really going to that it is us there and then they started to do some volunteer work but afterwards they actually use their techniques to sort of. is at ease and heal the damage inside the people. the healing process involves building a collective memory. artist nishikant collects objects broken by the earthquake and carefully repairs them to give them a new life despite their painful history akira camos post disaster will depicts 2 real landscapes potentially contaminated with radioactivity japanese scenery disturbing beauty the kind of food she's work reveals a social issue that appeared after the tragedy discrimination against fukushima residents who was seen as contaminated prejudiced fumes by the fear of an invisible threat. join says the river come on by the pond

this discrimination of this is a very sensitive topic and so it was difficult for me to address the issue. but now we're living in a coronavirus pandemic society with that kind of all of us are in a situation where we discriminated and are discriminated against. and i thought that this situation would be an opportunity to create a work of art never not going up to where i want there. are grants crews that are out there missing you know us and that or any other stock at their store and us that was. in my aisle in the hall and now found on a sunday dish or came back a clean for tolerance family that go on enough and. thought enough but that's not democracy or. for the next generation because that is after what happened again. well fortunately yeah we've done that and i think we can say that

that's the kind of capital they did and it's just a matter that the when and how much and you know you know how that is you. in japan and natural disasters are part of ordinary life with the outbreak of the pandemic it's an experience that people all over the world have become family. but you know look as long as we live on this planet so will probably be many more difficult situations in the future so you don't really know how we're going to deal with these situations i think we are entering a period where we will have to face that was a little so we will put up the sort of. an era of crisis and disaster an extraordinary time that might also change the way we think

about and create. his has gained new popularity in the pandemic. has he been pretty modest some portraits by old masters foca hamis was ahead of his time. how many times have we seen these kinds of noble figures in museums the rich and the beautiful of past era. these paintings were meant to demonstrate their subjects' high standing and character. artist for guy hammond's loves portrait painting and draws inspiration from the work of his predecessors paintings like this one form the basis of ham s's images he processes the works of old masters digitally he valves and wraps he caricature hers and presents the purely

representational pictures in an entirely new way. we can visit who go there he can break down the hurdle to these works if you just had a humorous aspect which of the same time highlights important features of the image without overwhelming it is a mask a hammer aims to unmask he makes use of whatever is already present in the painting he adds nothing of his own but merely reproduces and deliberately exaggerates the codes built into the originals they were plain to see at the time of their creation but today they have to be painstakingly decoded. volume in its wigs for instance one stood for

a great wealth. a hammer satirizes the conventions of the past era while masking actual faces to divert attention from them in the midst of. enduring 2 by removing this individuality the faces of the ones and blocking our access to them as a business it's almost as if we were standing in front of the painting and our. the one hand up to it so we can concentrate more on other areas. does has a gun so the incredible diversity of these pictures revealed becomes far more pronounced when i take away the faces the few darton. any significant humor. fika hemis has been turning out his hidden portraits for some 10 years now last year he began posting them on instagram and became an overnight sensation perhaps because we've grown to appreciate masks.

they make us turning point a few pixels have just sold for a record some protection exciting for the astounded artist and a historic moment for the art market. that has stopped the analog art market in its tracks but in its place a true sensation has taken hold with one digital piece being auctioned off for $69000000.00. in every day's artist people picks apart american society in 5000 images it fetched the 3rd highest price ever for a living artist leaving him speechless. well i mean even though i like yeah. and unfathomable number to be quite honest it's just crazy. whole digital are pearl shares people's excitement

are we witnessing the dawn of a new era of art history. art words have been around since the sixty's in sounds and you measure video. on future graphics so digital art is absolutely not a novelty. just the way how does your art is now being so all the novelty. the magical word is n f t or non fungible token it's revolutionizing the art market this technology records the owners identity in a plucked chain lot of work itself remains publicly visible on the web for anyone to see. so and it is a technical stand there to make a digital work of art where any digital as that any file. s.

it is unique so you get that talk at him well that may have. was the artist's what was the edition size. and that you bought it and it you are the rightful owner. in this online gold rush a flying cat sold for $650000.00 a tweet for several 1000000. kill cats virtual basketball cards sold for millions. figure grime sold a digital art collection for $6500000.00. and now people has sent shock waves with the record price tag for everything. else i think that there was no way to work before and so bad but it was really in lieu actual so they have a huge huge impact our visual language are moral and so i think it now be our luck

look at them as you know we are as i am super super excited about. and this real art was sold in a real auction house steeped in tradition christie's got on board auction and everything is as it's 1st tokenized. this am not only meant recognition for digital art but how to christie's reap millions in a win win situation. i think when there's money and study people take things seriously so many people who used to not really take this off form seriously and know having a closer look and that's great groups and of course the artist who created this was a quick go down and all of history times. the buyer was a singapore faced fund that had made a fortune with crypto currencies 90 percent of the bidders at christie's were known as a new krypton elite t.v. not the market people that will cripple right now and that.

i'm sure the market forms with a really open i don't have much knowledge of the art market and our enemies and houses and just you only go by. what. some might ask with that needs for values in art they may think of it as just hype or an unprecedented art speculation babble galleries an art museums are losing ground to digital art sound so where is all this leading it's still open. places written for the technological medium is often used to judge them all to stick merit but you have to make distinctions just like not every painted canvas is automatically worthy of to splay in the museums. the race is on

code that has brought so much to a still stand but it's also a turbocharger like so many other things art may have to be rebooted in light of the pandemic.

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