Elina Raincorn
Saint-Petersburg based digital artist working mainly with self-portrait photography manipulation by delivering new captivating image every week (or at least she promised that :)
Project Space Atlas by Vasilisa Lipatova
Distant, unknown and amazing here and now.
What is “distant”, “unknown” and “amazing” for us, what could you describe in such words? Most often we think this way or talk about two things: about the future and about space.
Same things we can also say about the art objects created by the modern artist and sculptor Vasilisa Lipatova. On the one hand, it is because the artist works with these two themes - “space” and “future” and creates them in her objects. On the other hand, it is because the techniques that the artist develops to create her works cause delight among the audience and great interest among professionals. And, finally, the emotions that the works bring are emotions of joy, surprise and delight, just those that we experience when we come into contact with something “distant”, “unknown” and “amazing".
Let's sort it out in order.
So, “Space" - how can you create art objects in the form of space, in volume?
Sculpt round planets and hang them from the ceiling?
Or cut it out of some material and put it on a pedestal?
Perhaps this would be the most obvious option, but as we said above - the artist likes to invent and develop her own techniques for creating art objects. The main technique in which all the interior art objects of the artist are created is called “manual 3D printing". This is a meticulous and delicate work with molten plastic thread, which allows you to “weave” three-dimensional aerial art objects almost literally in the air. And also to create flat canvases with three-dimensional elements on their surface - literally to imprint space in space and material.
It was exactly these artworks that made the artist famous and exactly these works caused such delight and such surprise among the audience.
And it was thanks to the development of this technique that the artist began to create both exhibition objects that are included in museum collections (for example, one of the artist's works was included in the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery) and small interior canvases that literally anyone can buy and hang at home, and thus not only touch art, but literally become involved in the international project of the artist “Space Atlas".
And also to make a profitable investment - every year the merits of the artist are literally growing before our eyes, and at the same time the works themselves are becoming more expensive.
Moreover, it is worth noting that the artist has entered the world art market and her international career only adds “advantages” to the main achievements.
It’s just enough to google “Vasilisa Lipatova” to see how many publications the artist has in different media.
Or you also can read her CV and see her participation and victory in international and All-Russian competitions, diplomas with first places from different years, as well as international exhibitions of such a level as the Biennale.
Separately, it is worth talking about royalties, the artist's works created specifically for a large circle of connoisseurs start from $ 100 - $ 300, this is done specifically so that a large number of people can easily afford to buy the artist's works. But at the same time, her royalties for the development of projects start from $ 5,000 and often $ 10,000, which significantly exceeds the average market prices, where the artist is often offered to develop a project for $ 1,000 - $ 500 dollars or even do it for free.
The project “Space Atlas” became for the artist another step in the arena of world fame and demand, in one year it grew from a small town project to an international one, several objects were included in museum collections, and one of the objects received the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Buryatia - the object “Legends of Baikal" became the first public art The object was located in the capital of Buryatia, the city of Ulan - Ude and immediately entered the collection of the most prestigious museum of the Republic - the TS Sampilov National Museum.
We will continue to observe the dizzying career of the artist, and we will continue to keep you informed about her new takeoffs and Space projects.
David's Bayo thousands of dots
French self-taught artist David Bayo is based in Strasbourg and specialised in highly detailed drawings rendered in ink, mostly using the Stippling technique. It is a drawing technique in which areas of light and shadow are created using nothing but dots. Painstakingly and meticulously!
Oswaldo Cepeda Photography
The face behind the alias of moodydarkroom is photographer and artist Oswaldo Cepeda. Originally from a small town in Wisconsin, Oswaldo decided to pursue his passion of art and felt that in order to do so properly, he needed to be in a new environment. Given the sprawling hub of opportunity that Southern California offers, Oswaldo decided to move to San Diego, where he is now based out of and calls home.
Oswaldo’s main focus is portraiture; however, his portfolio also showcases his passion for digital art. His portrait work is unique, featuring the abstract lighting techniques that he is widely known for. This ultimately sets his work apart from typical portraiture, often being described as other worldly, ethereal, and poignantly emotional. He uses his work to convey feelings that cannot be put into words and strives to demonstrate the raw emotions of human nature.
Anna Devís and Daniel Rueda
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“Valencia-based duo Anna Devís and Daniel Rueda add a playful twist to mundane settings and architectural backdrops. Whether flaring a skirt into a wide, cheesy grin, posing to prop up a facade’s stripes, or gripping the tail of a balloon that looks like a tethered sun, their minimal compositions turn geometric elements and open spaces into theatrical sets ripe with humor and joy.” - via Colossal
By combining their spatial awareness and their artistic vision, primarily based on simple shapes and bold patterns, they have succeeded in establishing magnetic and joyful narratives that smartly suggest both the nature of human relations and the fascination with the urban environment.
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”
A new reality
by Maxim Zhestkov
A new reality: Maxim Zhestkov for BMW
To celebrate the reveal of the new all-electric BMW i4, BMW invited Russian media artist Maxim Zhestkov to freely interpret the new vehicle, and create a series of digital artworks using the BMW i4 design and technology as his inspiration. The result is a series that is as mesmerising as it is unique.
“I started out studying traditional architecture, but somewhere down the road I came to realise that the 3D software we used for mapping and modelling had so much more potential. It felt like it was being used to create the final product or output, and then… the process was seen as over. It was very finite, and it just didn’t sit right with me. But then I saw that, in fact, the software, if I found a way to use it right, could become much more. It could be used to discover and experiment in ways that didn’t have a goal in itself. It could be the way itself; the means to explore .something new and unexpected.”
Zhestkov describes this realisation as a process of “personal and creative liberation.” By plugging into the ever-evolving and ever more advanced visualisation and rendering software he had available, he was able to explore spatiality, physics, visuals and mathematics in a way he hadn’t thought possible. He quickly became hooked.
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.
Pathfinding London
“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”
Curated by
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.”
