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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FARHAD NIKFAM
Farhad Nikfam (b. 1987) is an Iranian-Zzeri painter living
& working in Baku, Azerbaijan. Raised at the crossroads
of post-soviet, south caucasian, and Persian cultures
yet influenced by a romanticized image of the Western
world of the 90s and 2000s, the artist discovers and
explores new worlds, where all of these coexist.
Farhad Nikfam’s paintings depict the space where the
artist managed to unite the objective reality and his
fantasies - whether it be his own design of a beer bottle
he would prefer to drink from or of an armchair he would
like to sit on, or fanciful scenarios where the only portal
for a mermaid to escape an apartment building could
be a toilet bowl. Inspired by the freedom of primitivism,
as well as by industrial design (his first field of studies),
Farhad creates new forms of daily life - angular and
naive at the same time. The eye-catching sharpness
and directness of the lines are combined with the straightforward
childlike perception, love for bright colors,
and non-ergonomic technology objects from the 90s.
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