AUGUST 22ND, 2022
5 Artists From the UNDRGRND Collection
UNDRGRND DIGS is a periodical feature showcasing artists that the UNDRGRND curators dig. We sift through the social media and NFT platforms to find the best artists waiting to be discovered. UNDRGRND believes in the artists we feature and we will purchase NFTs from each artist featured. Purchases will be airdropped to reward UNDRGRND community members.
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Hallucan
Mother of Dragons
The Warrior Queen: Fu Hao
Atritone
Great of Praises
Violence Doesn’t Exist
Finding Lost Treasures
Nobody likes to read anymore (yes, irony). This is why you have to attach colorful pretty images next to words to trick people into reading something. We’ve been tricking readers for almost a year to read about artists we feature by doing this very thing. Hallucan seems to understand this dynamic as well. These bright, pop-art illustrations are put next to insightful descriptions. His work Finding Lost Treasures on the surface looks like a cartoon of a pirate, but Hallucan writes in the description, “There are three important things to teach. simplicity, patience, and compassion. All of them spring from good seeds and come from a pure and peaceful mind. In order to live the story of life, each individual needs these three lights. Like a pirate who really understands the cruel conditions of the ocean, the condition of the crew, and the condition of the ship itself when looking for lost treasures.” Look just beyond the image and you’ll find an artist in Hallucan searching for deeper meaning.
Novrizky Norman
CYAN-BLUE ON COLLAGE
THE MIRRORED WORLD
HAVE A SMOKE
ON THE EDGE OF THE FRAME
FIREWORKS IN THE BORDER
BOTANICAL CULTURE
Beating the proverbial dead horse: motion art becoming fine art is one of the larger contributions to the art world that NFTs have brought. Novrizky Norman is one of these artists pairing collage art with motion to create something mesmerizing. These almost Victorian-fantasy landscapes come from the same family tree as the music videos from Smashing Pumpkins, Tonight, Tonight and Float On by Modest Mouse. Indie-alt bands have used collage art like Novrizky Norman for decades as album covers. Perhaps, since the music scene is still under-developed or under-appreciated, Novrizky can begin a new era of album cover art for future bands that have yet to see the potential and freedom NFTs have brought to art.
Mazamizart
Actions
Particles
Riggz & Hawk
Mutant Blob Attack
Mugshot
The indie music scene is beginning to grow with Hip-Hop on Tezos. One of the artists collaborating to create the artwork for this new age of music is Mazamizart. His animation style works perfectly with the underground (this was really hard to spell properly) music scene with a mixture of grit and fun. Outside of this Mazamizart has created a world of vibrant characters in the Jo and Layla Super Villain Series featuring Jo The Catfish and Layla a duo framed for a crime they didn’t commit while on the run from detectives Riggz & Hawk. Mazamizart’s style is comparible to UNDRGRND Artist Metadreams which led to the two collaborating on The Clash Of Epochs.
Paulus Hutabarat
Memory
Rhythm
gastric ulcer
snore
Griffin
Bat
Paulus Hutabarat (or Powl) could work alongside the dreamy children’s illustrations of Brandon the Mighty and the two would create a magical world that would enthrall most adults. Powl’s artistic ability would fit perfectly on any of the teams of talented illustrators that became popular from movies like Into the Spiderverse, Arcane, or The Mitchells vs. the Machines. Beyond the beautiful illustrations of animals lies something deeper in Powl’s work. Concerns over sleep and stomach ulcers from stress seem to drive Powl’s fascination with the child-like wonder that many of us strive to retain before the world took hold of us. All of which makes the work that much more relatable and memorable.
Kim Köster
Are there good robbers?
Where does it end?
What is actually funny?
positive negative #15
positive negative #13
Kim Köster's combination of photography and mural-street art creates a unique art form solely his own and adds new meaning to "mixed-media". Typically a photographer will compose a photo of another artist’s graffiti while Kim has spent years traveling the world honing his craft. Kim’s colorful, previously unseen mythical creatures bring new life to run-down and abandoned spaces. The juxtaposition of color and bleak surroundings, childlike creatures on old decrepit walls, matches the same contrast of fine art with a more urban style. This contrast in worlds is evident throughout his work but most prevalent in his series positive negative where the murals were painted in opposing colors only to show their true form when the colors are inverted. In Kim Köster’s world, duality and opposites reign in harmony.
Each UNDRGRND DIGS will feature artists our curators have purchased for the UNDRGRND Collection. UNDRGRND will airdrop pieces from our collection to community members via giveaways.
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