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💉art addict 👷🏽‍♀️building @verse_works & @solos_gallery 🐝ex @tate

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To be honest, this curatorial panel started from a selfish place. I absolutely love discussing the state of culture and digital art with people I respect so deeply. It is complex, and we are still learning, so it feels essential to keep the dialogue open. It is our absolute
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📣 INTRODUCING: OUR GALLERY CURATION BOARD 📣 The digital art space is evolving. And so is our platform. Verse started as a gallery. It is now our mission to empower galleries and help them thrive. The thread below details why, how, and who. ↓
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▫️A snippet of Mark Rothko last public speech upon receiving an honorary award at Yale University. He took his life the year after in 1970. "When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing; no galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet it was a golden time, for then
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✨Six Letters ✨by Andreas Gysin & Sidi Vanetti This mesmerizing piece showcases over 3000 of the most commonly used words in the English language, seamlessly transitioning into each other. To achieve smooth transitions with minimal effort, the artists employed an approximation
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Oof, what an emotional day! Exactly two years ago, we launched Verse. It was an exciting and stressful experience. As someone new to the web3 space, it felt like being thrown into a deep pool without knowing how to swim. It was important to me to launch the program with a
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29 days
Hypnotizing to say the least
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2 years
And then… there is THIS beauty 🥹🙏🏽✨❣️(artist is missed immensely)
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3 months
At a certain point in my career, museums and galleries began to feel like a very small, insular world. It seemed that curators were working within a closed loop, always showcasing the same select group of artists and galleries. You’d see the same people repeatedly. It became
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2 years
Honestly makes my heart skip a beat ✨
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I might start crying 🥲
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It’ all getting very real over here… @verse_works has been busy cooking 👩‍🍳👨‍🍳👩‍🍳👩‍🍳 and it’s looking delicious 🤤
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@verse_leyla
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It about to kick off 💣
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✨Installing IRL London - opens tomorrow 🔥🇬🇧
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This is how we do it … 🎶
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It’s hard to believe that a digital artist so native to the medium like @zachlieberman started off as a painter and printmaker. He really didn’t work with computers at all to start with… And what I love most about @zachlieberman is that he continues to be a TRUE experimenter.
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Somebody stop me …
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A computer for women … absolute brilliance 😂 #1980s
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2 years
I mean I want to stop posting but it’s so hard not to share these 🎯
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2 years
There is nothing like seeing them in person. Total beauties 🍧🍡🍮🍦🍭
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2 years
Decided not to make it to Paris. While I was so looking forward to seeing everyone, I realise it’s important to take a breather and stop running around 🤪! Morning dog walks at low tide and listening to old school hip hop are the ultimate reset for me ✨😉
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5 months
Public art is a powerful phenomenon. When done at its best, it takes you out of your crazy daily routine and reminds you that there is magic to be found even in mundane daily life. Stepping out of the tube, on one of London's busiest streets (apparently with over a million
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2 years
I spent much of my life in the mountains of Iran. My father insisted on us leaving the city, he wanted us to connect to our roots & not get caught up in city life. He’d say the best way to know yourself is by discovering nature. These pieces definitely bring me back to them…
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The other genius to his art lies in his character: he’s playful,mysterious & wise. Through his art, he transports you to strange and beautiful worlds, where contrasting elements coexist in harmony, much like a wizard's spell. Truly an honor 🙏🏽✨
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1 year
💚 I knew it’d be a good day 💚
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1 year
I am thrilled to announce that the code for @JanRobertLeegte work ‘Bottons’ is finally up and ready for exploration 💜
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1 year
Reaching for the sun ☀️ with @Cory_Haber
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@verse_leyla
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10 months
❤️ finally finished ❤️ thank you to all the artists and galleries who have made this a total dream ❤️
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8 months
Oh my, oh my 🤍 @kGolid @verse_works
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6 months
Nam June Paik, TV Cello (1971) Performed by cellist Charlotte Moorman
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1 year
I was lucky enough to see @JanRobertLeegte incredible exhibition NO CONTENT: CONTEMPLATIONS ON SOFTWARE in the flesh. You’ll quickly recognize his jpeg pieces displayed beautifully in this exquisite 17th century gallery space. Frankly it was all quite dreamy. What you can’t see
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🤍A year in the making, we couldn't be prouder of the upcoming Verse Solos exhibition "Intimacy" which includes two pivotal bodies of work within William's practice. It feels like William is just beginning his exploration of what creativity means and how it manifests. His
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🔉SOUND UP🔉 (from the studio) a detail of Andreas Gysin & Sidi Vanetti’s work ‘Digits’ to be shown in their upcoming Verse Solos exhibition in London @verse_works @andreasgysin
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1 year
I don’t think Andreas & Sidi have slept for the past 3 weeks! Opening in 5 hours and still installing 🙌🏽🤍😉 #installationday
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4 months
Back home at the office 🐶💻 Basel you have been a shot of adrenaline. Just what this art addict needed 💉
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Vacationing with @rainisto 🙌🏽
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Absolutely stunning display of Sarah Sze at Victoria Miro gallery 🤍 That’s how you do it - superb 👌🏽
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because I can't get enough of it ... sound up 🔊
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✨1/8 VERSE SOLOS featuring Andreas Gysin & Sidi Vanetti this Tuesday !✨ Permanently navigating between the digital and physical mediums, Andreas & Sidi’s work is informed by industrial objects like split-flap displays seen at gas/train stations or LED panels commonly found in
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‘I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction. I steer clear of definitions. I don’t know what I want. I am inconsistent, non-committal, passive; I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty.’ #gerhardrichter ❤️
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1 year
Our galleries are situated in central London, near a number of museums like the V&A and the science museum. When we get visitors to the gallery they usually take a round, admire the work and then come back with many questions when they clock that the artworks have been created by
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Sometimes, it’s all about scale …
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Apparently around 1982 it wasn’t unusual to walk into a nightclub in NYC and bump into the likes of Basquiat, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf and Madonna Ciccone, aka Madonna. Basquiat and Madonna’s love affair lasted only for a few months but was apparently intense. Rumour has
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✨With Verse Solos we try really hard to bring out the core essence of the artists’ work ✨ Kinetic installations for Andreas & Sidi- monumental museum displays for Harvey and the purest celebrations of light for Zach. We take our exhibitions seriously 🫡. Wait till you see
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It’s on 🍾🎉
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I met Frank Stella in 2012 when I had to interview him for a film I was producing at the time. I had just had my second baby—I had two boys under 2 years old and had to leave them quite hastily with my husband when Frank agreed to meet me. I was so nervous and frankly a mess
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Installation time 💜 Pictured below from the “Swallow, only Shallow” series by @harmvddorpel
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11 months
Good morning ;-) today is is day! 🤍 @williamapan @verse_works
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@verse_leyla
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✨Bonjour✨
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1 year
Super excited to open our IRL this Tuesday ✨Quite a few people have asked us how @harvey_rayner ’s new project works? 🧵👇🏽
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I woke up to my boys (aged 11&14) blasting A Tribe Called Quest at 7am (to an album that must be from 1990s)… I have fulfilled all my parental duties 💅 #proudparentmoment
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2 years
And exhale … the beauty of the work by @pabloAlpe_ 💙💛
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🖤In 1982 Warhol met Basquiat at a party. Warhol brought out his Polaroid camera and took a number of selfies with Basquiat. 🤍He gave him the only image where Basquiat smiled ear to ear. 🖤Basquiat left the party, to return within two hours with a painting of the Polaroid
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Solos is focused on delivering a powerful program. It’s not about volume or the chain—just about great artists and great work. No need to say more; I'll let Yoshi's work speak for itself.
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1 year
💭Ahhhh…..I love what I do, especially when I get the pure delight to work with brilliance! 💎William, thank you for everything, amazing to have you in London. I’m so pleased we get to be surrounded by your beautiful work at the gallery. 🪩Picture below of Tamar Clarke-Brown
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….honestly, I don’t even think about fitting into any genre or group, it feels cheap to describe my art in words… - Yoshi Sodeoka Curators loooovveee to over-describe an artist’s work. But Yoshi purposefully defies this. And despite being shown in numerous museums and
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As many of you are aware, @verse_works highly values collaborations. Our relatively small team recognises that there's a limit to how deeply we can get into projects on our own. More than that, it is exciting to bring the energy, knowledge, and enthusiasm of other art
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…𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯 𝘉𝘢𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘪 𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘭. 𝘛𝘩𝘦
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@verse_leyla
Leyla
4 months
We discussed something quite interesting a while back with @sssluke1 and @rainisto : how these AI generators will become vintage in the near future. In not so long from now, artists might seek out computers with old stable diffusion models to achieve perfectly imperfect
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2 years
I am so glad that @emailyedelman trusted us with this series of works which come from such a personal place. Here is an image of them on display at the gallery in London. I love the ode to the mid-century colour palette in particular. Could stare at it all day.🫶🏾🧚🏾‍♀️
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1 year
We all know that she had a tough time being recognized in the early parts of her career. In fact she was so frustrated by male peers snatching her ideas that at one point she jumped out of her apartment window to take her life. She pulled herself together though,and in 1966 she
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I realise I had not posted these insanely beautiful works by @harmvddorpel 💜 at my favorite gallery ( @GalleryUpstream ). Also the exhibition of works by @JanRobertLeegte is still on if you happen to be in Amsterdam. Go visit the exhibition. It’s really an experience you don’t
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Happy Friday! ♥️  As you may know owners of “64 pixels” and “Recursive Tile” have the option to acquire the physical LED panel at an additional price of 1.5 ETH.  Any collectors who would like to claim a display panel please email our lovely colleague Anna (anna @verse .works)
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2 years
When people ask me what art is ‘really’ about, I say for me it’s about connecting with a community of individuals that deeply inspire me. The works of @carreras_anna are for me beautiful abstract interpretations of how we connect to people around us- what pulls/pushes us apart?
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▫️TRANSFER was established in 2013. At that point Lorna was already established in the digital art scene and was one of the first artists they represented. ▫️The gallery has organised close to a hundred solo exhibitions by different artists, experimenting with new models of
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Good one … This popped into my feed on instagram ( it’s by Thomas Lélu) Made me think of @williamapan in particular.
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2 years
“ Art is my life and my life is art.” (Yoko Ono )❤️❤️❤️ congratulations to @larswander and @artxcode_io for smashing it in #london ! #generativeart #artlondon #newyorkartist
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2 years
✨oh goodness☄️ ✨
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1 year
🔥🔥🔥 It’s happening!!! 🔥🔥🔥 We are opening our first VERSE SOLOS with @andreasgysin & Sidi Vanetti next Tuesday ! If you can join please RSVP 👇🏽
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Ok my camera skills are not that great, but you get the idea that’s it’s busy and quite lovely over here 🙌🏽🫶🏽✈️🌴🍦
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1 year
Well known fact that #marcelduchamp stopped making art to play chess in 1923. BUT did you know that after he stayed up all night during his honeymoon studying the game, his wife ended up glueing the pieces to his chessboard? 😂 They were divorced three months later. Ultimately
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I have to make a confession here. ↓🧵 While I am living in the deep end of the digital space, I am a lover of sculpture. I always have been. There's something so sensual and existential about being around form. It's about the body in relation to the world around it. I have
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𝒮𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝓂𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉𝓈 𝑜𝓃 𝑅𝑜𝑜𝓅𝑒'𝓈 𝓃𝑒𝓌 𝓇𝑒𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓈𝑒 ↓ Vacation explores the paradox of failing to find happiness in places designed for pleasure. Holidays are presented as an artificial and futile escape from daily life, where we spend thousands of
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Monday mood with the ever so fabulous Marina Abramović 🤍 “Art must be beautiful… Artist must be beautiful” (1975 -?)
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Huge congratulations to @TaborRobak for bringing a storm of positive energy and playfulness into the past few days. ‘Broken Printer’ is everything a digital project should be and more. I'm not sure how he achieved this, but it combines all the elements that make a work exciting.
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2 years
I love how deeply absorbed Marcel gets into the medium he works with. You can feel the fulfillment in dissecting the process, personalising it and using it to create the most dense and unique pieces. Each delving into the physicality of pixels & the cyclical nature of the machine
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1 year
Cuteness overload at @williamapan exhibition 💖 @verse_works
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2 years
Totally taken by this one 🖤✨ @Yazid so glad I managed to get one 🔮 lovely to see a version in person too at @verticalcrypto and the @TheNFTGallery4
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I remember the day @Toni_Marinara brought these works to us. He hand-carried them like precious jewels across London so that we could deliver them to the framer. Nothing was quite like unveiling them. I was amazed by their delicate, gem-like quality, but also the dynamism of the
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1 year
Hanging at the gallery with this noisy creature … 🫶🏽
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1 year
Well, that was a blast !!! Massive congratulations to @mayaonthenet for smashing it in London💗 Heaps of thanks to all the wonderful people who joined us this evening 🙏🏽 Maya - you are a TOTAL delight, we couldn’t be more grateful to work with you 💗
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Looking at these pieces, you could easily get lost in the richness of the composition. The more you zoom in, the more you are captivated by the intricacy and delicate details. While Entangled Others' technical abilities are beyond what I can easily comprehend, what makes me lose
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No tricks, no filter - just taking a picture against the light earlier today. I love the platinum effect 🤍 a happy Sunday 🤍 Installing @harmvddorpel tomorrow morning. I’m on cloud ☁️ 9 - so excited to show his incredible work Let’s go, less than 24h 🪄 @harmvddorpel
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9 months
⏰Only two days left to order a bespoke LED piece for the works of ‘64 Pixels’ and ‘Recursive Tile’. These displays are created with custom electronics and software where each edition number is inscribed into the hardware fuses of the LED controller. By no other than the
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Yayyyy Maya 🤍🤍🤍
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✨You can imagine that a mall for electronics in Shanghai would be an inspiration point for Andreas Gysin & Sidi Vanetti, right? There the very first ideas of ‘Red-Green’: 8 one-of-a-kind completely custom made artworks featuring vintage LED modules came to live. Each piece
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Marcel Duchamp interview (1956) 🐐
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New generation of art aficionados - part II 🫶🏽💖🪩
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8 months
Art, dogs, beer, love, verse … what’s more to ask for ? 🤍
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🤍Alfredo Jaar🤍 ‘Untitled (Water)’, 1992 For over 40 years, Jaar has been exploring social injustice, unequal power relations, as well as issues arising from migration/immigration within his artistic practice. His works ask for a reevaluation of our values and provoke
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SO PROUD of @verse_works artist, and dear friend Reza Aramesh, for having a major exhibition as part of the Venice Biennale Selected as the 3rd of top shows to see (above Pierre Huyghe and many others!). Feeling tearful and happy 🤍 The exhibition ‘Number 207’ presents a
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⛰️When looking at Jacek's Barbarians, it's hard not to be reminded of the iconic Ansel Adams, whose black-and-white vistas have left an important mark on the art world. 🤍Jacek's algorithmically generated landscapes integrate mathematical precision into his creative process,
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Final touches ✅
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1 year
💗Sold out event at the V&A 💗Maya spoke about the meaning of authenticity in the digital age and how our presentation on social media is ultimately a performative act. 💗She unpacked so many, many more complex and important aspects of contemporary culture that I sadly can’t
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Congratulations to Antagonist4ever for collecting one of my favourite pieces of the ‘Swallow, only Shallow’ series 🤍 See some info on the series in this THREAD below ↓
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1 year
It’s been an absolute honor working with these gems of individuals 🤍 thank you @andreasgysin and Sidi 🤍
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Verse Meets: @andreasgysin & Sidi Vanetti
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8 months
🐶the only time we use merch is on Charlie @verse_works
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Leyla
16 days
🥁🥁🥁 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴!
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Leyla
1 year
🤍C'est le week-end 🤍 @williammpan 's code is LIVE. What I love most about ‘Sketchbook A’ is how deeply connected this series is to the core of William's practice. As you all know, William has been sketching and painting religiously; it's an avenue he is growing into further
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@verse_leyla
Leyla
2 years
Huge congratulations to the artists just acquired by the LACMA (full list to announce on Monday)💫✨ it’s integral to get museums support - SUCH an incredible donation by @CozomoMedici 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 We need more of this for sure, but it’s exciting that it’s slowly happening - BRAVO❣️
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