So, we took a few minutes to sit down with Andy and get the scoop on ARTSPROJEKT directly from the source.
Can you tell us what ARTSPROJEKT is all about?
ARTSPROJEKT is about freedom of expression.
Artsprojekt is an artist management, exhibition, and commerce company that supports emerging artists in all fine art and commercial genres to develop careers and navigate the murky waters of the institutional art world. Artsprojekt hosts solo and group art exhibitions curated by some of the best artists in the world, creates artists/brand collaborations, and enables creatives to utilize an infinite on-demand product platform to monetize their art and images. Artists use any or every piece of art they have ever made to create limited or open multiples of products, without ever producing and holding any inventory. We handle everything: taking the order/payment, producing/shipping product, and customer service. Artists and brands just make art, post it to the gallery, and get paid. It’s a revolutionary, disruptive technology, and combined with the artist’s deep content. And effectively liberates the visual artist from an archaic retail system.
Popular culture demands the ability to customize every aspect of life. Today's individual can use iTunes to publish or completely customize music selection, YouTube to publish and share video content online, and other technologies to organize and customize experience.
In the arts, limited and special edition products have the changed the landscape of retail. People want a product that no one else has, but that’s been virtually impossible until now. Artsprojekt combines the artistic integrity of limited edition and special edition products with on-demand manufacturing to push truly unique ideas and mastery of techinique to the surface and allow the artists and fans to interact. From the highest quality giclees to apparel to postage stamps to skateboard decks, Artsprojekt and its partner platform are expanding the product offering every day.
In the history of man, technological advancement have consistently prevailed as a primary cause of cultural change. A major change in the delivery of art and products is happening now.
So, visitors to artsprojekt .com will have an opportunity purchase art from AP artists directly from the site?
Yes, from the curated exhibitions and in the fine art galleries collectors will find amazing work from a range of established and emerging artists in many different generes including Painting, Illustration, Photography, Comics / Graphic Novels, Animation / Manga, Street Arts / Graffiti, Graphic Design, Character / Toy Designers, Digital Arts, Film / Video and Fine Arts (Painting, Etching, Printmaking, Sculpting, Collage, Conceptual, and all other 2-D and 3-D fine art).
Is AP only going to be available for artists that are currently getting big gallery shows?
Though we do collaborate and feature world famous artists, Artsprojekt also nurtures the emergence of new creativity. Artists can apply online to be included in Art and Design Galleries.
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