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SCOPE Art Fair Miami w. Light Art and Monolith Gallery

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What a treat to see “Summer with Nemo” exhibited at maxi size at the SCOPE Art Fair during Art Basel Miami!
An incredible display courtesy of Light.Art, Monolith Gallery, MetaJungleNFT, GuyNorcal and Jean-Michel Paillon.

 

Art Basel Miami w. The Royal House of Medici

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I’m proud and honoured to announce that I’ll be part of the inaugural NFT collection of The Royal House of Medici during Art Basel Miami with my newest artwork “Jupiter and Io”, created specifically for this event.

Inspired by Coreggio’s painting of Jupiter’s secretive seduction of Io, priestess of Juno and daughter of the river god Inachus, this work offers a more female-empowering and sensitive interpretation of the story.

Here Io is purposefully depicted on her own, a figure of contemplation and strength, mesmerized and drawn by the allure of the dark clouds (representing a stormy and possibly illegal love).

As a subtle counter-note, the dark cat appears at her side, both witchy protector and a symbol of emotional strength and female sexuality.

Where: Exclusive exhibition at Kimpton Surfcomber Hotel, Miami, open to the public from Nov 30 – Dec 04
Website: https://royalhouseofmedici.com/

Rome Art Week, Mecenate Art Gallery

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I’m incredibly excited to announce that I’ll be exhibiting “Rite de passage” as part of the Immutably Art exhibition at the Mecenate Fine Art Gallery during Rome Art Week. The exhibition features a score of incredible artists and friends like Jenni Pasanen, Andrés Zigelboim, Laurence Fuller, Claire Silver, DVKtheartist and more.

When: Rome Art Week 25 -29 October, 2022

Where: Via Benzoni 22, Rome

Curated by August Rosedale and DVKtheartist

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New York Fashion Week w. The Royal House of Medici

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Such an honour to be part of the launch of The Royal House of Medici entry into web3 and the world of blockchain art.

“Heart’s Whisper” was exhibited as part of the UNREVEALED New York Fashion Week Gathering with The Royal House of Medici™ & The Gold Mask Society

“The Royal House of Medici™ will usher in the Digital Renaissance with contemporary artists, both digital and physical, invited to interpret classic works and the philosophy of Humanism as NFTs.” – Ottaviano de’ Medici, The Grand Duke of  Tuscany, Chairman and Co-Founder, The Royal House of Medici™.

 

Link: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/unrevealed-to-host-new-york-fashion-week-gathering-with-the-royal-house-of-medici–the-gold-mask-society-301619691.html

Wonder Fair 4.0 – NFTNYC

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I was super grateful to have two works from my series “Dryads – The tree-bound” included in The Wonder Fair 4.0 @wonderfair_art gallery popup event during NFTNYC.
The event “Natural Intelligence” was a 4-day, immersive, outdoor art experience, featuring the works of 40+ digital artists, live music and DJ sets, speaker panels, performance and live art, experimental programming and more across Waterline Square.
An altogether amazing event, with the featured artworks shown on a 32-foot stadium screen!
Where: Waterline Square Park, 20.-23. June
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Complicit exhibition – NFTNYC

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Very proud that “Morpheus’ spell” was exhibited at the Complicit x NFTNYC, a curated NFT photography exhibition organized by Matthew Morocco.
Wednesday 22th June, 6 – 9pm

American Copper Buildings Sky Bridge

East Tower

626 1st Ave NYC

18th Julia Margaret Cameron Award

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I was so lucky to have both a series and two single works be awarded an honourable mention in the Fine Art section of the 18th Julia Margaret Cameron Award (part of the Worldwide Photography Gala Awards). It’s always such an honour to have my work highlighted like this.

“Saint Agnes’ Flower” and “Ophelia’s dream” both won as single images, and my series “Preserved Beauty” won in the series category.

British Journal of Photography – Edition365

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I’m finally allowed to tell that I’m super proud to have been selected a winner of the British Journal of Photography project ‘Edition 365’ in collaboration with newart.city!!

My work “Eye of the beholder” will be represented in the exhibition: “Edition365: A portrait of the year that changed everything”.

About Edition 365

Traversing tales of love, loss, hope, and solidarity, the exhibition is a once-in-a-century time-capsule, conceived to stand as a historical reference for decades to come.
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All the works in Edition 365 was created between 11/3/20 (when WHO announced a global pandemic) and 10/3/21;365 days embodied in 365 works of art, captured by a vast and dynamic array of both established and emerging creators, from all around the world.
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Each individual work included in Edition365 will be available to own as an NFT. One collector will also be able to own the entire virtual exhibition itself.
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My work is presented in Room 1.

17th Julia Margaret Cameron Award

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So this is exciting! My in-progress series “Dryads – The Treebound” has just won an honourable mention in the Fine Art section of the 17th Julia Margaret Cameron Award (part of the Worldwide Photography Gala Awards). It’s such an honour to have it highlighted like this. Huge thanks to FotoNostrum and the jurors Laura Noble of L A Noble Gallery and online gallerist Jennie Rickets!

Link to larger images in my portfolio: https://www.mariafynsknorup.com/works/dryads-the-treebound
About the series: The ancient Greek stories of the dryads are full of drama, beauty and anthropomorphised ways of explaining the mythical or inexplicable in the natural world. The dryads were honoured as semi-godlike female spirits inhabiting trees and groves, often bound in such a way that their life itself was tied to the life of the trees.
Creating this project around the dryads is for me a way to lift the stories into our time, and remind people that our lives are equally bound to the life of the natural world. We as humans need to wake up to the fact that we have become reliant upon natural resources to the point of destroying the foundation of what we need to live.
I wish to emphasise the mysterious, sometimes slightly eerie sensation you experience within older forests – when it feels like everything is alive, and someone might be watching.
The aim is to create a range of scenes from the peaceful or idyllic to the dark and haunted, drawing inspiration from classical paintings of the nymphs, as well as from descriptions in Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” and texts from the Greek Mythology.