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Lance De Los Reyes: “PAST is PRESENT is FUTURE”
Focusing on the connectivity of history through realism, 'PAST is PRESENT is FUTURE' powerfully articulates the disposition of energy in time. While the multi-medium artist has carved out his visual language, he has adjoined written pieces of work within this exhibition that further contribute to this preservation of time in history. Dr. Virginia-Lee Webb is a scholar, writer, and curator who has contributed Oceanic and African sculptors and masks from a significant private CT collection. This addition of historical artifacts provides greater context to the exhibition's narrative. 'PAST is PRESENT is FUTURE' explores the web of connections that make up the cosmos. Lance De Los Reyes states "I have learned that anything a human thinks about, says, or acts upon operates much like a boomerang. If you throw it into the universe, the energies of what people think about, say, and do may possibly manifest, becoming karmic boomerangs that return tenfold."
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The Death of Marat, Jaques-Louis David’s work from 1793, shows Jean Paul Marat, a radical journalist who played a major role in the French Revolution, lying murdered in his bathtub after having been stabbed to death by a Royalist sympathizer, Charlotte Corday. The painting is said to be the first modernist painting because of the way it took the stuff of politics as its material and did not transmute it.
NFT’s can be anything digital, whether it’s a drawing, music, digital landscapes, etc, most of the excitement is around the use of technology to sell digital art. The GAGA/MARAT collaboration created by Wilson features Gaga in the classic position, bleeding and draped over the side of the bathtub, having been in the midst of writing a letter. Her face is serene, blood pours out of her chest, as her voice is played repeatedly in the background, reciting a few cryptic phrases over and over.
Wilson has been forming this series of Video Portraits over the last 15 years, and this iteration, being sold individually as digital media, decontextualizes it from the series. His works will be seen in a new light. Only a select few of his Video Portraits will be offered as digital tokens. The videos are still and have no beginning, middle, nor end, but more so play on a dreamlike loop. Gaga is against a gradient light space, seemingly still but actually performing very slight movement and schemed out gesture and timing. Through theatrical imagery, Wilson explores the concept of authenticity and originality.
Rather than using the materials that have been used in art for hundreds and hundreds of years (brush, paint, canvas), Wilson uses new media and contemporary technology to create his photographic masterpieces, which recreate historical works.
The bidding will be denominated in US dollars, and each bidder will conduct their dollars to Ether cryptocurrency as they bid.
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New Zealand was fortunate enough to be COVID free for some time, making it possible for Tennent to travel around the country to capture these moments.
“I saw an opportunity to document such a healing time of my life. Growing up in Cambodia, my life was extremely different to how it is now. I went to boarding school for five years and then studied for three years after that, so my summers were usually spent mowing lawns or working at cafes. After graduating in November, I had enough time off to travel around the north island with my camera. I think this book, in its entirety, documents the gentle side of brotherhood. It documents the act of playing. To play is to be vulnerable. The book does not shy away from my own queerness with the presence of sexual undertones in the imagery. The book documents the long days, hot sand, ice blocks and of course, fish and chips. Through broken windscreens, flat tires, lockdowns and many rolls of film, I’m excited to introduce the world to this book,” Tennent says.
In collaboration with his best friend, Rob Tennent and Tyler Thomas have designed a beaded pearl necklace which will be available exclusively through Tennent’s website. Inspired by the colors in the book, the necklace harmoniously combines freshwater baroque pearls and Japanese glass beads.
Check out some of the images from his book as well as some BTS shots below.