Igor Martins

Brazil

Igor Martins is a Brazilian artist and creative director whose work bridges traditional and digital mediums, encompassing classic drawing, oil painting, 3D animation, and visual effects. Since 2001, he has explored the interplay between the physical and metaphysical realms, delving into themes of immanence versus transcendence, and the natural juxtaposed with the supernatural. This philosophical approach manifests in his art, inviting viewers to contemplate the boundaries between the concrete and the imaginary.

As the founder and partner of UP Studio, an internationally acclaimed motion and visual effects studio, Igor has led teams in producing content for prominent clients including Netflix, Google, Coca-Cola, Samsung, and Warner Music. His foray into the NFT space has seen his work featured on platforms such as MakersPlace, KnownOrigin, and Crypto.com. He has been highlighted as an artist by the Museum of Crypto Art (MoCA) and the Museum of Digital Contemporary Art (MoCDA). Notably, his art has been showcased at events like Metaverse Art Week in Decentraland and NFT São Paulo on Spatial.io, highlighting his influence in the digital art sphere.


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Weight and Lightness - Anvil

This digital video-art series is a visual metaphor for the search for the transcendental. We have always sought the point of contact between the tangible and the transcendent. In this relationship, we discover the element of weight - guilt, shame, mistakes, sadness, penance - and the element of lightness - forgiveness, trust, truth, exultation, and absolution. In this relation between weight and lightness, there is a connection that maintains balance and upward movement, which are only maintained as long as this connection exists.

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In Hinduist, Buddhist and other eastern traditions the practice of meditation and meditative chants are based on the philosophy of balance in everyday life.

We have tried to find the balance between weight and lightness since our origin. In this millenary pursuit many philosophies, ideologies, beliefs and religions have emerged that have tried to point the way to perfect balance. Our insurmountable challenge is that our imperfection will fail to create perfection, and this sublime and harmonic solution will not come from the hands of broken mankind.

technique

3d

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portrait

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01:00

year

2021

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