largescale, fictional landscapes explore humankind’s relation to nature. At first glance, he evokes the Kantian division of the human and nonhuman; yet his works then turn the viewer towards the Sublime realisation that these two notions are indivisible. Thus, the original, Kantian conception of the Sublime in which the human and natural are purported as separate are challenged by the alternative arguments emerging from the events of the Anthropocene. Sholto encourages the viewer to realise their – our – inescapable intertwinement with the natural world.
Yinka Ilori Studio
Yinka Ilori is a London based multidisciplinary artist of a British-Nigerian heritage, who specialises in storytelling by fusing his British and Nigerian heritage to tell new stories in contemporary design. He began his practice in 2011 up-cycling vintage furniture, inspired by the traditional Nigerian parables and West African fabrics that surrounded him as a child.
Daniel Carlsten
Stockholm-based digital artist and art director, Daniel Carlsten worked as an art director at Acne before starting to work freelance. He has since been commissioned by clients such as Le Bon Marché, Herman Miller, Rimowa, Van Cleef & Arpels, and done editorial work for Dwell Magazine and Nowness.
His work is represented in the permanent collections of the National Museum in Stockholm and the Röhsska Design Museum in Gothenburg.
Ricardo Cavolo
Ricardo Cavolo is a Spanish artist based in sunny Barcelona. His eclectic international style is based on relationships with folk art, traditional and modern tattoo culture, Western religious imagery and the tribal arts.
Cavolo’s art is all about stories, characters and their experiences across time. Utilising art as a complex narrative, Cavolo often focuses on portraiture. These depictions propel protagonists to champion their unique tales. Referencing religious and historical fiction illustrations, his use of symmetry and symbolism connect to a modern and playful audience. Cavolo’s portfolio features public murals and art exhibitions across the globe from Paris to Moscow and Mexico City to Hong Kong. Notably Cavolo’s body of work includes illustrations, publications, fashion collaborations and a wide variety of commissioned works.
