Your weekly introduction to new artists on SuperRare.
HIROFUMI ITO
I am a Japanese Exquisite workers artist who loves pen drawing.
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We are excited to have on board Hirofumi Ito from Japan,
whose work for the Super Real Edition on SuperRare
is inspired by JOAN MIRÓ: “We are driven by
automatism to an unknown universe.
We do not care what happens to our bodies and minds,
because the path we are taking is constructed by automatism.
In some distant place, we will finally be connected
with the creatures and inanimate objects created
by the great Surrealists. At that very moment,
we ourselves will become
part of the “exquisite corpse.”
VITO DIFILIPPO
Multidisciplinary artist, 1988.
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D Series – crypto evolution. #1 – The D
series is the result of a deep research of
the artist conducted on techniques and colour.
The main topic of the research is that of a
universal applicability of colour on any
support, from canvas and cardboard to the
plain street. The success of the D series is also
confirmed by the bright success of works that
we can define properly urban, independent,
unconventional and absolutely unique,
mirror of the polyhedral poetic painting of Difilippo.
In the last pieces of the D series, currently in
processing and continuous development, the
studied chromatic stratification is combined
with an improvised composition,
as in jazz. Inspired by lichens.
ALBERTO OLIVEIRA
Alberto Oliveira is multiciplinary artist from Brazil who develops works from approximations between painting and photography field.
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The artwork Ether has been relevant to me
along these decades of production because
it is the genesis of my digital creation process.
It was conceived in 2004
in a hybrid process
between analog photography
and digital painting elements. My
fascination with transcendental ideas are
some recurring signs in the repertoire that
drive my production, so this art brings the
idea of the search for the sublime, a reconnection
with the divine represented here as an
boy in an etheric environment,
in an act of pranic breathing.
DRUE KATAOKA
Artist, technologist, activist Founder, Drue Kataoka Art Studios www.Drue.net.
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Water is Silence in Gold Octaves, pressed
in waves, Waves reforge a
breath — The circle The square
The storm Wait on
Time bending a A flutter-tongued
flat surface that would
be too easy as
reversal is memory unwound Behold A Vitruvian
Woman in gold, She leaves a multiverse of
mirrors and Manifold moons in her wake Her
shadow in the sky, she writes her path in sun
script Long live The Vitruvian
Women of this #GoldenAge
W.E.I.D.I
Award-winning New Media Artist / Designer / Researcher. Los Angeles Based / Born and raised in Suzhou 苏州, China
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Astro::CityJungle07 (2022) is part of Astro immersive
audiovisual series that unfolds the earth through
the lens of an intelligent being in outer space
to raise the question of ‘why explore space’.
As the alien rotates the lens to zoom in and out,
the journey of observation brings the multi-scale
discoveries of the city jungle on earth with
artistic imagination. This work is created using
an algorithmic approach combining data
visualization of cityscape and
machine learning generative visuals. – This artwork is part of SuperRare’s #TheGoldStandard
exhibition featuring artists of Asian American
Pacific Islander heritage in celebration of AAPI month.
ORESTE MERCADO
Visual Artist
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Beyond what we can see.
ANI
Internationally exhibiting research-based artist working at the intersection of art, science & technology. Always wondering, thinking through making.
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This is an original artwork depicting the
entirety of a level from “Shapes and Ladders:
Battles of Bias & Bureaucracy,”
a new media work first premiered and shown
at the 2021 Venice Biennale. It is the first time
any part of this game has been
released as a NFT. The image is 5883 × 930 full color illustration
of the server room in the game. Shapes
and Ladders is a video game that shows
how systemic racism and sexism can exist in
the workplace. Set in the metaphor of a career
ladder, players attempt to navigate through
an office building rife with challenges.
This work was designed to allow players
to cultivate empathy through a first person
simulation of structural inequality, with the
hope that these insights can inspire players
to spark change in real life. You can play
the full game on shapesandladders.com.
This artwork is part of SuperRare’s
#TheGoldStandard exhibition featuring
artists of Asian American Pacific
Islander heritage in celebration of AAPI month.
DOMINIKA CUDA
Polish ex-biathlonist turned into a sports photographer. A Women’s rights activist. A creator of three editions of the charity project called sports calendar focused on the athlete’s silhouettes depending on the sports types. A WWF volunteer and charity events creator. She has been featured in Vogue, New York Post, Women’s Health, Playboy, Ask Man, Men’s Health, Glamour and other prestigious media worldwide.
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HÏBERNATÏON Her power in hibernation,
wakens to an icy blue. Viper
moves in shivers, when melting
icy dew. The Hïbernatïon piece was inspired
by the mythological Minoan Snake Goddess,
who was one of the Minoan divinities associated
closely with the snake cult. She is called also
Household Goddess due to her attribute of
the snake, which is connected with the welfare
of the Minoan household and symbolises
the aspect of reign. It is also believed that
the priestesses entered a trance after being
bitten by snakes. The symbol and spirit of
the Minoan Snake Goddess taken from Greek
mythology have many different aspects.
The snake had a protective and beneficial
role on the shield of Athena; it represented
the chthonic power connected with the
Goddess of Earth; it was the attribute of
Asclepius, probably due to its knowledge
of the herb of rebirth, resurrection and
eternal youth, and generally, it was
the symbol of superhuman power of the god.
I. MALAKKAI
Graffiti master Malakkai creates expressive characters with a touch of melancholy and dumb humour. Leading artist at Exquisite Workers.
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We are excited to have on board Isaac Malakkai from
Spain, whose work for the Super Real Edition
is inspired by GIORGIO DE CHIRICO:
“The disturbing, passive, and still mushroom,
yet changing and challenging, on its old pedestal,
looking at the cloudy horizon, makes you reflect,
makes you nervous, never answers you,
look at it there, always pretending
to leave, the disturbing mushroom.”
YTJE VEENSTRA
Visual stories, elaborate and vibrant. Dreams and nightmares being fed into a caleidoscope vision, creating worlds of frightful wonder.
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The surface seems calm, composed.
Reassuring even. But underneath there’s a fire,
an essence, a knowledge of something more
sinister. Technological advancement
sometimes comes with a price, a trade-off.
Vague promises, shady dealings. Betterment
and downfall all rolled into one.
Who are they? Where are they going?
Perhaps, as the miles roll off in the
distance, some clarity will emerge.
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