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Future Nostalgia with Matty Furious
The Artist: Matty Furious Matty Furious joined SuperRare in November 2018, one of the first 50 artists to mint there. Matty’s art heralds the tokenized echoes of the early electronic device and Internet era. The blue screen background of ‘Shakespeare CHAN’ or the playing card computer poker hands of ‘Gamble Your Life Away’ take us […]
Absurd Suburbia with Ben Zank
Unorthodoxy thrives in the suburban streets turned theatrestage by Ben Zank. The suited and booted protagonist is found contorted in and around the surfaces of suburban lives that 99.999% of the rest of the residents have never considered, let alone attempted. That is what makes Zank’s work sizzle. We are forced to ask ourselves ‘what is happening here?’ Tans, yellows, oranges and pine green are a recurring palette across many of Zank’s work.
Neon Divinity with Dangiuz
Romantic Cyberpunk artist Danguiz, hurtles us into the future to ponder what it might mean to exist in the 22nd Century and beyond. With Blade Runner four decades in an our rear vision mirror, many dystopian aspects of its forecast have already come to pass. Yet there is hope within the scenes Dangiuz creates. The cat reminds us that we still care for the animals, despite an inundation of super-sized pixel displays.