Artsted Catalogue 2022
The “99 Future Blue-Chip artists” is a project that arose from the urgent need within the contemporary art market to find ways to support a new generation of up-and-coming artists, while bringing their vision to a wider audience of collectors and art lovers. For its first-ever edition, “99 Future Blue-Chip Artists” took the form of a printed and curated hardcover edition, featuring artists from all around the globe working across a plethora of media, addressing unique and challenging concepts.
The “99 Future Blue-Chip artists” is a project that arose from the urgent need within the contemporary art market to find ways to support a new generation of up-and-coming artists, while bringing their vision to a wider audience of collectors and art lovers. For its first-ever edition, “99 Future Blue-Chip Artists” took the form of a printed and curated hardcover edition, featuring artists from all around the globe working across a plethora of media, addressing unique and challenging concepts.
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99 Future Blue-Chip Artists.
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DANIEL FREAKER
Daniel Freaker lives and works in Portsmouth, U.K. While
studying at University he explored the painterly qualities
of print, video, film and photography. He now concentrates
on painting, where it is possible to see the influences
of previous interests on the paintings in terms of cinematic
composition and subjects. Freaker’s work is often
reminiscent of film scenes and fragments of a broader
narrative, which the viewer can interpret.
His work is informed by contemporaries such as Doig,
Tuymans, and Armitage, sitting between the abstract
and figurative spaces where the way paint media is
applied is equally as important as the image itself. The
subjects are mostly individuals, couples, or groups of
people in order to provoke thoughts of relationships or
isolation. The scenes remind the audience of something
they can empathize with and the techniques and colour
palette bring feelings of sentiment and longing with
a contemporary twist of warmth and radiance. While
many elements are true to reality and show traditional
processes, some distortions, exaggerate the emotional
significance of the moment: connection, loss, vulnerability,
or loneliness. This juxtaposition between vibrance
and darkness is what makes it truly memorable.
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