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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The Meal of Life: Xanthopsia 171

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1. Philosophical and Artistic Context

 

The work is part of a reflection on contemporary abstraction as a spiritual language, extending Van Gogh's quest for transcendence. Before becoming a painter, he aspired to the priesthood; his artistic practice thus became an act of devotion, an offering to the divine. This piece explores this relationship through the meal—a universal symbol of life, sharing, and ritual—transposing it into a subrealist aesthetic (between figuration and dreamlike abstraction) blending expressionist gestures and digital hybridization.

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2. Creative Methodology: Physical and Digital Mixture

 

- Physical Support: Large acrylic canvas cut and reassembled, evoking the fragmentation of perceptions and ritualistic repetition (the meal as a cyclical celebration).

- Digital Integration: Photograph of the painted canvas, reworked into a frame-by-frame animation, with minimalist digital paint overlays. This animation suggests the perpetual movement of the creative gesture and the persistence of the sacred in everyday life.

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3. Subrealism and Gestural Abstraction

 

The subrealist style fuses abstract expressionism (energy of gesture, impasto reminiscent of Van Gogh) with digital distortion, creating a contemplative allegory. The shapes of the Carrel Restaurant are disarticulated, the colors saturated to convey an inner vision: no longer perceived reality, but its spiritual echo. Yellow, Van Gogh's obsessive color, here becomes a metaphor for the search for light in the darkness.

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4. Xanthopsia: Altered Perception and Positive Utopia

 

The Xanthopsia collection embodies a vision filtered through the prism of hope—even in dark moments, creation seeks light. This work offers a utopian reinterpretation of Van Gogh's legacy: not as a tragedy, but as a celebration of the persistence of the divine in art. The hybrid digital processing highlights how contemporary tools can reveal new layers of meaning in classical works, particularly their meditative and spiritual dimensions.

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5. Conclusion: Reinvention and Transcendence

 

This reinterpretation illustrates art's ability to transcend time through a dialogue between techniques and symbols. By blending acrylics, photography, and animation, it asks:

- How can digital technology deepen our relationship with the sacred in art?

- How does digital subculture and reappropriation become a new ritual of transmission?

The homage to Van Gogh thus goes beyond a simple quotation; it becomes an active meditation on creation as an act of faith, where the meal—and by extension, art—nourishes both body and soul, yesterday and today.

 

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Final Synthesis:

"The Meal of Life" is a manifesto on the persistence of the spiritual in art in the digital age. Through subrealism and hybridization of media, it transforms the Carrel Restaurant into a space of ritual contemplation, where Van Gogh's gesture meets the potential of digital technology to reaffirm: to create is still to believe.

 

 

The Meal of Life: Xanthopsia 171:

Tribute to :

« The Restaurant Carrel in Arles   »

Original in collection: Sammlung Murray S. Danforth, Jr.

 

 

Digital art version :

3840 x 2160 px / 4K MP4 / 191 Mo / 15 fps / 1/1 édition on @objkt

technique

collage

format

landscape

duration

01:00

year

2025

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