ZANCAN
Zancan, generative artist from Bordeaux, France, has been both a painter and a programmer for four decades. By synergizing his former practice as a traditional artist working with oil paint with the computer code medium, he enlightened the graphical possibilities of a « figurative-generative » art genre. His digital artworks and resulting pen-plotter drawings, which rely on technology both to exist and to be traded, are his inspiration to remind us of the necessary bond between man and nature, raising attention through visual symbolism about environmental and social matters.
Zancan's series "Garden, Monoliths" and "The Lushtemples", that focus on rendering natural shapes with mathematical equations and programming code, have become the top-selling collections on the blockchain Tezos.
Analog
Art On-Chain
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Post-Garden Pop Drama, 2023
Articles
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THE FX(HASH) CONVERSATION | CIPHRD AND ZANCAN
The founder of fx(hash) and the revered generative artist discuss the art of nature and the platform’s bright future. The interview was published by Right Click Save.
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KUMONO SHINGOU BY ZANCAN
This was part of an ongoing series of articles that released was digitally in May 2023. They were first published in the print edition of the Bright Moments Quarterly that was distributed at Bright Moments Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan.
Exhibitions
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ART SALON: NODE TO NODE, PARIS, 2023
In the heart of Paris, we presented Art Salon ‘Node to Node’, which brought together paintings, plotter drawings, post-photography, and site-specific installations by various artists.
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SHELTERED LANDSCAPES, RIFUGIO DIGITALE, 2023
For Sheltered Landscapes at Rifugio Digitale, Italy, the artist zancan has chosen to compose a naturalistic landscape coded along sixteen monitors.
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ORGANIC MATR, ARTMATR, 2023
"ORGANIC MATR" was an exhibition between Zancan and Artmatr in Brooklyn. The show explores the fusion of digital and physical art through robotics-assisted painting.
