NoCreative

Denmark

Kristian Levin aka noCreative is a 3D Artist working out of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has 15+ years of experience across multiple disciplines in the creative industry, including the traditional art space and fine arts photography. Known for his striking highly detailed, technical, signature 3D cloth and interior/environment work, he has set himself apart within the NFT art community as a thought leader, artist, collector and curator.


Kristian entered the NFT scene in late 2020, enabling a life long dream of becoming an established artist. He has been exhibited at multiple venues the world over like; Calgary contemporary, TED Vancouver, Beijing contemporary, TEFAF in the Netherlands, the Stratosphere in Beijing and at multiple billboards in Times Square during NFT NYC, to name a few. Kristian is considered a community leader within the NFT Twitter space and has amassed a following of over 33k which is growing at a rate of 8% per month. He's been a curator on two official drops on Makersplace, one for SuperRare in association with NEAL and recently did his first curated drop on Nifty Gateway.


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En Route

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Restrained we dreamed the unattainable, of acquisition, of possession, of autonomy, of provenance In ambiguous birth, aestheticism flourishes, transgresses, perishes

Since the inception of the craft, digital artists have been restricted. We were held back as creatives making the only way to "make it" through the commercial, tv or movie industries. We have been told our art was worthless, indoctrinated to believe it. The digital age has now given us value, we have been given provenance, we have been set free. Right now, we are in a melting pot-chaotic, jumbled together, all under one umbrella... we are searching for our place in this chaos.

Some will rise and become artists of this century while others will fail and be filtered out. New styles of art are emerging, while others are whittling and dying forever. En Route is a piece that was inspired by Hans Haackes Blue sail installation from 1964. With En route Kristian envisioned doing something highly technical; making the impossible loop. By taking the erratic nature of a piece of cloth in the wind and seamlessly looping it, he has created a contemporary art installation viewed through a screen. While Hans Haackes was restricted by basic physics, Kristian was not. He has done the impossible : this is art in transformation. The sound scape is my own recordings from Vesterlyngen in Denmark, which was the inspiration for the flora. The underlying drone is: Am der schöne blauen Donau by Johann Strauss II, slowed by 800%, cut and chopped(an ode to spring and summer).

Technical breakdown: Kristian used Cinema 4D to create the scene, topology and flora. The cloth simulations were done in Houdini. Textures are hand painted in photoshop, visualized in Octane Render, as well as the lighting and camera art direction. All post production is done in DaVinci Resolve.

Exhibitions: This artwork was a part of the showing at LOOK 22 at the Calgary. Contemporary, along with artists like Andy Warhol(first NFTs to be part of a CC exhibition). It will also be a part of the art fair exhibition at the Beijing Contemporary Where I've acted as a guest curator of the NFT part of the exhibition, in association with SuperRare.

technique

3d

format

landscape

duration

04:26

year

2022

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