In Focus: This Week’s Highlights from Valuart

GM, the Valuart Newsletter is out! ☕

This week's issue features our recent participation at the Secret Hangar Gala and the latest FW LOG's publications.

Valuart x Secret Hangar 2023

On Saturday, September 23rd, Valuart took part in the Secret Hangar Gala by Air-Dynamic at the Lugano Airport, a unique event combining charity, innovation, and art, in support of the UNHCR initiatives.

A pivotal moment of the gala was the powerful presence of Maya Ghazal who unraveled her story as the very first Syrian refugee woman to become a pilot through UNHCR’s program —a living testament to resilience, inclusion, and the dismantling of societal stereotypes.

As part of our involvement, we presented a curated installation featuring the physical works of Jesse Draxler, Skygolpe, Nazareno Biondo.

Highlights From This Week's Fakewhale LOG Reads

Following are this week’s reads from the Fakewhale Log you should not miss.

◼️ FW Rooms Publications

- “Strong Winds Ahead” by Jesse Draxler

Jesse Draxler brings his photographic eye to the ‘Strong Winds Ahead’ exhibit at François Ghebaly Gallery in downtown Los Angeles, which ran from July 29 to September 9, 2023. The exhibit, organized by curator Lekha Jandhyala, featured a wide range of artists including Carlos Agredano, Monira Al Qadiri, Farah Al Qasimi, and many more.

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- “An Eye for an Eye and Your Other Eye and the Rest of Your Family” by diewiththemostlikes

An Eye for an Eye and Your Other Eye and the Rest of Your Family was written and self-published under an alter ego known as Mark Baldacci, what transpired next was immediate disregard, only selling a dozen or so copies to those depraved enough to take the plunge.Over the last year, more have read, more have understood why it had to be written.

I’ll be sharing chapters here over the next few months until the whole book is here. Because it’s one of my favorite things I’ve ever written, and anyone who wants to should be able to experience it.

Read “A God Fearing Man”, the first chapter release of An Eye for an Eye and Your Other Eye and the Rest of Your Family

- “Web3 vs. Web2” by Marco Grendel

Cryptoart is thus perceived as unattainable to all those who cannot afford to purchase the works, with the direct consequence that communities linked to cryptoartists are generally made up of NFT owners only.

Can crypto art use Quadratic Funding (or Voting) to reach its potential admirers and probe their artistic preferences?

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◼️ FW Insights: An Exclusive Interview

- Adam Basanta in Conversation with Fakewhale

There is something fascinating about the arch form. It is of course most famous for its perfection during the Roman era, but basic arch structures date back at least a few thousand years earlier to Mesopotamia. I am moved by the mathematical beauty of it, the way an arch holds itself up, unmortared and unsupported, through a balance of distributed forces. It is so simple yet improbable. The genius of the arch is based on a deep understanding of material and the world which shapes it, rather than forcing form on to matter.

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◼️FW Release: Anti-Crash Series

Starting yesterday, Scerbo dropped the Anti-Crash series — A Verse release curated by Fakewhale, consisting of 10 works, subject to a 24-hour auction with rebate closing today at 5 pm BST.

Just as a crash interrupts the seamless flow of a program, the series touches on the fleeting moments in our own existence. This temporality is an ever-present undercurrent, where each piece feels like a captured breath—here in one instant and gone the next.

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