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life. shock to the people what is it meant to. deal with. today everyone's talking about krypto often n.f.t. . pixels. and paintings. 21. many months this is a. 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 we were able to develop new formats which will enable cost neutral and c o $2.00 news. through 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 lot of brit 3 d. visits. and when his gallery takes part in online our fairs there are life chats with artists. your huntin he's comfortable with the art world going digital he thinks that social media platforms enable much needed global dialogue as you couldn't resist do from just it's all style you can see the demand for exchange tell if you look at how telegram group so she used polls from commutes all possible because probably a generational gap on an inflation problem that's on the pulse of all federal can isis. is a type of the art fairs have not done so well their era may be coming to and then

sales on the art market fell by more than 30 percent last year. the ins 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 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 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 a very loud 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 installation some. chems feel entire rooms.

are. bonded 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 are closed so in that sense i think that we see the same selfie you know everybody's 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. confrontation a physical confrontation with the public right it's. it's it's impossible to do a top 500 base 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 work strong in a rug because i no longer know where i saw something that's not if i go to an office i'll know that i stole 2 works in a gallery and so return to the us national it's open to all 3 i was 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 dollars over the years he's not a fan of the click and collect mentality. like it is and. maybe one day it'll be like amazon this is like online recycled 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 than to the buyer that's one thing i would also say it's a generation issue the younger the collectors all the more likely they also agree to digital means of communication and accept that the justice could actually. 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 last book has been doing what he always does he paints

gigantic canvases 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 borg adds one of the leading german painters of his generation. just because the main problem with painting is always the illusion or respects that i have a flat picture i have to work in 2 dimensions but sometimes i have to think in 3 dimensions thing 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 to look at is preparing for a major exhibition and. his oversized pictures will soon be making their way to the long museum in shanghai one of china's major private museums. it's rough. 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 that's why it's so important or different along families of the initiators and big name collectors in asia they're very open and look in many different directions. normally your own os 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 on 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 the wilted because they're not familiar with this visual language it was and that's very interesting. how do we enter into a communication on a level that doesn't work verbal but visually for sonia. is painting this picture especially for the shanghai accidential and 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 and quinn's 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 at the 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 arts 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 maybe the brakes have been pulled on all this pop culture. if all goes well his exhibition will be opening and shanghai on july 23rd. don't ask or god has time until then for his pictures and other things as well. kind of help with 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 beaten territory no man's land radioactive inhumane the tokyo artist collective chimp on the right in the middle of the students on 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 annoyed there until i went there it was there when i actually went there i was shocked. the fact of the city was empty was very scary for me so even though i was in the car. there is this place some dangerous there are no people here i thought you could have it you can see the radiation that's why i was so scared what they are going across the world or they really need it and it's got served 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.

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 functions of his family into deserted homes on another house he installed a solar panel illuminating it for 5 hours every day. now to stop a mission from the residents to into their homes as long as the ban had been lifted residents were only allowed back a few times a year. rather to replace the initial idea was that the artwork would be in the house instead of the inhabitants looking their own or inhabitants you know learn the art work experience is the act of being in the place for a long time so i know instead of the inhabitant. gave it to lawful to clear

dempster's of this project and now on display in metre 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 utaka his son back. and most artists had few means to express themselves cheetah 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 artists really going to that it is asked and then they started to do some volunteer work but afterwards they actually got to 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 com was posed as asked will depicts the real landscapes potentially contaminated with radioactivity japanese scenery disturbing beauty picaro food cheese work reveals a social issue that appeared 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 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 that this situation would be an opportunity to create a work of art not an organ up to who knows what there are. schools that out and. you know offended at any other dog at that dog and us that was. in my you know but other get up on the end funny sunday there's door cam like you a clique for tolerance level that go on enough that you. don't like that that's not promotes your. for the next generation because that is not the will happen again unfortunately yeah we've done that i think we can say that that's the kind of capital they did it 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 like the outbreak of the pandemic it's an experience that people all over the world have become familiar with. you know that as long as we live on this planet there will probably be many more difficult situations in the future or you know how we're going to deal with these situations because i think we are entering a period where we will have to face that over close 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 1st gained popularity in the pandemic. has he been put to mark some portraits by

old masters. hamis was ahead of his time. how many times have we seen these kinds of noble figures in museums the rich and the beautiful in the past era. these paintings were meant to demonstrate their subjects high standing and character. artists 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.

one can visit 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 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 great wealth. like a hammer 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. that's 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 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 just sold for a record something. exciting for the astounded artist and

a historic moment for the arts mark. colvin to stop the adult art market in instructs but in its place a true sensation taking hold with one digital piece being auctioned off for $69000000.00. in every day's artist people picks apart american society in $5000.00 images it fetched the 3rd highest price ever for a living artist leaving him each of us. what i mean even though i like yeah it's like a 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 and i'm hugely graphics so digital art is absolutely not a novelty. just the way how does your art is now being soul that's the novelty. the magical word is n f t or non fungible token it's revolutionizing the art market this technology records the owner's identity in a plucked chain while the work itself remains publicly visible on the web for anyone to see. so and it is a technical stand there to make additional work of art what any just as that any. essence unique so you get that talk 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 art mine called crash a flying cat sold for $650000.00 a tweet for several 1000000 crypto pap's virtual basketball cards sold for millions. in your grime sold the digital art collection for $6500000.00. and now people has sent shock waves but the record price tag for everything. else i think there was no way they were before and so bad but it but it was really influential so they have a huge huge impact our visual language or moral and so i think it now be on the. look at them as you know real art as 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 auction every piece as its 1st tokenized. to say i'm not only meant recognition for digital art but how 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 are used to not really take this off form seriously and know having a closer look and that's great. and of course the artist who created this was a quick 0 down in art history so i'm. the buyer with the singapore paste fund that he made a fortune with cryptocurrency is 90 percent of the bidders at christie's were known as a new crypt to meet divvying up the market people get the right now and that . i'm sure the market forms will be open i do not have much

knowledge of the art market and our enemies and houses and just really go by. what. 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's all this leading it's still open. if it's written the technological medium is often used to charge them all 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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