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you know the time demick has dominated cultural life. shouted the people what is it meant for. how to deal with this is all stuff. today everyone's talking about krypto often and if t.'s. pixels. and paintings. 21. after many months visitors are. gathering. despite the lockdown he says that he survived the past year amazingly well. as a viewer it was a very successful year for us and we were able to develop new formats which will enable cost neutral and seo. to new to cycles. he sold this

installation by the japanese artist she hard to a client in asia the fact the trade is currently taking place almost exclusively online was not a problem his website features a labrat 3 d. visits. and when his gallery takes part in online arthurs our life chats with artists. and johan clearly does comfortable with the art world going digital he thinks that social media platforms enable much needed global dialogue as you couldn't have missed its all star you can see the demand for exchange tell if you look at how telegram groups she used to post from commutes all possible but there's probably a generational gap and innovation problem on the pulse of all federal can isis it's probably. better to type the art fairs have not done so around their era may be

coming to an end sales on the market fell by more than 30 percent last year. these eons are also under huge pressure particularly in the u.s. the past year has seen fewer funds from sponsors some had to sell works to avoid closures. and what about the artists when monica bond the chinese exhibitions were canceled or postponed she had more time to spend in her berglund studio. last year i've been drawing so much more because i was in the space here i have to space but in this space i will still to be alone which doesn't happen very much i was recently into music every louds of which i didn't do a since a long time and i was the droid and you know i'm just making drawings. it was an unusual situation normally she spends a lot of time preparing for her exhibitions which are lobert time consuming her insta. lation sometimes feel entire rooms. around

our. farm but she often works with professional welders builders and tailors none of this was possible when the workshops closed down she was not the only artist affected. most of them do not have new productions because they were up shops were closed so in the bat. say and say i think there is still a saying selfie you know everybody is kind of waiting but she is optimistic that the waiting will soon be over and real life exhibitions will be allowed again digital exhibitions are not ideal for her. for an artist like me was being all this water came from the beginning with the idea of confrontation and physical confrontation with the public right it's. it's it's impossible to do a top 500 because collector harald fucking bird used to spend

a lot of time at art fairs looking for the next great work but he's also not very keen on the online alternatives. from anyone on a pal account just look at 250 works strong in a row because i no longer know where i saw something that's not if i go to an often i'll know that i sold to works in a gallery and so return to the us national it's been 2 or 3 hours looking to see if there's something for me accountable with others also offering something by the same artist he's a collector of the old school one who's very familiar with the art world and has built up a huge network of artists and gallery over the years he's not a fan of the click and collect mentality. like he does and don't know why but i'm not sold maybe one day it'll be like amazon this is like online retiled through come straight to your home and you have the right to send something back within 4 weeks just wait for it times are also changing in the renowned auction houses

online auctions have become commonplace but the pandemic that is an auction without the collective excitement not a bit down. i think that a personal network is more important to the seller and. that's one thing i would also say it's a generation issue. the younger the collects is the more likely they also agree to digital means of communication and except of the justice could. like it or not the artwork is going digital for good but what's also true is that the real life experience of being up close to the artworks cannot be easily replaced. throughout the crisis. has been doing what he always does he paints gigantic come

the stars and keeps his spirits up in the pandemic. dark figures expressionless faces. compelling and mysterious imaginative colorful overwhelming scenes. this is the world of your own os. one of the leading german painters of his generation. it was called the main problem with painting is always the illusion there east bugs i have a flat picture i have to work in 2 dimensions but sometimes i have to think in 3 dimensions so it's always about lights and shite and. there's no feeling of pandemic depression here on us blog at and his son are doing fine. and there's plenty to do at home.

and plenty to do in the studio look at is preparing for a major exhibition and over his oversized pictures will soon be making their way to the long museum in shanghai one of china's major private museums. as long as it was a long museum plays an important role as one of the museums where progressive discourse about contemporary art takes place in asia this week that's why it's so important. from the long family all of the initiators and big name collectors in asia they're very open and look in many different directions. normally don't ask borg that would have visited the exhibition space on site but you took over it he has to make do with a model up to 20 paintings are due to be sent to shanghai and

a painstaking consideration is going into how they will be hung they can factor in previous experience he's had with chinese audiences. it's got a on or i have an exhibition that's still going on in beijing the galleries it's there have reported that people are very interested but also completely bewildered because they're not familiar with this visual language it was and that's very interesting. how do we hence are intercommunication on a level that doesn't work verbal ie the visually false when it. is painting this picture especially for the shanghai exhibition it aspires to new heights in what has been a stellar career when he 1st started he was an odd man out with his figurative imagery bucking the prevailing trend towards abstract painting in 2006 he started exhibiting in the portrait sent in gallantly humble work it's represented him ever

since by the time of his 1st solo exhibition in 2010 the art lovers packed tubing and quinn's tala to the rafters his exhibition in london in connection with the blaine southern gallery also raised international eyebrows his 1st solo show in asia was in hong kong in 2019 by then you're not borg a visual language spoke to people worldwide. dimension got people everywhere have similar dramas desires and yearnings but also treachery and brutality you're not war god has no interest in quick messages he asks existential questions the experience of the ongoing pandemic gives his viewers another perspective on his imagery a new sense of urgency has taken hold nobody had to and. recently i had a long phone conversation with an author guy in new york or he said got kind of crazy for now i understand your picture is much better and it is because so much

existential and serious thinking has entered the discussion moment which maybe the brakes have been pulled on all this pop culture at one time. if all goes well this exhibition will be opening and shanghai on july 23rd. join us beauregard has time until then for his pictures and other things as well. kind of help when crises 10 years ago the tsunami hit japan causing a nuclear disaster a national trauma. a group of artists responded swiftly. and usual insights into food bitten territory no man's land radioactive inhumane to tokyo artist collective chimp on the right in the middle of the exclusion zone around the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant shortly after the 2011 disaster.

today the contaminated area has become a creative ground for dealing with the ongoing trauma as a catastrophe. there must look. to the sea i had no idea until i went there when i actually went there i was shocked. the fact of the city was empty. it was very scary for me even though i was in the car. there is this place so dangerous there are no people here i thought you could have a bit you can see the radiation. that's why i was so scared what they're willing across the water or they really need it and it's got a little bit of it at all over there. 10 years ago on the eastern coast of japan's main island of honshu following an earthquake a tsunami struck the fukushima daiichi power plant leading to the worst nuclear disaster since chernobyl ringback ringback ringback.

soon after the accident jim palm went into the area to help out and connect with residents the collective had the idea of an exhibition in the exclusion zone and invited other artists to work in a band and spices chinese artist ai weiwei placed functionals of his family into deserted homes on another house he installed a solar panel illuminating it for 5 hours every day. the artist for permission from the residents to enter their homes as long as the band had been lifted residents were only valid back a few times a year. rather the initial idea was that the artwork would be in the house instead of the inhabitants that their owner inhabited each year and the artwork experiences the act of being in the place for a long time instead of the inhabitants of. a verdict an awful so clearly are

not exempt as of this project and now on display in meter a town 150 kilometers away from the restricted zone. the exhibition explores how artists have reflected in the consequences of the catastrophe of the last decade. according to curator you took a huge sound back then most artists had few means to express. themselves jews are trauma but i managed to recall the immediate aftermath of the disaster. located in the prefecture next to fukushima the museum was hit by the earthquake but not affected by the radiation. i saw that the artist was 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 hearing process involves building a collective memory. artist nishi kong 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 with disturbing beauty picaro fuji's work reveals a social issue that appealed after the tragedy discrimination against fukushima residents who was seen as contaminated prejudiced fumes by the fear of an invisible stretch. join says the river i'm on my that this discrimination of 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 that all of us are in a situation where we discriminated and are discriminated against. and i thought of this situation would be an opportunity to create a work of art not an organ up to water course our parents could use that out and i think you know nothing that any of it. no i get that and us that was lost. in the mail but i'll get up on the end thought on a sunday dish or can like be a clique for tolerance and all that go on that's on. the lawn not that that's not so much. for the next generation because that is after what happened again unfortunately yeah we've done that and i think we can say that that's the kind of fact all they did and it's just a matter that the when and how much i mean now 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 friendly place. for the you know not as long as we live on this planet so we'll probably be many more difficult situations in the future so you know how we're going to deal with these situations i think we are entering a period where we will have to face the fact that a clue is a little cool so looking through the put up this is not. an era of crisis and disaster an extraordinary time that might also change the way we think about and create. his

1st gained popularity in the pandemic fees he's been putting most on portraits by old most of us. and this was ahead of his time. how many times have we seen these kinds of noble figures in museums the rich and the beautiful 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 countries are 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 by 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 a swigs for instance one stood for a great wealth. it's like a hell most satirizes the conventions of the past era while masking actual faces to

divert attention from them in the midst of the enduring 2 by removing this individuality the funny citizens and blocking our access to them as a business it's almost as if we were standing in front of the painting and holding one hand up to it so we can concentrate more on other areas unions of current. that's the highest of the gun so the incredible diversity of these pictures revealed as it becomes far more pronounced when i take away the faces the next few dark and. when it is effecting him. fika ham us 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. because turning point a few pixels have just sold for a record some of them exciting for the astounded artist and

a historic moment for the art market. that has stopped the adult art market in its tracks but in its place the true sensations taking 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. what i mean even though i like yeah it's like and unfathomable number to be quite honest it's just crazy. and the whole digital arc 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. and computer graphics so digital art is absolutely not a novelty just the way how does art is now being sold. the magical word is n f t r non fungible token it's revolutionizing the art market this technology records the owner's identity in a plock chain while the work itself remains publicly visible on the web for anyone to see. so what and it is the technical stand there to make a digital work of art where any just as that any file. s. it is unique so you get that total then what it may have. was the artist what was the vision 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. chilcats virtual basketball cards sold for millions. in your grime sold the digital art collection for $6500000.00. and now people have thanked shock waves for the record price tag for every day. i think there was no way they were before and so bad so big but but it was really influential so they have a huge huge impact our visual language are oral and so i think it now be on the look at them as you know we are asked i'm super super excited about.

and this real art was sold in a real auction house steeped in tradition christie's got on board auctioning everything as its 1st tokenized piece to say i'm not only meant recognition for digital art but how christie's millions in a win win situation. job it does i think when there's money and study people take things seriously so many people who are used to not really take this off form seriously and know having a closer look and that's great currency and of course the artist who created this was a quick go down in art history time. the buyer was a singapore paste fund that had made a fortune with crypto currencies 90 percent of the bidders at christie's were unknown is the new krypton elite divvying up the market people that will triple right now and that. come to the market and a lot of forms will be open i do not have much knowledge of the art market and

our enemies and our 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 bubble galleries and art museums are losing ground to digital art sounds so where is all this leading it's still open. if you throw it into the technological medium is often used to be judged well to stick merit but you have to make distinction that just like not every painted canvas is automatically worthy of display in a museum. the race is on 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

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