NFT M.E.
Emergeast NFT Exhibition
Curated by Ali Sabet�23 Nov - 9 Jan 2021
www.emergeast.com
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NFT M.E.
NFT M.E. is Emergeast’s inaugural online NFT exhibition curated by renowned NFT artist
Ali Sabet. The exhibition will go live on Tuesday, 23 November, 2021 on OpenSea.io.
Showcasing a wide variety of NFT artworks, NFT M.E. offers a glimpse into fine art NFTs. Detailing growth, feminism and socio-cultural themes, the highly curated works in the exhibition showcase dynamic NFTs by the Middle East’s prolific digital artists, heralding the beginning of this digital revolution.
As a natively online company, this NFT exhibition is an extension of Emergeast’s core belief in the power of technology and art and the innovative opportunities it brings to both artists and collectors alike. With this exhibition, Emergeast aims to make NFTs accessible to young collectors, while also guiding the traditional art collectors looking to expand their collection with NFTs that are here to stay.
This is only just the start of building a friendly and accessible curation of NFTs guiding collectors into this new mode of art collecting and self expression.
Join the Digital Revolution.
(All artworks range from 0.3 ETH (~$1330)﹣2ETH (~$8890))
*price in today’s value 29/11/2021
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Mays Al Moosawi
Mays’ signature women are unshielded, raw and strike a powerful yet unique stance. For the first time, her illustrated women are coming to life thanks to NFTs. Mays explains the inspiration behind the work, “As you find yourself looking back on this year be aware of the illusion of time.”
b.1994, Oman
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Where Did The Time Go?, NFT Animation, Edition 1 of 1, 2021, Sold
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Mazyar Kamkar
Fusing both cultural heritage and blockchain technology, CarpETHereum symbolises one of the many ways digital art has reached a new era. Here stands the diamond shaped Ethereum symbol (where most NFTs are stored) adorned in a Persian carpet.
“This piece is a cumulation of our motherland and the immediate aeon. This specific design which originated from Kashan, demonstrates the traditional and classic Persian carpet arrangements that stand for the highest and finest craftsmanship. We believe that NFT is a culture and we are here for it.”
Iran
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CarpETHereum, NFT Animation,
Edition 1 of 1, 2021, 1 ETH.
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M Smart
Inspired by the menace of thought and the roars of deep belly laughter, Smart is known for his depiction of a unique world created by his mind - a world whose inhabitants exist in their rawest form. Smart's art bursts with paradoxical themes of aliens and apocalyptic life juxtaposed with warm colours creating a satirical blend of two worlds that leaves the viewer to use their imagination and interpretation.
b.1998, Iran
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Bad Trip at the Studio, NFT Digital,
Edition 1 of 1, 2021, 1 ETH, (~$4440)
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Muhcine Ennou
As the first part of an ongoing series, this work was created using CGI as a new medium of expression. Muhcine Ennou's NFTs offer a bridge between what is, what is imagined and what could be, creating a transcended visual experience of the imagined and surreal. In his digital renditions, we discover a certain tenderness, a feeling of evasion.
b.1991, Morocco
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Flourishing, NFT Animation,
Edition 1 of 1, 2021, 0.8ETH (~$3550) (includes audio)
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Muhcine Ennou
As the first part of an ongoing series, this work was created using CGI as a new medium of expression. Muhcine Ennou's NFTs offer a bridge between what is, what is imagined and what could be, creating a transcended visual experience of the imagined and surreal. In his digital renditions, we discover a certain tenderness, a feeling of evasion.
b.1991, Morocco
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Scattered, NFT Animation,
Edition 1 of 1, 2021, Sold. (includes audio)
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Amelia Hadouchi
Inspired by positivism, well being and nature, Amelia Hadouchi’s works oftentimes transport the viewer on a mental voyage.
“This work represents our society and how distractions from the "essential" are always showing up. This creation is a reminder that we can always ''exit'' those distractions to go to ''source''. Hence why the only items that are moving are from nature & spirituality.
This scene represents the need for connection as human beings and technology, sometimes, getting in a way of that connection.”
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Vivid Vision 2, NFT Animation,
Edition 1 of 1, 2021, 1 ETH (~$4440)
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Through her collage art, Beya Khalifa creates a state of perpetual fantasy. Kitsch and Orientalism are cheekily repurposed to reflect our weird, wonderful, and whimsical world.
Beya explains, “This collage is an attempt to examine the space where our bias and the internal lives of the photographed subjects meet. Have our preconceived notions and tendency to exoticize what is "other" irreversibly tainted the narratives of that which we are unfamiliar with? Or do those narratives - and the people they belong to - exist, brightly and defiantly, despite our best attempts at painting them with the same brush?”
Beya Khalifa
b.1994, Egypt
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Past Lives, NFT Digital,
Edition 1 of 1, 2021, 0.3ETH (~$1330)
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Farbod’s artworks are a one-of-a-kind combination of his theoretical understanding of architecture and geometry with digital art. Farbod explains, “This artwork is inspired by art in Qajar Era in Iran and the portrait of Fath Ali Shah and the story of the little prince. The King has left earth to look for utopia in space. To put it another way, we can say the man is the king of his own land.”
Farbod Mehr
b.1991, Iran
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Looking for Utopia, NFT Animation,
Edition 1 of 1, 2021, 0.8ETH (~$3550) (includes audio)
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Like its physical predecessors, this work is an invitation to go beyond the surface of the 2D visual and into some sort of infinity. Exploring the tension between order and chaos, Sasan Nasernia has expanded his practice in Persian classical and modern calligraphy to different mediums that range from painting and print to digital work and installation.
Through his signature calligraphy work, Sasan immerses elements taken from traditional Persian painting and iconography into a world of abstraction and ambiguity.
Sasan Nasernia
b.1974, Iran
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Wortext, NFT Animation,
Edition 1 of 1, 2021, 1 ETH (~$4440)
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Rabee Baghshani is the latest digital artist to enter the Iranian art landscape. She currently resides in Mashhad, Iran pursuing her art. Her digital renditions represent a hybrid of East and West where she bridges together her country’s cultural history with our present global pop culture. By placing the Qajari figures in a Western context, Rabee infuses a satirical playfulness in her artworks.
Rabee Baghshani
b.1982, Iran
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Under Construction, NFT Animation,
Edition 1 of 1, 2021, 2ETH (~$8890)
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On a quest to find discipline and order in a world of unraveling chaos, Parham’s digital works are what he likes to call ‘expanded painting’, bringing his art knowledge and skills to NFTs. Parham views the digital realm as an invitation to go on an adventure of new opportunities. Crypto Poetry #1 consists of 70 handmade drawings presented as a 10 frame per second animated gif in 1000x1000 pixel.
Parham Ghalamdar
b.1994, Iran
Crypto Poetry #1, NFT Animation,
Edition 1 of 1, 2021, Sold
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“This NFT exhibition reflects Emergeast’s mission by empowering their young collectors through providing them with an accessible and inviting way to explore this new form of art collecting.”
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Nic Courdy
Nic’s works use the public domain and digital media to explore ideas of compilation aesthetics and silent collaboration. Vanity Plate presents a hybrid of past and present art forms, producing a reformed new contemporary narrative that echo the current social constructions within the digital landscape.
b.1990, Palestine
Vanity Plate, NFT Animation,
Edition 1 of 1, 2021, 0.8ETH (~$3550) (includes audio)
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"Everyone is so afraid of Death, but the real Sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl."- Rumi
“Death is an unknown experience for human beings. In so many religions, Death is a transition to mortal life.
Death is a part of life. It is a transition to eternal life. So it could be beautiful and meaningful, but it is not the end. It is beautiful destruction. It is a beginning, a beginning of eternity.”
Keyvan Shovir
b.1985, Iran
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Beautiful Destruction, NFT Animation,
Edition 1 of 1, 2021, Sold
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Parsa Mostaghim is an Iranian artist based in Turkey, exploring the possibilities of combining painting, 2D/3D animation and sound.
Parsa Mostaghim
b.1998, Iran
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Entangled, NFT Animation,
Edition 1 of 1, 2021, 1.2ETH (~$5330) (includes audio)
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Lavender Dreams, NFT Animation,
Edition 1 of 1, 2021, Sold
Purple hues of post apocalyptic nostalgia. For everyone far from home, gazing. A story of time, space and dystopia.
Adra Kandil is a female visual artist and designer knows as 'Dear Nostalgia'. Her work combines retro vibes with vivid pop colors and sleek typography to create a visual image of our generation's struggle.
Dear Nostalgia
b.1993, Lebanon
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“In the depth of your soul you will find water to cleanse with, fire to fuel your passions, earth to ground you and air to keep you moving forward.”
Parin is a multidisciplinary Iranian artist, based in Italy. Her focus is on ‘one-line’ drawings and contemporary portraits. Before making NFT art as her full time job, she worked as a Creative Director and Graphic Designer for 10 years in The Netherlands, Italy, and Iran. Parin was one of TimePieces featured NFT artists.
Parin Heidari
b.1986, Iran
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Soul, NFT Digital,
Edition 1 of 1, 2021, 1.4ETH (~$6200)
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The central figure in the piece is that of an imagined ancestor, a woman living hundreds of years ago in the mountains of South Lebanon.
Hage’s recent work has centered on matrilineal transmission of identity, composed through the use of textile and archive photography. In this piece imagination and daydreaming take over from archival research. However, the connection to textile remains, with the patterns having been composed from the photographic digitization and manipulation of a single polyester shirt the artist picked up in a London charity shop during a particularly hopeful time.
This work breathes life into a synthetic fabric picked up in a new hometown by connecting it to an almost unknowable personal past.
Nour Hage
b.1988, Lebanon
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The Spring Flowers, NFT Animation,
Edition 1 of 1, 2021, 1 ETH (~$4440)
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LA based Ali Sabet (@sabet) is an Iranian-American artist whose work has been showcased around the world in collaboration with luxury brands like BMW, Mont Blanc and Lululemon. Ali is the top selling artist on the KnownOrigin platform and has traded over 1000ETH (~$4,260,920) worth of NFTs alone on OpenSea. He is recognized for his paintings of beautiful and confident women with large breathtaking eyes and his signature long lashes and defined lips. He is also known for his unique Pixopop (@pixopop) characters.
About Our Curator
Ali Sabet
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Lavender Dreams, NFT Animation,
Edition 1 of 1, 2021, 0.4ETH (~$1700)
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About Emergeast.com
Emergeast is the MENA region’s first and leading online gallery championing emerging and mid-career Middle Eastern & North African artists while empowering the latest generation of collectors through storytelling.
Through a highly curated selection of MENA artists, the mission is to facilitate a platform designed for cross-cultural dialogue between art curators and collectors, – both young and seasoned – with a growing number of artists from the MENA region. Emergeast aims to break down the barriers to art collecting by facilitating access to promising artists from the region at accessible prices. With the vision of becoming the region’s chosen cultural lifestyle destination, Emergeast continues to look for innovative ways to deepen the connection between their inspiring artists and the larger art community.
Emergeast’s essence lies in collaboration and elevating the collective consciousness by enhancing everyday life through art and beauty.
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