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the pandemic has dominated cultural life. shouted the people what is it meant. deal with design. today everyone's talking about krypto often and if. pixels. and paintings. 21. after many months this is a. gathering. despite the lockdown he says that he survived the past year amazing. as if it was a very successful year for us. to develop new formats which will enable cost neutral and c o $2.00. 2 cycles. he sold this installation by the japanese artist she

harsh to a client in asia the fact the trade is currently taking place almost exclusively online was not a problem his website features a laboratory 3 d. visits. and when he's gallery takes part in online our fares our life chats with artists. johann clooney his comfortable with the art world going digital he thinks that social media platforms enable much needed global dialogue as you couldn't do from just it's all still you can see the demand for exchange tell if you look at how telegram groups or clubhouse he used to post from commutes all possible because probably a generational gap on innovation problem on the pulse of all fire organizers. is a type of the art fairs have not done so around their era may be coming to an end

sales on the art market fell by more than 30 percent last year. 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 artisans when monica bond to 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 year just base 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 drawing and you know i'm just making drawing. it was an unusual situation normally she spends a lot of time preparing for her exhibitions which are laboratory time consuming her installation. sometimes feel entire rooms.

are. bonded she ought to 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 walk shops are closed so the bat. sansa i think that we see the same selfie you know everybody is kind of waiting but she's 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 a physical confrontation with the public right it's. it's it's impossible to the way to the camber gains 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 rug because i no longer know where i saw something amiss if i go to an often i'll know that i saw 2 works in a gallery and so return to the us i should spend 2 or 3 hours looking to see if there's something for me as how to deal 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 it is and don't know why but i'm not sold maybe one day it'll be like amazon this is like online recycled through and come straight to your home and you have the right to send something back within 4 weeks just wait for it the times are also changing in the renowned auction house

and see online auctions have become commonplace but the pandemic but as an auction without the collective excitement not a bit dull. yes. 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 collective the more likely they also agree to digital means of communication and except for the justice could. be like it or not the art market 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 seas and keeps his spirits up in the pandemic. dark figures expressionless face it's. compelling and mysterious imaginative colorful overwhelming scenes. this is the world of your own awesome. one of the leading german pagers of his generation. it was called the main problem with painting is always the illusionary skies i have a flat picture i have to work in 2 dimensions but sometimes i have to think in 3 dimensions and so it's always about lights and shite and. there's no feeling of pandemic depression here your nuts blog at and his son are doing fine. and there's plenty to do at home.

and plenty to do in the studio work at is preparing for a major exhibition is 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 or the from the long family of the initiators and big name collectors in asia they're very open and look in many different directions for sheed in the. park would normally join us borg out would have visited the exhibition space on site but due to cove 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 yarn or i have an exhibition that's still going on in beijing 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 ensure intercommunication on a level that doesn't work verbal but visually for sonia. 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 fenton gallantly humble work it's represented him ever

since by the time of his 1st solo exhibition in 2010 the art lovers packed tubing in ft collins taller 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 and people everywhere have similar dramas desires yearnings but also treachery and brutality your last 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 old guy in new york or he said get kind of crazy for now i understand your pictures much better and it's because so much existential

and serious thinking has entered the discussion moment which maybe the brakes have been pulled on all this pop culture. if all goes well this exhibition will be opening and shanghai on july 23rd. don't ask for god has time until that for his pictures and other things as well. cannot help with crises 10 years ago the tsunami hit japan causing a nuclear disaster a national trauma. a group of artists responded swiftly. and usually insights into food beaten territory no man's land radioactive inhumane to tokyo artist collective chimp arm 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 artists dealing with the ongoing trauma as a catastrophe. i had no idea until i went there when actually when 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 that there are no people here i thought it was a movie you can see the radiation. that's why i was so scared what they are going across the world or they really need it it's got so that we don't get 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 'd.

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 turns on another house he installed a solar panel illuminating it for 5 hours every day. the artist got commission from the residents to into their homes as long as the band had been lifted residents were only allowed back a few times a year. you know that the initial idea was that the artwork would be in the house instead of the inhabitants looking their own or inhabited you know a lot of the artwork experiences the act of being in the place for a long time instead of the inhabitants. kick a verdict

a lot so clearly not a glimpse 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 100 some back then most artists had few means to express. themselves jews are trauma but they managed to recall the immediate aftermath of the disaster. is 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 asked and then they started to do some volunteer work but afterwards they actually use their techniques to sort of is at

ease and here 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 com was posed as asked the world to peaks to real landscapes potentially contaminated with radioactivity japanese scenery disturbing beauty he cut of food choose work reveals a social issue that appealed after the tragedy discrimination against fukushima residents who were seen as contaminated prejudiced fumes by the fear of an invisible threat. join says the river come on by the pound 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 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 not an organ up the author. screws that out and i think we have learned any of it. oh i get that and us that the last. email but i'll look it up on the end funny sunday dish door came like a clique for tolerance benefit joining us at. dawn laughed at that's not promote 0. for the next generation because the disaster will happen again unfortunately yeah we've done that anyway i think we can say that that's the kind of fact all they believe it's just a matter that the when and how much i mean not you know how that is you.

in japan natural disasters but part of ordinary life with the outbreak of the pandemic it's an experience that people all over the world have become from the place. to live you know look as long as we live on this planet there will probably be many more difficult situations in the future so we'll go how we going to deal with these situations because i think we are entering a period where we will have to face the fact who is responsible so it's not. an era of crisis and disaster an extraordinary time that might also change the way we think about and create. his has gained popularity in the pandemic. has he been putting some portraits by

old masters full k.m.'s was ahead of his time. how many times have we seen these kinds of noble figures in museums the rich and the beautiful of the 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.

countries are who go there he can break down the hurdle to these works if you just have a humorous aspect which of the same time highlights important features of the image without overwhelming it is by masking 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 great wealth. fika hemis satirizes the conventions of the past era while masking actual faces to divert attention from them in the midst of

them into reality 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 humans doesn't last as a gun so the incredible diversity these pictures revealed as it becomes far more pronounced when i take away the faces the next few dart and. any specific name. 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. because turning point a few pixels have just sold for a record some protection exciting for the astounded artist and

a historic moment for the arts market. that has topped the adult arc market in its tracks but in its place a 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 a unfathomable number to be quite honest it's just crazy. the 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 sound and when you measure video. and on future graphics so digital art is absolutely not a novelty. just the way how digital art is now being so all that's the novelty. of the magical word is n f t r non fungible token it's revolutionizing the art market because technology records the owners identity in a plucked chain a 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 he's essence unique so you get that talk then 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 sulker $650000.00 a tweet for several 1000000 could kill cats virtual basketball cards sold for millions. in your grime sold the digital art collection for $6500000.00. now people i think shock waves that the record price tag for everything. else 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 moral and so i think it now be on the. 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 auctioning everybody's as its 1st tokenized. the say on 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 at stake people take things seriously for so many people who used to not really take this off form seriously and know having a closer look and that's great concerned of course the artist who created this was a quick go down in art history so i'm sure. the buyer was a single perth based fund that had made a fortune with cryptocurrency s. 90 percent of the bigger is at christie's were unknown is a new crypt to meet t.v. not the market people that will cripple right now and that. come to the market and forms will be open i do not have much knowledge of the art

market and our enemy and houses and just really go i like. some might ask what that means for values in art they may think of it as just hype or an unprecedented art speculation bubble galleries an art museums are losing ground to digital art sounds so where is all this leading it's still open. if it's right in the technological medium is often used to be judged 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 the pandemic.

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