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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Peaceful Reveries: Xanthopsia 170

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Artistic and Philosophical Context

 

The work "Peaceful Reveries," a reinterpretation of Vincent van Gogh's "Portrait of Paul-Eugène Milliet," is part of a contemporary and philosophical approach, exploring the tensions between figuration and abstraction. This piece embodies a hybrid vision, combining mixed media (acrylic on canvas and digital creation) and stop-motion animation, to offer a meditation on the duality of today's world.

Artistically, it is rooted in gestural Abstract Expressionism, where the pictorial gesture—whether physical or digital—becomes a vehicle for emotion and reflection. The enchanting colors symbolize a search for positivity and light in the heart of darkness, resonating with van Gogh's own utopian quest. Philosophically, the work questions the coexistence of opposites: war and peace, trauma and healing, tradition and innovation. It offers a contemplative allegory where art becomes a space of resilience, an antidote to violence through reverie and color.

 

Technical and Aesthetic Approach

 

- Acrylic paint on photographed canvas: The physical basis of the work preserves the materiality and energy of the artistic gesture, capturing van Gogh's expressive essence while transposing it into a subrealist and unconventional language.

- Digital painting and minimalist animation: The superimposition of frame-by-frame animations introduces a temporal and immersive dimension, transforming static contemplation into a dynamic experience. This hybridization reinforces the idea of ​​reinvention and adaptation, specific to digital subculture.

The mixed media here serves as a metaphor for contemporary duality: the physical embodies anchoring in reality and history, while the digital represents evolution, memory, and the dematerialization of experiences.

 

Cultural and Digital Implications

 

In this context, this reinterpretation goes beyond a simple homage to question:

- The way in which digital technologies can enrich and complicate our relationship with classical works.

- The ability of art to build bridges between eras, techniques, and sensibilities.

- The role of the contemporary artist as a mediator between heritage and innovation.

The minimalist animation, composed of deliberate errors like a waking dream, while remaining restrained, invites active contemplation, where the viewer is led to appropriate the work through an expanded sensory and temporal experience.

Conclusion: Transcendence and Reinvention

 

"Peaceful Reveries" and the Xanthopsia collection illustrate the power of art to reinvent itself without denying itself. By merging Van Gogh's legacy with contemporary language, the work offers a vision where abstraction becomes a tool of resistance in the face of collective trauma, and where color acts as a symbolic balm. This approach ultimately questions the very function of art: not only as a mirror of the world, but as a laboratory of poetic and philosophical alternatives, capable of transforming perception and offering spaces for reverie to soothe the fractures of reality.

 

Peaceful Reveries: Xanthopsia 170

Tribute to Van Gogh :

« Portrait of Paul-Eugène Milliet, Second Lieutenant of the Zouaves  »

Original in : Kröller-Müller Museum :

 

 

Digital art version :

2160 x 3840 px / 4K MP4 / 149 Mo / 15 fps / 30 édition at 10 #xtz on @objkt

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portrait

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2025

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