hey there i'm david and this is climate change. happiness increase book. for your. smarter for free books are you. going to melike. unfathomable number to be quite honest it's just crazy. there is no coming through the art market as it was before.

and now and then it has dominated cultural life. shouted the young people what is it meant to. deal with. today everyone's talking about crypto often and if. pixels. and paintings. 20 months. after many months this is a. gathering berlin 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 c o $2.00. 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 our fairs are live chats with artists. johann clooney he's 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 also told you can see the demand for exchange tell if you look at how telegram groups or compounds she used to post from to me it's all possible but there's probably a generational gap and innovation problem i'm appalled of all federal cannot exist it's probably. because of the type of the art fairs have not done so well their era

may be coming to an end sales on the 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 artists when monica bonk the chinese exhibitions were canceled or postponed she had more time to spend in her birdland studio. last year i've been throwing so much more because i was in the space here to space but in this space i will still to be alone which doesn't happen very much i was listening to music every louds 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 instill a. can sometimes feel entire rooms. around our

. farm but 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 were up shops are closed so in that. sansa i think that we still have the same sauce fear not 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 with the idea of confrontation a physical confrontation with the public right it's. it's it's impossible to do a time like hamburg based 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. coming to town on a pal account just look at 250 works strong in a row because i no longer know where i saw something not if i go to an often i'll know that i sold 2 works in a gallery and so return to this 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 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 retiled through come straight to your home and you have the right to send something back to him for weeks just wait for

it times are also changing in the renowned auction houses online auctions have become commonplace but the pandemic but is an auction without the collective excitement not a bit dull. so yes. i think that a personal network is more important to the seller than to the body 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 accept that justice could just. 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

campuses and keeps his spirits up in the. dark figures expressionless faces. compelling and mysterious imaginative colorful overwhelming scenes. this is the world of your own os. one of the leading german pagers of his generation. the school the main problem with painting is always the illusion harry spikes 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 own us blog at and his son are doing fine. and there's plenty to do at home.

and plenty to do in the studio one cat 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. it's much. 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 different along families of the initiators and big name collectors in asia they're very open and look in many different directions of the. park would normally yawn 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. because of its guardian or to 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 enter into a communication on a level that doesn't work verbal ie the visually in your gut 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 booth fenton gallantly humble work it's represented him ever

since by the time of his 1st solo exhibition in 2010 the art lovers packed to being influenced to the rafters his exhibitions 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 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 odd guy in new york or he said got kind of crazy for now i understand your picture is much better and it's because so much

existential and serious thinking has entered the discussion moment maybe the brakes have been pulled on all this pop culture at one time. if all goes well his exhibition will be opening and shanghai on july 23rd. join us beauregard has time until then for his pictures and other things as well. the kind of health crises 10 years ago a 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 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 6 task. i had annoyed there until i went there it was when i actually went there i was shocked. the fact of the city was empty 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 it was a movie you can't see the radiation that's why i was so scared what they're willing to call the war dog 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 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 functors of his family into deserted homes 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 hadn't 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 there are no inhabitants you know love the art work experience is the act of being in the place for a long time instead of the inhabitant. was ok if it did not follow the clear

the impetus 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 over the last decade . according to curator utaka he sound back then most artists had few means to express themselves cheeta trauma. but i 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 it and that is us the 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 posters asked the world to peaks to 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 of 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 lap and 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 the 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 going up to who know what their. course arguments could use that out and i think you know after that or any other dog at that door handle. that was. in the mail but i'll look it up on the end thought on a sunday dish door came like a clique for tolerance and let it go on enough that he. thought enough that that's not democracy or. for the next generation because that is us that will happen again unfortunately yeah we're on that anyway 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 natural disasters to part of ordinary life with the outbreak of the pandemic it's an experience that people all over the world have become for me the place. for the feeling that as long as we live on this planet there will probably be many more difficult situations in the future for you know you how we going to deal with these situations i think we are entering a period where we will have to face that close a little look at it through the put up decent of. an era of crisis and disaster an extraordinary time that might also change the way we think about and create. his own has gained popularity in the pandemic for years he's been put to mosques on

portraits by old monsters for 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.

one can visit hoover of the human it 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 a swigs for instance one stood for a great wealth. it's like a helmet satirizes the conventions of the past era while masking actual faces to

divert attention from them and initiatives which is on intimidated by removing this individuality the faces 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 it as does 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 have just sold for a record some protection exciting for the astounded artist and that historic moment

for the art market. that has struck the adult arc 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. what i mean even though i like yeah it's like 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 sound 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 sold that's the novelty. 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 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 additional work of art where 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 online gold rush a flying cat sold for $650000.00 for a tweet for several 1000000 crypto cats virtual basketball cards sold for millions. in your grime sold a digital art collection for $6500000.00. and now people has sent shock waves with the record price tag for every day. i think that there was no way they were a 4 and so bad but it but it was really influential so they have a huge huge our visual language are but 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. this am not only meant recognition for digital art but helped christie's reap millions in a win win situation. i think when there's money at stake 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. and of course the artist who created this was a quick go down in art history time. the buyer was a singapore based fund that had made a fortune with crypto currencies 90 percent of the bidders at christie's were unknown is a new crypt to meet divvying up the market people that will triple right now. that. i'm sure the market forms with immunity open i don't have

much knowledge of the art market and our enemy and our houses and just really 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 it's written to a technological medium is often used to judge the well to stick merit because you have to make distinction that just like not every painted canvas is automatically worthy of display in a museum. the race is on call 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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