Valuart Solos: A Season 1 Retrospective

GM, the Valuart Newsletter is out! ☕

As the debut Valuart Solos season comes to a close, this week's issue is dedicated to highlighting all the artists and their IRL exhibitions, as well as giving a sneak peek at Fakewhale’s latest endeavor — the FW LOG.

Billelis

Billelis, based in Edinburgh, is a 3D Illustrator and Digital Artist renowned for his distinctive focus on dark visuals and decorative art. His style, characterized by its dark elegance and romantic fusion, boasts an unmissable keen eye for intricate detail and bold contrasting colors, pushing the boundaries into the realm of Hyper-Realism.

diewiththemostlikes

diewiththemostlikes brings beef to the next level, transforming it into art, with every piece being a strong, unfiltered representation of our daily lives.

In his words, “create nothing. consume everything. legalize ground beef”

Clapis

Federico Clapis is a contemporary Italian artist whose works represent the materialization of his experiences, and medium of introspection to share with his followers — Technology, a recurring theme in his most famous artworks, is a metaphor for the contemporary to explore our timeless emotional states.

Sutu

Stuart Campbell aka Sutu is an Australian digital artist, XR specialist & storyteller who combines art with technology to tell stories in new, immersive ways. The subjects of his pieces — vibrant, animated cyber-futuristic characters — reflect the spectators' very own personalities as they step into, coexist and evolve in this new dimension.

Jesse Draxler

Jesse Draxler is a cult-status creative whose influence has been felt far and wide throughout the digital arts space since the early days of Tumblr. As a singular and innovative creator Draxler has threaded his brand of liminal, dimensionally fractured, stoic apparitions & ghost-drenched environments through the pillars of culture working thoroughly with the fashion and music industries as well regular illustrative contributions to major publications.

Jan Hakon Erichsen

Jan Hakon Erichsen is an artist that works with performance for video, which he shares daily across social media exploring the things we surround ourselves with, often through destroying everyday objects in excessive ways or using them in an unorthodox manner.

The performances are sculpturally based, with crude destruction machines as a recurring theme — Erichsen makes everything from very simple devices to complex contraptions that are all designed to destroy everyday objects of low monetary value.

Achille Lauro

Achille Lauro is an eclectic artist who is setting the standard for endless innovation and creativity in the entertainment and fashion industries. Through his creations, he drives us on a journey through the multiverse where art, design, and fashion collide to inspire new cross-reality ideas, collaborations, and limitless creativity.

Laurence Fuller

A versatile actor, Laurence Fuller is also an award-winning writer, poet and producer with a Neo-Romantic style whose first film, “Possession(s)”, got produced by ABC Australia, and whose most recent spec screenplay, “MODERN ART”, received multiple awards.

Laurence trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, to then star in the West End production of “Madness In Valencia” at Trafalgar Studios and take on his acting career from there, working with notable actors and earning praise from critics and film festivals over the years. In the latest HBO Max series MINX, Laurence can be seen interpreting the role of the iconic British painter David Hockney.

Jenni Pasanen

Creating in the new medium and the era of art, where creativity of machine & human unite as one: Jenni Pasanen is an artist who combines masterful digital painting with AI within captivating, dream-like works of art through her unique technique that fuses both tools equally by layering, twisting, and painting everything as one.

With her artistic roots stretching back to her earliest memories, Jenni's repertoire has spanned a multitude of mediums, from acrylic painting and clay sculpting to animation and coding.

Max Papeschi

Max Papeschi is an Italian contemporary artist who creates satirical and controversial works questioning the values of contemporary society.

With a background in theater and film direction, Papeschi made his artistic debut in 2008, since then hosting more than 60 solo and group exhibitions around the world and experimenting with novel media and technologies.

Bárbara Bezina

Bárbara Bezina, a self-taught artist from Argentina, explores and experiments with different techniques, tools, and materials, fuelled by her inner world and constant questions that allow her to rediscover life through art in a never-ending cycle of discovery and enrichment — Nature, art, self-knowledge, reading and research are her main interests.

Kazuhiro Aihara

Kazuhiro Aihara is an acclaimed Japanese digital artist who weaves self-exploration and the power of presence into his innovative digital textures, brushstrokes, and color palettes.

From his journey as a professional snowboarder to his successful career as a graphic designer and artist, Kazuhiro’s unique artistic vision encompasses abstract portrait paintings, liquid pixel animations and pioneering gifs that push the boundaries of meme-ism.

Ruben Fro

Ruben Fro is a talented visual effect artist and director based in Tokyo, known for his expertise in volumetric captures, point clouds, and large particle-based dynamic environments.

From his early days in Florence to his captivating real-time art installations and award-winning video art, Ruben has been pushing the boundaries of immersive creativity, and is currently Head of Cinematics at JADU AR.

Tim Smith aka BITVARGEN

Tim Smith, aka BITVARGEN, is a visionary artist and music manager whose work spans the realms of music, art, and the ever-evolving crypto-art scene. With his unique approach, Bitvargen's creations feel like the future.

Skygolpe

Skygolpe is one of the leading artists in the field of digital art, and in the NFT space.

Skygolpe’s emblematic and faceless portraits are the result of a unique fusion between layers of physical painting combined with digital elements. His work emerges from the intersection of the digital landscape, conceptually intertwining virtual elements with material derived from installations and painting, to create with his practice a continuous, unified and indissoluble research. This synthesis offers deep insights into the ramifications of technology on society, opening new ways to interpret, use, and contemplate art through blockchain technology.

Gary Edward Blum

Gary Edward Blum is a San Francisco-based artist who explores duality through realism and minimalist abstraction, where narratives about pictorial reality emphasize the coexistence of opposites.

The grandson of Italian and Swiss immigrants, his work combines painting and photography infused with narratives of exploration, independence, and a personal journey he undertook to India in 2000.

Etiene Crauss

Etiene Crauss, a Brazilian artist, navigates the labyrinth of human emotions in his compelling artwork, engaging with a wide array of themes, from passion and rage, to desolation and loneliness.

Etiene's singular style, merging his graphic design origins with an exceptional ability to encapsulate complex emotions, has drawn both widespread recognition and a devoted following. Driven by his ceaseless creativity, Etiene continues to craft new pieces with a level of style and composition that he is proud to claim people can look at and say: 'that's Etiene'.

Chepertom

A glitch artist born in Brest, France, Thomas Collet aka Chepertom challenges aesthetics, taking viewers on a trip through the complex, often unobserved processes involved in the creation of digital imagery.

His work is grounded in his experiences and explorations across varied media - from drawing and engraving to installations and video. In a world where perfection is relentlessly sought after, Chepertom challenges conventional perceptions, finding beauty in error, and perfection in the imperfections of the digital realm.

Kitasavi

Currently based in Istanbul, Turkey, Kitasavi is an artist merging 3D graphics, sculpture, painting, and photography.

With a foundation in graphic design, Kitasavi's art practice seeks to dismantle everyday life experiences and reconstruct them into a novel, unseen reality where chaos reigns supreme as the only order. His artistic approach is characterized by organic forms, whimsical characters, palpable textures, vibrant colors, hidden easter eggs, humor, and references to culinary and travel experiences. Located somewhere between abstract and figurative, real and ethereal, chaotic at first glance, his works are thoroughly structured and balanced.

Paul Sears and Oscar Accorsi

Paul Sears and Oscar Accorsi are an artistic duo who are pushing the boundaries of art and language to showcase the beauty and complexity of human communication.

At the core of their collaboration, writing is elevated to a visual art form, where abstract lines morph into letters and phrases, resonating with viewers and instigating profound self-reflection — throughout every piece, the artists explore identity, celebrating the limits of mankind in a world filled with alternative realities and artificial intelligence.

Fakewhale presents FW LOG: A New Curated Media Platform

A new curated media platform has just been launched by Fakewhale, serving as a vital resource for art enthusiasts and the curious alike to learn about the ever-evolving landscape of digital art — The FW LOG.

Click below to start exploring!

We'll be exploring the FW LOG in depth along with next week's issue, so stay tuned!

Izzy