Capturing the current Zeitgeist: Rulton Fyder in dialogue with conceptual art contemporaries

Juni 12 - 27, 2021
  • Rulton Fyder

  • When there’s informational discrepancy between the two worlds, there is time for phenomenal art to happen that will capture the time and emotion of the present.

  • The anonymous artist Rulton Fyder is best known for his recontextualisation of other artists’ works to capture time and emotion in the NFT art realm. Fyder utilizes the sense of familiarity elicited from known significant works in the contemporary art world to add new conceptual layer and imagery and create the works in the NFT realm to create completely new works that document and archive our current society and times while having the artist’s self-inquisitive journey in the rapidly advancing digital age, characterized by the endless circulation, reshuffling, remixing and exchange of ideas.

  • Rulton Fyder, FAMILIARITY IN YOUR NFT, 2021

    Rulton Fyder

    FAMILIARITY IN YOUR NFT, 2021
    Acrylic on printed canvas.
    54 3/4 x 60 5/8 in
    139 x 154 cm
  • ALL MEN ARE ENEMIES. ALL ANIMALS ARE COMRADES.

  • - George Orwell (in Animal Farm)

  • Rulton Fyder, UNTITLED (NOOB APE), 2021

    Rulton Fyder

    UNTITLED (NOOB APE), 2021
    DFA inkjetprint on photopaper
    83 x 47 3/8 x 1 in
    210.8 x 120.3 x 2.5 cm
    Edition of 5 plus 1 artist's proof
  • Rulton Fyder, UNTITLED (HODL APE), 2021

    Rulton Fyder

    UNTITLED (HODL APE), 2021
    DFA inkjetprint on photopaper
    83 x 47 3/8 x 1 in
    210.8 x 120.3 x 2.5 cm
    Edition of 5 plus 1 artist's proof
  • Rulton Fyder, UNTITLED (REKT APE), 2021

    Rulton Fyder

    UNTITLED (REKT APE), 2021
    DFA inkjetprint on photopaper
    83 x 47 3/8 x 1 in
    210.8 x 120.3 x 2.5 cm
    Edition of 5 plus 1 artist's proof
  • Oral History Interview with NFT ARTFORUM

    by Emily Cobel
  • Rulton Fyder, FOMO, 2021

    Rulton Fyder

    FOMO, 2021
    Acrylic on alu-dibond
    96 x 49 7/8 in
    243.8 x 126.7 cm
  • Through Fyder’s artistic exploration, he has engaged in dialogues with works from his contemporaries and past phenomenal artists who have left marks in the history of conceptual art. Fyder creates works that incorporated found artworks and images from the past key historical events; structuring works around spontaneous relationships between elements and through the work leave ample hints for the viewers to decipher the artist’s intentions.

  • Rulton Fyder, Tips for Artists Who Want to Sell NFT, 2021

    Rulton Fyder

    Tips for Artists Who Want to Sell NFT, 2021
    Acrylic on printed canvas
    68 1/4 x 56 1/2 x 1 1/2 in
    173.5 x 143.5 x 3.8 cm
  • John Baldessari, Equestrian (Flesh) in Brackets with Orange Showdown, 1992

    John Baldessari

    Equestrian (Flesh) in Brackets with Orange Showdown, 1992
    (i) Acrylic on black and white photograph, in artist's frame
    (ii) Acrylic on colour photograph, in artist's frame
    (i) 48.25 x 43 in. (122.5 x 109.4 cm)
    (ii) 32 x 53 in. (81.2 x 134.9 cm)

    overall: 68.5 x 96 in. (174 x 244.3 cm)
  • By applying his profound understanding of the complexity and intricacy in the history of conceptual art, Fyder’s works are of a distinctive artistic lens filled with echoes of other masters’ lens yet through the sharp and acute commentary on the present societal and technological phenomenon, that is undeniably his own.

  • Rulton Fyder, UNTITLED (OUR CRYPTOS ARE LIQUID), 2021

    Rulton Fyder

    UNTITLED (OUR CRYPTOS ARE LIQUID), 2021
    Printed Vinyl
    98 3/8 x 97 7/8 in
    250 x 248.5 cm
    Edition of 5 plus 1 artist's proof
  • Rulton Fyder, LAMBO, 2021

    Rulton Fyder

    LAMBO, 2021
    Acrylic on printed canvas
    96 x 82 1/2 in
    243.8 x 209.6 cm
  • Rulton Fyder, UP AND DOWN, 2021

    Rulton Fyder

    UP AND DOWN, 2021
    Acrylic on printed canvas
    96 x 82 1/2 in
    243.8 x 209.6 cm
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