NFT Open Call Policy

NFT Exhibition Pollicy

Commencement Date means the date on which this Policy shall commence as specified in 1. Schedule

NFT means Non-fungible Token, a unit of data stored on a digital ledger, called a Blockchain, that certifies a digital asset to be unique and therefore not interchangeable;

 Purpose means the limited purpose set out in Schedule 1, for which the Matigan is authorized to use the Art pursuant to this Policy.

Schedule means Schedule 1 to this Policy.

2. Interpretation

2.1 The clause headings are for ease of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation or construction of this Policy. Any reference to an enactment includes reference to it as already amended and induces a reference to any repealed enactment which it may reenact, with or without amendment, and to any future re-enactment and/or amendment of it which modifies, consolidates, or replaces it in whole or in part whether expressly or by implication.

3. Grant of License

3.1 1n consideration of the payments to be made by the Matigan to the Artist under clause 5, the Artist grants to the Matigan unlimited permission to Create an NFT with the above-described Art in perpetuity without expectation of receiving additional compensation.

3.2 Artist retains the right to aim for original authorship of the Artwork as it was created. Matigan will provide credit to Artist whenever possible. Artist relinquishes, the right, to reproduce Artwork as any additional NFT format if found in violation, Matigan may use all options under the law to recoup what it may consider lost revenue.

3.3 Artist can’t sell those pieces as NFT mentioned in the Policy while holding this contract with the gallery.

3.4 This Policy shall automatically terminate with the death of the Artist or the Gallery becomes bankrupt or insolvent.

4. Conditions of Use

4.1 The Matigan undertakes that:

(a) It shall use the Art only in relation to the Purpose specified in Schedule 1.

(b) It shall conform to any statutory or other regulatory requirements in respect of them which may be applicable from time to time within the Territory  including without limitation securing all third-party permissions and clearances as may be necessary to enable the Matigan to exercise the rights granted under this Policy;

(c) It shall not amend. adapt, use or position the Art so as to suggest that the Artist or any of the persons appearing in the Art endorse any commercial product or service or any political party or belief or use tobacco or alcohol or drugs;

(d) Will not distribute, sell, license, or sub-license, let, trade, or expose for sale the Art (other than the NFT) to a third party,

4.2 Nothing contained in this Policy shall entitle the Matigan to use the Art as part of any corporate business or trading name or style of the Matigan.

4.3 The Matigan shall not alter in any way the Art except to the extent absolutely necessary to exercise the rights granted under this Policy provided always that any intellectual property rights arising in respect of the alterations shall vest in the Artist.

4.4 The Matigan shall accord credit on any use or reproduction of the Art in the name of the Artist and shall agree with all other parties who display the Art for the NFT sale that they shall accord us the same credit, However, any inadvertent failure by the Matigan to accord such credit and any failure by any third party to accord such credit shall not comminute a breach of this Policy by Matigan provided that the Matigan uses reasonable endeavors to remedy any such failure that the Artist make the Matigan aware of, as soon as reasonably practicable and on a prospective basis only, provided that the Matigan i, not required to recall any print or other material already ordered nor incur any legal costs or expenses.

4.5 The Art, in its original state, may be photographed or re-produced by Matigan for advertising and marketing purposes. Matigan agrees that all promotions shall be dignified and in keeping with the Artist’s reputation as a respected professional

4.6 The Artist irrevocably grants Matigan the exclusive right to include the Image in its Catalog(s), postcard(s), educational material(s), and inclusion on its website, and for other promotional materials and opportunities.

4.7 The Artist shall have no artistic control over the Matigan’s adaptations or alterations to the Artwork as it relates to this Policy. All adaptation/ alteration decisions shall be made solely by Matigan’s representatives for the purposes of the application outlined in the Scope of Work in this Policy.

4.8 In case of the security issue, hacking, either on Matigan’s website or Rarible’s website the Matigan has no responsibility for any harm occurring.

(a) TERMINATION OF CONTRACT. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Policy, this Policy may be terminated at any time by either Gallery or Artist, by means of notification of termination from either party to the other. Upon the notification of termination, all accounts shall be settled and all unsold Artworks shall be returned. In the event of the Artist’s death, the estate of the Artist shall have the right to terminate the Policy. 

5. Payment

5.1 The fee for participating in the NFT exhibition is 16 euros for the pieces that already participated in the BlackLivesMatter Matigan Online exhibition in 2020. The works would be on sale for an unlimited time until the Matigan or the Artist decides to stop.

The fee covers the time and online space on Matigan.com website,

5.3 After the final sale, the gas fee based on the updated version of Blockchain, the percentage of the Raible and Matigan, and the vat Tax would be deducted, hence the Artist when considering a price for each of the pieces, she should have that in mind. The Artist can ask for suggestions from Matigan.

5.2 The license granted under this Policy will not commence until the receipt of the payment under Clause 5.1 above by the Artist.

5.3 Matigan will have no additional financial liabilities or royalties due to the Artist outside of the agreed-upon license fee and commission.

5.4 The Matigan will receive 22 % of the sale price from the sale of the NFT and Rarible 2.5 %. The Matigan is not responsible for market fluctuations within the Blockchain.

5.5 The Matigan will hold the sale proceeds for the Artist after the sale. The Matigan is required to make payment to the Artist within 7 days from the date of receiving the sale proceeds (after deducting the commission.

5.6 The Fee and Commission set out in Schedule 1 is exclusive of VAT. If the Matigan is obliged by law to deduct a withholding tax on the Fee it will provide the Artist with a valid deduction certificate to enable the Artist to obtain the benefit of any relevant double taxation treaty.

5.7 Artist can set a percentage of loyalty for her works and Matigan will take 0.7 percent.

After the sale, the artist will get the payment in digital currency on the Raible website uses.

6. Warranty and Indemnity

6.1 The Artist warrants and undertakes that:

(a) That the Artist is the exclusive owner of any and all rights in and to the Art and that no other individual or entity may claim any rights, title, and/or interest in and to said, Art;

(b) The Art will contain nothing that will infringe any rights of any third party, nor be contrary to any law, nor does it contain any obscene, blasphemous, or defamatory matter, and its exploitation shall not place any person in contempt of court nor in breach of any provision of any statute; and

(c) The Artist is not aware, having made full and reasonable inquiry, of any claim by any third party that the Art or any preexisting material incorporating the Art or included within the Art, or the exploitation of the Art by either party, has infringed or will infringe any rights of any third party and the Artist agrees that the Artist shall immediately inform the Matigan if the Artist becomes aware of any such claim

6.2 The Artist undertakes and agrees to identify and hold the Matigan harmless from all and any claims, actions, proceedings, demands, obligations, liabilities, losses, costs, charges, damages, fines, judgments, assessments, penalties, and other expenses, incurred or suffered by the Matigan as a result of or arising from any act or omission of the Artist under this Policy, or at law.

6.3 Artist hereby waives in favor of Matigan and all its assignee, and successors in the title all moral rights in the Art to which the Artist may be entitled under the relevant intellectual property regulations as amended from time to time to the extent necessary for us to exploit the license granted under this Policy

7. Ownership

7.1 The Matigan recognizes that the Artist is the sole and exclusive owner in the Territory of all right, title, and interest in the Art and all copies of the Art; and shall not at any time do or suffer to be done any act or thing which is likely to in any way prejudice the Artist’s title.

7.2 The Matigan further agrees that:

 (b) It shall include in its advertisements and other media statements to the effect that the Artist is the owner of the Art.

8. Assignments and Other Dealings

8.1 Neither party shall have the right to assign this Policy without the prior written consent of the other party.

9. Entire Policy

9.1 This Policy contains the entire Policy between the parties regarding the subject matter of this Policy, and there are no other promises or conditions in any other Policy, whether oral or written.

10. Severability

10.1 Each provision of this Policy and each part of any provision shall be severable.

10.2 If any provision or term of this Policy shall become or be declared illegal, invalid, or unenforceable for any reason whatsoever the term or provision shall be devisable from this Policy and shall be deemed to be deleted from this

10.3 If any provision or term of this Policy shall become or be declared illegal, invalid, or unenforceable for any reason whatsoever the term or provision shall be devisable from this Policy and shall be deemed to be deleted from this Policy provided always that if the deletion substantially affects or alters the commercial basis of this Policy the parties shall negotiate in good faith to amend or modify the provisions and terms of this Policy as may be necessary or desirable in the circumstances (such Policy not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed by either party).

11. Waivers and Amendments

11.1 No failure or delay by the Artist in exercising any right, power, or privilege under this Policy including (but not limited to) the right to terminate this Policy under clause 13 shall operate as a waiver of that right, power or privilege, nor shall any single or partial exercise by the Artist of any right, power or privilege preclude any further exercise of any other right, power or privilege.

11.2 The rights and remedies provided for are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights and remedies provided by law,

11.3 No provision of this Policy may be amended, modified, waived, discharged or terminated otherwise than by the express written Policy of the parties to this Policy nor may any breach of any provision of this Policy be waived or discharged except with the express written consent of the party not in breach,

12. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

12.1. The parties shall use all reasonable endeavors to resolve any dispute amicably and in good faith. This document is governed by and is to be construed in accordance with German law. All disputes controversy, differences, or claims arising out of or in connection with this document, including any question regarding its existence, validity, or termination, or any dispute regarding non-contractual obligations shall be finally settled under the arbitration rules of the Berlin Court of International Arbitration by one or more arbitrators appointed in accordance with the said rules. The seat of Arbitration shall be Berlin.

Matigan Art and Culture NFT Exhibition Open Call

Matigan Art and Culture NFT Exhibition Open Call

Matigan Art and Culture announces its NFT call for artists, creators, musicians, poets, writers, and researchers for a juried online NFT art exhibition! Our theme for this exhibition is What Your Heart sings It’s a free theme and you can use this as a way to express or dream freely, so from wherever you are on this planet, and in whatever medium you are working on, being writing, drawing, painting, sculpture to digital art, photography, video art, music, sound installation, dance, and performance art, you are welcome to send us your artworks, it can be a cry of hopelessness or a sign of love and hope. We make the selected ones into NFT and we present them on our NFT platform Rarible and our other social platforms and website.

This online showcase provides an opportunity to challenge physical art gallery norms as we introduce our new online exhibitions. With an online show, we are able to open up this Artist Call around the world, broaden our art network to include artists across the planet, and extend our experience at Matigan Art and Culture

The jury is considered the pieces in the process of arriving so it’s an ongoing exhibition.

It’s free to participate and the chosen ones will be introduced via our website and social media platforms.

Entry Process:

All entries will be submitted via Email matigan.art@gmail.com, after the jury decides on pieces the pieces will be on Matigan Account as an NFT for sale. Please read our policy for more details and how to open a Crypto wallet the easiest way.

Questions may be directed to Visual Arts Exhibition Manager matigan.art@gmail.com

Deadline: 22/09/2022

ELIGIBILITY:
-Open to any age, working in all traditional and non-traditional 2D and 3D media

-All artwork must be original in concept, design, and execution.

All forms of art in any medium can be sent in digital form
[including text, painting, drawing, illustration, collage, sound recording, multimedia art, photography, vocal poetry, installation, polyphony, dance, performance, sculpture, sound design, textile art]

-Image files should be saved in universal .jpeg format for entry and should be between 1400 pixels and 4000 pixels longest dimension at 300PPI (pixels per inch). Video files should be saved in .mov or .mp4.
-sound/music compositions (preferably on Sound cloud, WAV files preferred, or mp3 320 if longer than 15 min)


-All works will be presented with a picture that must be followed by a description of the work.
-We are accepting up to 7 submissions per artist.
-There are no special qualifications required for entry.

– Matigan Art And Culture is dedicated to exhibiting works of fine art that promote the artist’s artistic ability, vision, and creativity within the traditional and no traditional art forms of 2D and 3D works. In this respect, all artwork should be original and created from conception to completion by the artist’s own hand. No artwork copied from other artists’ work or published photos, or created in an instructional setting is eligible.

Black Lives Matter Exhibition

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Click on Gallery A for seeing the collection of painting, drawing, sculpture and mixed media, on Gallery B for video art, photography and design and on Meet The Artists for getting to know our artists.

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Execution of George Floyd on May 25, 2020 in the middle of the day and in front of the whole world was one of the clearest evidence of racism and brutality based on color, in 21 century. We clearly saw that human beings are still being tortured and killed for what they are and they didn’t choose themselves, it was such a shock for the humanity for the simple fact that it was captured on cameras.

Discrimination is utterly ugly and wrong but clearly on paper because in reality people are still being targets of it in any form.  We hope that in time human beings and mostly political systems reach to an understanding of how to stop this violence, but until then at Matigan as always we tend to translate the common universal feelings through art and the heart of our artists.

Matigan Artists

 

 

Sylvain Souklaye

Sylvain Souklaye is a French performance and installation artist obsessed with sampling.intimacies about people who don’t belong to a determinate identity, gender, class, colour or nationality.

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His performances are a collage of individual memories which are relived for the audience. Self-taught, he began performing with vandalism in Lyon (France) and then intimate happenings, radio experimentation and action poetry. He later developed digital art installations using field recording techniques as a narrative layer while pursuing his writer’s path. Among his best known pieces are la blackline, a five-year durational radio performance about socioeconomic survival and urban absurdity, le déserteur a digital art installation dwelling on the notion of abandonment, TME a docudrama performance exploring self-inflicted amnesia and resilience and Migrant Market a remake of the slave market updated for the uber economy. Sylvain Souklaye’s methods characteristically involve intense physical acts as well as the use of unsettling intimacy.

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Barry Despenza

Barry Despenza: You will find that his work is centered on power structures that underlie the perception of what it means to be visually stimulated. He uses soundscapes as a canvas while video is used as the brush to complete the piece.By removing all aesthetic differences and exposing the viewer he creates a spectacle curated by human experience.

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This is successful by expanding on his auditory lens to include samples, found footage and original compositions through the use of DAW and moving images.  He is able to morph sound and music together to a larger concealed language in which we associate with memory, textures and storytelling with a heavy emphasis on experimental techniques.

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Alice Mason

Alice Mason is an emerging urban photographer with a strong focus on documenting everyday moments, from protests to commutes. Having studied film at university she has experimented with different mediums before finding a passion for photography.

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Believing there is great beauty to be found in everyday life, none of her photos are staged and instead capture organic scenes of life in the capital. With the majority of her photography being in black and white she pays a lot of attention to light and shade and the roles they play in creating powerful images.

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Maundy Mitchell

Maundy Mitchell is an internationally acclaimed portrait photographer and Associate Level Photographer with The Portrait Masters International. She runs her portrait studio, Maundy Mitchell Photography, in Plymouth, NH.

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Her photos have been published in magazines, on billboards, and online nationally and internationally. She is a member of the Professional Photographer’s Association of America, the National Association of Professional Child Photographers, the Magic Hour Foundation Photographer Network, and the Women’s Caucus for Art in New Hampshire. She holds a trademark on the phrase, “People are Beautiful”, which is her core belief as a photographer.

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Jota Ramos

Jota Ramos is born  in 1989 , Jota is a black queer artist from Brazil currently living in Berlin.

Tzen Xing

Tzen Xing is a Chinese American woman photographer and an activist who got born in 1968, who has been involved in the struggle for justice and equality for many years. She is thankful whenever she has the opportunities to combine her activism and photography, like the Black Lives Matter protests this year.   She is mainly a self-taught street photographer.

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The streets and people are the source of her learning and inspiration.   She loves to travel, and hope to do more traveling when the pandemic is over.

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Antonis Tsarouchas

Antonis Tsarouchas is  26 years old and he is from Greece, living in Germany. About Black Lives matter movement he said: “I can relate to this subject, cause living as a migrant, your friends your cycle are people like me. Black or White, doesn’t matter, the society see you like a tool, like a number. But we are Dreamers and we want what everyone has Peace.

Iris H.J. Houkes

Iris H.J. Houkes is an artist from Netherlands. From her background as a graphic designer, she strives to find a certain balance between a conceptual idea and the typographic translation of this idea. She finds her inspiration within the ‘current zeitgeist’ in which everything she sees, reads or hears can be a source of inspiration which she converts into a graphic translation. Either on print, canvas or textile. In 2016 she started the label ‘wonderful’ which offers sustainable & fairly made t-shirts and sweaters
with prints. Prints to trigger us to think. About what we wear, what we do and what choices we make. Not always in our face, but always with a subtle ethical or political message.

Marieke Vreeken

Marieke Vreeken is a dutch Human rights lawyer and humanitarian advocate living in Belgium these days. Her deeply rooted desire to fight injustice and advocate for those in need has taken her around the world, from grassroots human rights protests in Uganda to the United Nations Head quarters in New York. She have 7+ years of experience in advocacy, multilateral diplomacy and legal research. Her areas of expertise include human rights, rule of law strengthening humanitarian aid and animal welfare.

Johanna Goodman

New York-based Artist, Johanna Goodman studied at Boston University’s School of Fine Art (Boston) and Parsons School of Design (NYC) where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration in 1992.
She has been a freelance Illustrator ever since. Her work has garnered awards from The Society of Publication Design, American Illustration, and Communication Arts.

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Clients include: The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York, The Museum of Natural History, The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame,The Sidney Hillman Foundation, The Paley Center for Media, West Elm, truTV, Time Magazine, Rolling Stone, Le Monde, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Bust Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine and The Progressive among many others.

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Antonius Kho

Antonius Kho was born in Klaten, Java and later pursued his artistic study in Cologne, Germany. He chooses mask as his subject matter and explores it to the full. The result is array of masks that never represent anyone, or for that matter, anything. The mask is in his paintings. The mask has shed its from original intentions, replaced by his own personal reflections.

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It lost its intended functions as cover for someone or symbol of something. Masks are utilized as the seed for his creativity, as a visual concept before he takes up the brush. Even when Kho could presents Petruk (a Javanese puppet character), he delves deeper into the mask’s basic existence, never Petruk at its face-value.
While the mask is not seen as who anymore. Kho”s explorations on masks has reached into its darkest nock and crannies. Every mask he finds, approaches and then explores accumulated into a creation. A million mask drops from his brush. Only the essence spreads over his canvas.
“Masks in my hand is power. A magistrate”, he said once
The fact that mask are able to penetrate Kho’s basest fantasy and imagination is heavily influenced by its diversity, ubiquitous and historical complexity. Indonesia proved to be a fertile ground for him for her extraordinarily rich heritage of masks. Thousands of mask has been created for a multitudinous of functions everywhere, from west Sumatra through to Irian Jaya east, since the beginning of time.
And yes, this challenges Kho to always create unique works. Which is his.

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Roman Senapati

Roman Senapati (Bikash Chandra Senapati ) was born in India in 1988, He completed his art educations MFA In graphics from IndIra Kala SangeetVishwavidyalaya, Khairagarh,Chhattisgarh and BFA from Karnataka ChitrakalaParishath, Bangalore
specialized in painting. He has attended several exhibitions internationally and won many awards.

Ver Ikeseh

Ver Ikeseh has over ten years of experience as a practicing visual artist. He earned a Bachelor of Art in Fine Arts from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria Nigeria. He also has two art related Master Degrees from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan Nigeria and Leiden University, Leiden the Netherlands.

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 He uses African fabrics to create paintings on canvas which he has exhibited in Nigeria, the Netherlands and the UK. His undergraduate thesis was an analysis of the wall murals within the Ahmadu Bello University,  Zaria. This and his subsequent research on murals have continued to propel his passion to impact lives and minds by transforming dilapidated structures in slums with his colorful murals.  Recently, he launched the “I Can 100 Project” where he aims at painting murals in 100 communities across Africa. He has currently painted some communities in Nigeria and Ghana, and is working tirelessly to meet this target in 2 years. This campaign earned him a spot as one of the 25 AYADA Lab 2019 finalists which is supported by Goethe Institute, Alliance Français and iSpace Ghana.  Currently, he paints mural commissions, and the proceeds are used to fund his “I Can 100” community mural project.

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Jean René Leblanc

Jean René Leblanc is an Associate Professor of Digital Arts at the University of Calgary in Canada. He is president of the board of Emmedia Gallery and Production Society and co-founder of the Sensorium Lab a cross-disciplinary research group focusing on research that develops systems of interaction that encourage kinaesthetic perception and interpretation.

Omarcca

Omarcca is a self-taught visual artist, serigraphic printer, he seeks in his art to mix concepts and subjectivity, and with the readings of his reflective traces and poetic propositions, He constructs the images proposed in an expressionist way. In my work, drawing is not a mere creative laboratory or process, in reality it is art itself.He develops with paper and paints, artistic prints, where he pours his dreams, expectations and social criticisms, in this way he approaches the complex and playful themes of each of my works with the public.

Hosna Karnama

Iranian born Artist Hosna Karnama graduated with a Masters in visual art / The subject matter of her works are inspired by war with a focus on mythical features and an insider’s view of the role of war in her life / Her expression of conflict.

tension and pain aims to convey the constant battle of good and evil / She believes the real war happens inside our hearts and minds/ She is working on two series of paintings highlighting the conflict between the calligraphy, mythological content of Shahnameh and Gilgamesh and the other one is the contrast between contemporary art and Iranian calligraphy.

Suleyman Wellings Longmore

Suleyman-Wellings-Longmore is an Caribbean and African based in  Paris and Berlin.The colour black connotes both presence and absence, before and after: existence and non-existence. Extrapolating this paradox to race, we arrive at a nuance of Black identity – being simultaneously invisible and conspicuous to the world around you.

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By manipulating the texture and depth of paintings and sculptures, this abstract figurative series explores the relationship between Black identity and congruence with, or resistance against, one’s environment, and the values and expectations that such surroundings impose: B[L]ackground.

Seeking to redress an imbalance of diversity in art whilst also inspired by the series’ core issues, Suleyman has drawn upon his own experiences as a man of Caribbean and African heritage to examine the central themes of race, selfhood, fatalism, and self-fulfillment in the context of gender, sexuality, and parenthood. Reflections on race relations and racial identity in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death and the heightened focus on anti-Black racism have also inspired his recent pieces.

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Swarup Manna

Swarup Manna is an Indian artist who got born in 1996.  He believes that In Current time people forget to raise their voice against depravity. So in this series of work he wanted to focus on the people who are unable to  voice the protest against depravity, which leads to arise some questions but that is no use as the mouth is stitched by the needle of uncertainty.

Soimadou Ali Ibrahim

Soimadou Ali Ibrahim (French, b. 1989) explores and re-examines family memories by representing cherished moments of life in Itsinkoudi, a remote village in Ngazidja the biggest island of the Comoros archipelago, where Ibrahim’s grand mother and most of his family still live.

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Growing up in Comoros until 10 years old influenced his perspective on socioeconomic, the strength of community and the complexities of race, and has triggered Ibrahim to question his own Frenchness in relation to the island’s colonial past.
These artworks are adapted from archival photographs, pictures taken by the artist himself, memories, and imagination. They each portray the importance of family, of life itself and hope, illustrated by straight lines, bold gestural strokes and bright colors inspired by his studies in graphic design and art. In essence, Ibrahim uses the practice of painting as a way to reconnect and engage with his roots.
Ibrahim currently resides in London but from the age of 10 and throughout his adolescent life he lived in a small town in Brittany, France. It is not only his personal experiences but also those of the African diaspora that provide him with a narrative to share and explore how it is to be black and navigate the environment you are in.

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Kate Bortsova

Kate Bortsova is a visual artist who believes: I think that art means confrontation between life and aesthetics. It is a hard struggle for both of them. Ant the understanding of art is one of the main artist’s working specialties.

I as an artist believe that keeping up with ephemera fashion shall not serve as a factor of art work modernity. Let me remind you that the way of human civilization development has a form of curl. Everything new is a well-forgotten old but at the new curve of civilization.

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A statement that human shall study and develop oneself for a whole life impresses me very much. I consider that a talented person is obliged to find out something new throughout its life, to reach new more tops. If it ceases to develop oneself it will have nothing more to say to the audience by means of its works. At the present moment I am expanding my conception of the theoretical aspect of art and therefore I harmonize all the aspects of the talented person of mine.

Throughout the whole life a talented person shall pass a difficult and even a suffering way which may be related either to external events or to comprehension of the individual self. An artist creates its own image of the world and therefore it correlates its imaginations with the common laws of universe. We know that each way shall lead to the temple but the temple may be erected inside the human’s soul.

When I work I do not think whether someone will like my work and will buy it. I get delighted by the process itself, by the stages of creating a picture, by the way of implementation of my virtual idea. I cannot detach any certain image of the admirer of my works. I think everyone may find something close thereto among my works.

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Matigan Artists

Sylvain Souklaye is a French performance and installation artist obsessed with sampling.intimacies about people who don’t belong to a determinate identity, gender, class, colour or nationality.

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His performances are a collage of individual memories which are relived for the audience. Self-taught, he began performing with vandalism in Lyon (France) and then intimate happenings, radio experimentation and action poetry. He later developed digital art installations using field recording techniques as a narrative layer while pursuing his writer’s path. Among his best known pieces are la blackline, a five-year durational radio performance about socioeconomic survival and urban absurdity, le déserteur a digital art installation dwelling on the notion of abandonment, TME a docudrama performance exploring self-inflicted amnesia and resilience and Migrant Market a remake of the slave market updated for the uber economy. Sylvain Souklaye’s methods characteristically involve intense physical acts as well as the use of unsettling intimacy.

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Barry Despenza: You will find that his work is centered on power structures that underlie the perception of what it means to be visually stimulated. He uses soundscapes as a canvas while video is used as the brush to complete the piece.By removing all aesthetic differences and exposing the viewer he creates a spectacle curated by human experience.

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This is successful by expanding on his auditory lens to include samples, found footage and original compositions through the use of DAW and moving images.  He is able to morph sound and music together to a larger concealed language in which we associate with memory, textures and storytelling with a heavy emphasis on experimental techniques.

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Artist: Alice Mason is an emerging urban photographer with a strong focus on documenting everyday moments, from protests to commutes. Having studied film at university she has experimented with different mediums before finding a passion for photography.

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Believing there is great beauty to be found in everyday life, none of her photos are staged and instead capture organic scenes of life in the capital. With the majority of her photography being in black and white she pays a lot of attention to light and shade and the roles they play in creating powerful images.

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Maundy Mitchell is an internationally acclaimed portrait photographer and Associate Level Photographer with The Portrait Masters International. She runs her portrait studio, Maundy Mitchell Photography, in Plymouth, NH.

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Her photos have been published in magazines, on billboards, and online nationally and internationally. She is a member of the Professional Photographer’s Association of America, the National Association of Professional Child Photographers, the Magic Hour Foundation Photographer Network, and the Women’s Caucus for Art in New Hampshire. She holds a trademark on the phrase, “People are Beautiful”, which is her core belief as a photographer.

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Jota Ramos is born  in 1989 , Jota is a black queer artist from Brazil currently living in Berlin.

 

 

 

 

Tzen Xing is a Chinese American woman photographer and an activist who got born in 1968, who has been involved in the struggle for justice and equality for many years. She is thankful whenever she has the opportunities to combine her activism and photography, like the Black Lives Matter protests this year.   She is mainly a self-taught street photographer.

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The streets and people are the source of her learning and inspiration.   She loves to travel, and hope to do more traveling when the pandemic is over.

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Antonis Tsarouchas is  26 years old and he is from Greece, living in Germany. About Black Lives matter movement he said: “I can relate to this subject, cause living as a migrant, your friends your cycle are people like me. Black or White, doesn’t matter, the society see you like a tool, like a number. But we are Dreamers and we want what everyone has. Peace.

 

 

 

New York-based Artist, Johanna Goodman studied at Boston University’s School of Fine Art (Boston) and Parsons School of Design (NYC) where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration in 1992.
She has been a freelance Illustrator ever since. Her work has garnered awards from The Society of Publication Design, American Illustration, and Communication Arts.

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Clients include: The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York, The Museum of Natural History, The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame,The Sidney Hillman Foundation, The Paley Center for Media, West Elm, truTV, Time Magazine, Rolling Stone, Le Monde, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Bust Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine and The Progressive among many others.

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Antonius Kho was born in Klaten, Java and later pursued his artistic study in Cologne, Germany. He chooses mask as his subject matter and explores it to the full. The result is array of masks that never represent anyone, or for that matter, anything. The mask is in his paintings. The mask has shed its from original intentions, replaced by his own personal reflections.

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It lost its intended functions as cover for someone or symbol of something. Masks are utilized as the seed for his creativity, as a visual concept before he takes up the brush. Even when Kho could presents Petruk (a Javanese puppet character), he delves deeper into the mask’s basic existence, never Petruk at its face-value.
While the mask is not seen as who anymore. Kho”s explorations on masks has reached into its darkest nock and crannies. Every mask he finds, approaches and then explores accumulated into a creation. A million mask drops from his brush. Only the essence spreads over his canvas.
“Masks in my hand is power. A magistrate”, he said once
The fact that mask are able to penetrate Kho’s basest fantasy and imagination is heavily influenced by its diversity, ubiquitous and historical complexity. Indonesia proved to be a fertile ground for him for her extraordinarily rich heritage of masks. Thousands of mask has been created for a multitudinous of functions everywhere, from west Sumatra through to Irian Jaya east, since the beginning of time.
And yes, this challenges Kho to always create unique works. Which is his.

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Roman Senapati (Bikash Chandra Senapati ) was born in India in 1988, He completed his art educations MFA In graphics from IndIra Kala SangeetVishwavidyalaya, Khairagarh,Chhattisgarh and BFA from Karnataka ChitrakalaParishath, Bangalore
specialized in painting. He has attended several exhibitions internationally and won many awards.

 

 

 

Ver Ikeseh has over ten years of experience as a practicing visual artist. He earned a Bachelor of Art in Fine Arts from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria Nigeria. He also has two art related Master Degrees from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan Nigeria and Leiden University, Leiden the Netherlands.

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 He uses African fabrics to create paintings on canvas which he has exhibited in Nigeria, the Netherlands and the UK. His undergraduate thesis was an analysis of the wall murals within the Ahmadu Bello University,  Zaria. This and his subsequent research on murals have continued to propel his passion to impact lives and minds by transforming dilapidated structures in slums with his colorful murals.  Recently, he launched the “I Can 100 Project” where he aims at painting murals in 100 communities across Africa. He has currently painted some communities in Nigeria and Ghana, and is working tirelessly to meet this target in 2 years. This campaign earned him a spot as one of the 25 AYADA Lab 2019 finalists which is supported by Goethe Institute, Alliance Français and iSpace Ghana.  Currently, he paints mural commissions, and the proceeds are used to fund his “I Can 100” community mural project.

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Jean-René Leblanc is an Associate Professor of Digital Arts at the University of Calgary in Canada. He is president of the board of Emmedia Gallery and Production Society and co-founder of the Sensorium Lab a cross-disciplinary research group focusing on research that develops systems of interaction that encourage kinaesthetic perception and interpretation.

 

 

 

Omarcca is a self-taught visual artist, serigraphic printer, he seeks in his art to mix concepts and subjectivity, and with the readings of his reflective traces and poetic propositions, He constructs the images proposed in an expressionist way. In my work, drawing is not a mere creative laboratory or process, in reality it is art itself.He develops with paper and paints, artistic prints, where he pours his dreams, expectations and social criticisms, in this way he approaches the complex and playful themes of each of my works with the public.

 

 

Iranian born Artist Hosna graduated with a Masters in visual art / The subject matter of her works are inspired by war with a focus on mythical features and an insider’s view of the role of war in her life / Her expression of conflict.

tension and pain aims to convey the constant battle of good and evil / She believes the real war happens inside our hearts and minds/ She is working on two series of paintings highlighting the conflict between the calligraphy, mythological content of Shahnameh and Gilgamesh and the other one is the contrast between contemporary art and Iranian calligraphy.

Wellings-Longmore, Suleyman is an Caribbean and African based in  Paris and Berlin.The colour black connotes both presence and absence, before and after: existence and non-existence. Extrapolating this paradox to race, we arrive at a nuance of Black identity – being simultaneously invisible and conspicuous to the world around you.

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By manipulating the texture and depth of paintings and sculptures, this abstract figurative series explores the relationship between Black identity and congruence with, or resistance against, one’s environment, and the values and expectations that such surroundings impose: B[L]ackground.

Seeking to redress an imbalance of diversity in art whilst also inspired by the series’ core issues, Suleyman has drawn upon his own experiences as a man of Caribbean and African heritage to examine the central themes of race, selfhood, fatalism, and self-fulfillment in the context of gender, sexuality, and parenthood. Reflections on race relations and racial identity in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death and the heightened focus on anti-Black racism have also inspired his recent pieces.

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Swarup Manna is an Indian artist who got born in 1996.  He believes that In Current time people forget to raise their voice against depravity. So in this series of work he wanted to focus on the people who are unable to  voice the protest against depravity, which leads to arise some questions but that is no use as the mouth is stitched by the needle of uncertainty.

 

 

 

Soimadou Ali Ibrahim (French, b. 1989) explores and re-examines family memories by representing cherished moments of life in Itsinkoudi, a remote village in Ngazidja the biggest island of the Comoros archipelago, where Ibrahim’s grand mother and most of his family still live.

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Growing up in Comoros until 10 years old influenced his perspective on socioeconomic, the strength of community and the complexities of race, and has triggered Ibrahim to question his own Frenchness in relation to the island’s colonial past.
These artworks are adapted from archival photographs, pictures taken by the artist himself, memories, and imagination. They each portray the importance of family, of life itself and hope, illustrated by straight lines, bold gestural strokes and bright colours inspired by his studies in graphic design and art. In essence, Ibrahim uses the practice of painting as a way to reconnect and engage with his roots.
Ibrahim currently resides in London but from the age of 10 and throughout his adolescent life he lived in a small town in Brittany, France. It is not only his personal experiences but also those of the African diaspora that provide him with a narrative to share and explore how it is to be black and navigate the environment you are in.

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Kate Bortsova is a visual artist who believes: I think that art means confrontation between life and aesthetics. It is a hard struggle for both of them. Ant the understanding of art is one of the main artist’s working specialties.

I as an artist believe that keeping up with ephemera fashion shall not serve as a factor of art work modernity. Let me remind you that the way of human civilization development has a form of curl. Everything new is a well-forgotten old but at the new curve of civilization.

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A statement that human shall study and develop oneself for a whole life impresses me very much. I consider that a talented person is obliged to find out something new throughout its life, to reach new more tops. If it ceases to develop oneself it will have nothing more to say to the audience by means of its works. At the present moment I am expanding my conception of the theoretical aspect of art and therefore I harmonize all the aspects of the talented person of mine.

Throughout the whole life a talented person shall pass a difficult and even a suffering way which may be related either to external events or to comprehension of the individual self. An artist creates its own image of the world and therefore it correlates its imaginations with the common laws of universe. We know that each way shall lead to the temple but the temple may be erected inside the human’s soul.

When I work I do not think whether someone will like my work and will buy it. I get delighted by the process itself, by the stages of creating a picture, by the way of implementation of my virtual idea. I cannot detach any certain image of the admirer of my works. I think everyone may find something close thereto among my works.

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Iris H.J. Houkes is an artist from Netherlands. From her background as a graphic designer, she strives to find a certain balance between a conceptual idea and the typographic translation of this idea. She finds her inspiration within the ‘current zeitgeist’ in which everything she sees, reads or hears can be a source of inspiration which she converts into a graphic translation. Either on print, canvas or textile. In 2016 she started the label ‘wonderful’ which offers sustainable & fairly made t-shirts and sweaters
with prints. Prints to trigger us to think. About what we wear, what we do and what choices we make. Not always in our face, but always with a subtle ethical or political message.

Marieke Vreeken is a dutch Human rights lawyer and humanitarian advocate living in Belgium these days. Her deeply rooted desire to fight injustice and advocate for those in need has taken her around the world, from grassroots human rights protests in Uganda to the United Nations Head quarters in New York. She have 7+ years of experience in advocacy, multilateral diplomacy and legal research. Her areas of expertise include human rights, rule of law strengthening humanitarian aid and animal welfare.

Upcoming Exhibitions

Matigan is having an exhibition in Berlin this summer. This exhibition will feature various artists working in the mediums of photography, painting, drawing, printmaking, and digital art. Time and date are to be determined, stay tuned for details.

Art is Border Free, So are Artists

Art is Border Free, So are Artists was an exhibition at Matigan Art And Cultural Center in Vienna in the Spring of 2018. True to the exhibition title, this show featured artists from all over the world. Below are select of the work featured in this exhibition.

Artists Featured in Exhibition

Ali Yegane

Arezoo Abdolmaleki

Azar Nooshin

Fateme Mozafari

Fateme Sarvarpoor

Firooze Barzegari

Khorshid Michaeli

Kobra (Malihe) Abedi

Maryam al Sadat Abtahi

Nahid Safari

Najme Sarmad

Nasrin Bosak

Nooshin Mahmoodi

Sajede Emami

Saman Moarref

Shahrzad Farazi

Sara Abasiniya

Apply For Our Exhibitions Matigan Art And Cultural Center

Solo and Group Exhibitions

If you are interested in applying for a solo or group exhibition, please contact us via email at Matigan.art@gmail.com. Please specify in the subject if you are applying for a “Solo Exhibition” or a “Group Exhibition”. In the body of the email, provide us with detailed information of who is applying for an exhibition and share with us your art and your ideas for a possibility to collaborate with Matigan.

Virtual Exhibitions

The Matigan is now welcoming submissions for its upcoming online exhibition. This exhibition will feature works by artists in the mediums of painting, drawing, installation art, printmaking, performance, photography, digital art, sculpture, video, mixed media, textiles, and sculpture of any medium. If you are interested in contributing to our online exhibition, please contact us via email at Matigan.art@gmail.com. In the subject of the email, please write “Virtual Exhibition”. In the body of the email, provide us with detailed information of who is applying for the virtual exhibition and share with us your art and your ideas for a possibility to not only collaborate with Matigan, but to sell your art worldwide.

A View Of Eastern Art

A View Of Eastern Art“

A View Of Eastern Art

is an exhibition that  hosted and organized by the Matigan featuring the works of emerging artists from Middle East. The exhibition opened on Thursday November 8th 2018 ran n until November 14th 2018.