“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
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Nathaniel Rackowe (b. 1975)
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.”
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@briscoepark
American fine art photographer that enjoys Sci-fi like settings. Briscoe Park lives and travels in his van shooting strange concepts.
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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
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@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.
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Buried, 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.
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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.
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.”
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@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
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The CG video ROBOTICA by Giuseppe Lo Schiavo is a 58 seconds animation inspired by contemporary theatre, combining elements from ancient greek culture, robotics, and digital art with a photorealistic visual aesthetic. Lo Schiavo is fascinated by some of the greatest masters of contemporary theatre and dance of the late twentieth century as well as by Bill Viola’s video art and Crypto Punks.
Despite robotic figures, the video is all about projecting humanity through technology and is inspired by artists such as Dimitris Papaioannou, Pina Bausch, and Bill Viola.
The performance is divided into three main scenes. They all manifest a particular feature of human socialisation.
The first dancing act is inspired by the idea of humans as a unique collective organism, a group of synergistically interacting organisms of the same species all working for the collective benefit. This view attains liberation from self and individualism.
ROBOTICA official release 30th June on @SuperRare x @AsteCambi
— Giuseppe Lo Schiavo (@GlosArtist) June 28, 2021
#nftdrop #cryptoart #crypto #digitalart #glos #superrare #CryptoNews pic.twitter.com/PUwfEPmXNQ
Opening today the exhibition Dystopian Visions at @AsteCambi curated by @SerenaTabacchi @bruno_pitzalis
— Giuseppe Lo Schiavo (@GlosArtist) June 24, 2021
Happy to be part of this incredible project! #nft #NFTartwork #robotica #NFTs #nftart #nftartist pic.twitter.com/265Yu8hUw2
The second act is
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Valorant Anthem directed by Carl Eddy at HVY MNTHL
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@eugenekorolevart
Moscow-based digital artist Eugene Korolev stretches his imagination and our perception in all possible directions
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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
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@borispelcerart
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.
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@twothirdshoney
Sharing the work of fashion and lifestyle photographer Hannah Thornhill
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Discovered on “Accidentally Wes Anderson” (@accidentallywesanderson) Jeffrey Czum photography and photography manipulations stands out either by a colour palette or by a message and its realisation
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Henrik Aarrestad Uldalen is a self-taught artist whose creative production revolves around classic figurative painting, presented in a contemporary manner. Henrik explores the dark sides of life, nihilism, existentialism, longing and loneliness, juxtaposed with fragile beauty. Though a figurative painter, his focus has always been the emotional content rather than narratives. The atmospheres in his work is often presented in a dream or limbo-like state, with elements of surrealism. He’s recently went active on NFT Scene with his highly requested artworks available on Hic et Nunc platform
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Julia Nimke is a Berlin based photographer. She loves to physically get to a place whether it’s hiking up to the basecamp of Matterhorn for Lufthansa magazine or kayaking at 4 am to document the golden sunrise during a commercial shooting. Being in the outdoors and the joy that comes with it is the main source of inspiration of Julias work. Telling authentic stories fitted to a brand’s narrative is her mission. Julia’s craft is trusted by international companies in the field of tourism, automotive and tech. Being an early user of Instagram Julias has over 50k followers, who travel the world virtually through her work. As a former Adobe Creative Resident Julia loves to share insights of her creative process through speaking engagements.
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@aaronnagel
Aaron Nagel is a figurative oil painter living in Oakland, US. As the self taught artist he is using classical oil painting techniques and traditions to show vivid images of the female form and portraiture. He has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Philadelphia, Tucson, Miami, and New York and has shown at international art fairs such as Art Miami, Scope, and Art Revolution Taipei
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Dutch-Canadian photography artist Ryan Koopmans continues his ongoing photographic exploration of surreal architecture, structures and megacities around the world with an emphasis on the social and environmental consequences of hyper globalisation. Recently he has teamed up with Swedish artist Alice Wexell to create The Wild Within, a series that brings new life into abandoned buildings from a bygone Soviet era.
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