Treeskulltown

France

Treeskulltown is the conceptual avatar of a French multidisciplinary artist. For the last 4 years, he has been working in the field of digital art. Having grown up in the 80s, the emergence and development of computer technologies and techniques resonated with him and fuelled his curiosity. With 20 years of experimentation and hybridisation between physical and digital art under his belt, his work today is as much a personal quest as an artistic one. When he became a father, a need for simplicity and freedom, combined with the constraints of mobility, led him to return to the source of the desire to create and the pleasure of doing so, using organic materials (earth, paper, paint, cardboard, wood, etc.). It's a way of rediscovering meaning by naturally reconnecting with feelings and emotions. His aim is to develop a temporal parallel, a conversation, with the masters of classical art, to create a sub-reality to art history using mixed media animation techniques, thus creating an analogue palimpsest in digital strata.

Very involved in the crypto-artist community, his works are collected in Ethereum on FOUNDATION, in Tezos on OBJKT and in Bitcoin on GAMMA. Since 2022, his work has been exhibited and presented internationally at major events such as Art Crush Gallery, MOWNA, NFT NYC, NFT Japan, DAM Zine, NFC Lisbon, NFT Factory Paris, R HAUS Art Basel Miami, QUANTA Gallery London, IHAM NFT Gallery Paris. He was also selected in 2024 in The Hug 100 artists to watch and in the N3W Society Bookzine with the web3 agency: BRAWHAUS. His continual quest to reinvent himself and experiment provokes an emotional interaction with the viewer while guiding them with a subtle and conceptualised narrative.


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Le système équivalent au symbole: Xanthopsia 219

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A subrealist reinterpretation of Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of a Man.

Xanthopsia 219 is not a simple aesthetic variation; it is an active philosophical device. Through a hybrid palimpsest technique — merging acrylic, digital painting, and animation — the work deconstructs van Gogh’s legacy to reveal a major contemporary entropy: the moment when a system loses its function and becomes a mere symbol.

I. The Concept: The Entropy of Meaning

At the core of this work lies the premise: “The system is equivalent to the symbol.”

Whether political, social, or personal, every system eventually sees its concrete functions erode. An institution may cease to function, yet continue to signify through the force of its rituals. Here, van Gogh’s original portrait — a system of representation — is dismantled. The work materializes this symbolism, inviting introspection: which aspects of your identity are still functional, and which are now only symbolic?

II. Aesthetics: “Subrealism” and the Palimpsest

Xanthopsia 219 asserts a subrealist approach (that which lies beneath reality).
- Archaeology of the Present: The work operates as a palimpsest. Acrylic anchors it in material reality, while digital layers embody reinterpretation.
- Raw Energy: Gestural abstraction seeks to extract the emotional structure that precedes form — to reveal what van Gogh felt, rather than what he saw.

III. The Hybrid Dimension: A Living Dialogue

The integration of digital technologies transforms the object into a dynamic process. Frame-by-frame animation prevents meaning from becoming fixed. It creates a perpetual oscillation between figurative order (the past) and creative chaos (the present), generating the “tensions and harmonies” characteristic of the Xanthopsia collection.

- Series: Xanthopsia
- Technique: Hybrid (acrylic on canvas, digital painting, frame-by-frame animation)
- Theme: Subrealist abstraction, systems philosophy, palimpsest
- Tribute to Vincent van Gogh: Portrait of a Man (1889), Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
- Hybrid digital version: 3840 × 2160 px / 4K MP4 / 188 MB / 8 fps / unique edition

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