Digital Art Fair Xperience Hong Kong 2022

This work is featured in the Pioneer Zone of Digital Art Fair Xperience Hong Kong 2022.

Artwork Title: Letterbox
Artist: Sharmaine Kwan
Edition: 1/1
Estimated Price:  1-2 ETH

The nostalgic Chinese letterboxes commonly found in old Hong Kong buildings serves as the metaphor to receive love, connection and good fortune. This is further conveyed through the similarity of the letterbox design to a money box and the symbol of a pair of coins on the surface along with a heart shaped lock. Nowadays, there are a lot less letters sent compared to the amount of online messages and emails. The work explores the means and meanings of communication and connection in today"s world.

Letterbox

This work is featured in the Pioneer Zone of Digital Art Fair Xperience Hong Kong 2022.

Artwork Title: Voyage
Artist: Sharmaine Kwan
Edition: 1/1
Price:  1-2 ETH

Portraying the voyage of the little sparrow commonly found around the neighborhoods in Hong Kong, the work adds a playful twist with a market lamp shaped open bird cage and swing for it to perch on as it freely explores the city that revolves around it.

Voyage

This work is featured in the Pioneer Zone of Digital Art Fair Xperience Hong Kong 2022.

Artwork Title: HK Neon #1
Artist: Sharmaine Kwan
Edition: 1/1
Price:  1-2 ETH

The HK Neon series features the iconic neon signs and streetscapes in Hong Kong, particularly the neon signs that have been removed. The series bring forth a nostalgic yet contemporary outlook with the reinterpretation of the traditional aesthetic.

HK Neon #1

This work is featured in the Pioneer Zone of Digital Art Fair Xperience Hong Kong 2022.

Artwork Title: HK Neon #2
Artist: Sharmaine Kwan
Edition: 1/1
Price:  1-2 ETH

The HK Neon series features the iconic neon signs and streetscapes in Hong Kong, particularly the neon signs that have been removed. The series bring forth a nostalgic yet contemporary outlook with the reinterpretation of the traditional aesthetic.

HK Neon #2

This work is featured in the Pioneer Zone of Digital Art Fair Xperience Hong Kong 2022.

Artwork Title: HK Neon #3
Artist: Sharmaine Kwan
Edition: 1/1
Price:  1-2 ETH

The HK Neon series features the iconic neon signs and streetscapes in Hong Kong, particularly the neon signs that have been removed. The series bring forth a nostalgic yet contemporary outlook with the reinterpretation of the traditional aesthetic.

HK Neon #3

This work is featured in the Pioneer Zone of Digital Art Fair Xperience Hong Kong 2022.

Artwork Title: HK Neon #4
Artist: Sharmaine Kwan
Edition: 1/1
Price:  1-2 ETH

The HK Neon series features the iconic neon signs and streetscapes in Hong Kong, particularly the neon signs that have been removed. The series bring forth a nostalgic yet contemporary outlook with the reinterpretation of the traditional aesthetic.

HK Neon #4

This work is featured in the Pioneer Zone of Digital Art Fair Xperience Hong Kong 2022.

Artwork Title: Emanate
Artist: Sharmaine Kwan
Edition: 1/1
Price:  1-2 ETH

Aside from being a source of light and a form of decoration, the lantern that is often present in many festivals and celebrations, is generally used to signify the wish for a better and brighter future whether in the form of prosperity, happiness or good fortune. The particles of light emanating from the heart symbolize spreading and sharing positivity and goodness to all.

Emanate

This work is featured in the Pioneer Zone of Digital Art Fair Xperience Hong Kong 2022.

Artwork Title: A Whole New World
Artist: Sharmaine Kwan
Edition: 1/1
Price:  1-2 ETH

A magic ride to a whole new world. The work symbolizes a journey to beyond fusing contemporary and futuristic elements. Flying under the neon lights, it invites you to travel through the energy of the city.

A Whole New World

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Artwork Title: The Assassination of Owlman By The Coward Caladrius.
Artist: Kook Kyeong Taek
Series: LIFE ON GLIESE
Edition: 1/1
Price:  3 ETH
Medium: 3D Rendering (NFT), Pigment print. W150cm. H102cm.(Physical)

A crime scene involves two creatures, Owlman and Caladrius, that jealous Caladrius fears Owlman, but has nothing but having to kill him to survive a trial to be held tomorrow. On the night of the murder, he was so insecure and needed to find a way to relieve the guilt, so he burnt the letter from the mysterious warning about the crime.

There is a wish that these strange beings would live in the event of human history, and feel, eat, and die like the way we do. We project our lives to them and wish their lives to be projected to ours. They had to take all responsibilities for the unfulfilled theory and our unaccounted story. They are encapsulated in this crime scene by the social obligations of humans.

The Assassination of Owlman By The Coward Caladrius.

This work is featured in the Pioneer Zone of Digital Art Fair Xperience Hong Kong 2022.

Artwork Title: Deja vu killed Aethon, but Itsumade denied it.
Artist: Kook Kyeong Taek
Series: LIFE ON GLIESE
Edition: 1/1
Price:  3 ETH
Medium: 3D Rendering (NFT), Pigment print. W150cm. H102cm.(Physical)

Itsumade has a child who had a part of the organs mutated, and dreamed last night that his child was burned to evaporate. He wishes this event would be part of a religious ritual and his ghost stay inside its mutated organs. Today, he witnesses his child looking at himself burning and furious at the sorcerer who presided over a religious ceremony. But not long after, he realizes that paradox is the one that makes him watch himself burning, and not carrying a ghost inside the organs. The tumor is growing, and Itsumade can not see that the paradox is eating away a ghost. The story can be told with paradox and fantasy, but the religious dogma uses it to tell the wrong story. We have seen a lot of historical events where this dogma butchered some families and they never admit it happened. We see through a mirror and find out that what we dreamed of could be the one we dream of not happening to us.

Deja vu killed Aethon, but Itsumade denied it.

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Artwork Title: Who shot the arrogant Aethon.
Artist: Kook Kyeong Taek
Series: LIFE ON GLIESE
Edition: 1/1
Price:  3 ETH
Medium: 3D Rendering (NFT), Pigment print. W150cm. H102cm.(Physical)

Two crew members are in custody for a mutiny that was caused by an unscheduled change of voyage. They think the mutiny has failed because of the lack of sympathizers and an inside traitor. It was later known that the real cause of mutiny was the conflict over one book between Aethon and Nyctimene, and it was not settled and getting worse.

The real story behind events can be easily manipulated and a totally different story can be made from the same event. The true history of humans is built from events analyzed by someone who is eager to complete their identities and strengthen the community they belong to. We live in the same events, but to be told that we lived a different history.

Who shot the arrogant Aethon.

This work is featured in the Pioneer Zone of Digital Art Fair Xperience Hong Kong 2022.

Artwork Title: We need guilt and shame.
Artist: Kook Kyeong Taek
Series: LIFE ON GLIESE
Edition: 1/1
Price:  3 ETH
Medium: 3D Rendering (NFT), Pigment print. W120cm. H170cm. (Physical)

Farther takes his family to the spot in a refugee camp where the assassination was planned, and had all members killed. Later, his ghost told I feel when we get to heaven we wont worry about these earthly things. Theyll either have forgiven me or wont realize what happened. I finally decided the only way to save them from a predetermined death was to kill them. But He could not see their ghosts survived from it and just standing next to him.

We need guilt and shame.

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Artwork Title: The Tedious Treaty of Family.
Artist: Kook Kyeong Taek
Series: LIFE ON GLIESE
Edition: 1/1
Price:  3 ETH
Medium: 3D Rendering (NFT), Pigment print. W120cm. H170cm. (Physical)

Getting towards the end of the long-running dispute between the two families, and Alkonost proposed a peace treaty to another family. On the day to be supposed to sign the treaty, the other family does not show up, and they were attacked and their parents were killed. It would be right to say that it is a reasonable reaction to the hidden code of the treaty rather than betrayal. The details of the treaty are not known, but  It is said that it was because one word was interpreted as different nuances of two families using different languages.

The Tedious Treaty of Family.

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Artwork Title: 11.11.1943.
Artist: Kook Kyeong Taek
Series: LIFE ON GLIESE
Edition: 1/1
Price:  3 ETH
Medium: 3D Rendering (NFT), Pigment print. W120cm. H170cm. (Physical)

The family hasnt seen each other for a while because of the war. One day, they reunited at the camp with their own purposes which seems very impure. Those purposes caused a sudden attack on the family, and it killed their bodies but their ghost could escape from it, and for those moments, memories and guilty had evaporated so that ghosts would live a long life without remorse.

11.11.1943.

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Artwork Title: The spotless affair.
Artist: Kook Kyeong Taek
Series: LIFE ON GLIESE
Edition: 1/1
Price:  3 ETH
Medium: 3D Rendering (NFT), Pigment print. W120cm. H170cm. (Physical)

They have an ancient burial practice whereby a mutant child is left to die in an open tomb. There was a backlash from a certain group that tabooed it, and it is getting fiercer. This family had been through a hard time with taking care of the mutation of their child, and decided to let him go. When they were attacked, they just realized that they had an also old mutated organ underneath their brain, and it was not the group who attacked them, but karma. A child foretold, inspired by that karma, that death would come upon their parents, not himself.

The spotless affair.

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Artwork Title: The Excised Brain from Aethon, Acanthis, Alkonost, Caladrius, Hippogriff, Owlman, Nyctimene, Itsumade, Alkyonides. 
Artist: Kook Kyeong Taek
Series: LIFE ON GLIESE
Edition: 1/1
Price:  3 ETH
Medium: 3D rendering. Video. 16sec, W3840px. H3840px.

These organs function biologically as a human brain, displayed and observed to find out how they think, what they memorize, and how emotions arise. But, it is limited to what has been input and what has been set as a goal. No part for ethical judgment, hesitation, anxiety, and when the negative data is input, it immediately turns backward and transforms to the neutral output. The concept of memory does not seem to exist, but memory is symmetrically shaped and duplicated, and analyzed in constant comparison with the relative position of the brain patterns.
It does not represent the character and the quality of this creature, and only works
as a driver with a filtration system. But we can not ignore the codes built from the brain patterns and movements. It would be their own language system that requires the new theory of decoding and interpretation.

The Excised Brain from Aethon, Acanthis, Alkonost, Caladrius, Hippogriff, Owlman, Nyctimene, Itsumade, Alkyonides. 

This work is featured in the Prestige Zone of Digital Art Fair Xperience Hong Kong 2022.

Artwork Title: Amazon: Liquid Serpent 2
Artist: Nicolas Janowski
Year created: 2014-2022
Price of artwork: $1300 USD

The Amazon is neither man nor animal. She is natures hybrid. Mirrors of mans contradiction, of a world to which she belongs and yet remains distant. The Amazon bears forth over-stimulated cities pervaded by a savage force, which exist simultaneously as survival mechanisms. Even disintegrated indigenous groups in the jungle, separated by language but intimately linked by memory, share the same myths and religious convictions.

Artwork Courtesy of Nicolas Janowski and ALMANAQUE Gallery Mexico: almanaquefotografica.com

Amazon: Liquid Serpent 2

Artwork Title: [ASCENSION]
Artist: Alexandre Vicente (AMALGAMA atelier)
Year created: 2021
Price: 1 ETH


"The Tower" series Part 2 of 3
"We arrive at the middle levels.
We find a rational wood structure, almost as suspended, hanging.
These volumes house people who live their daily lives in symbioses with the natural surrounding, a natural surrounding that is slowly absorbing the structure that supports it. Some might even think that the structure was done to accommodate it, but the opposite couldn"t be far from true.
As we escalate the tower, nature overcomes and blends with human life. As humans live in their artificial structures, the rings at the center provide nurture.

The Tower is a monument which celebrates nature and humanity and how they can and should be together."

Alexandre Vicente, 2021
3779x8000, 3D modeling, collage

