The art of psychedelics has always had an important spot within the art world. The works of this kind while they may appear at first, to be simple however, there’s more to the story behind their creations. Creators make amazing works of art that is based on their own feelings as well as their personal experiences and the best methods.
Contemporary artists are trying to communicate more than just images of hallucinations, but also surreal, abstract scenes. They paint with meaning, stories emotional responses. We will today talk about one of the more renowned NFT artist, Victor Mosquera, who is a part of his portfolio and has collaborated in a variety of well-known publications and famous personalities.
Who is Victor Mosquera?
Victor Mosquera is a well-known artist in the art world and a digital artist with an extensive history of success. Born in the year 1990, he and is a native of Colombian heritage, then then relocated into Vancouver, Canada.
The artist, who rose from being a full-time artists to becoming a global famous persona, collaborated with some of the most renowned names and brands He turned the notion of psychedelic on its head. Today, he is an extremely well-known musicians within the NFT space.
Two high-profile events:
One of his best experiences was working with Ubisoft in the visuals department in Watchdogs Legion, FarCry 5 and Starlink,
collaborated in conjunction with Willo Perron for visual effects to Kid Cudi’s appearance at Coachella in 2019.
Collaboration on behalf of The New York Times on the cover of their Rabbit Hole podcast, Universal Music Group, Interscope Records, Scientific American, Passion Pictures, Tor Books, Heavy Metal Magazine, G. Jones and Dirty Heads among others.
His art was displayed and sold successfully at most renowned auctions in the world, Christie’s and Sotheby’s.
The journey of creativity that led to Victor Mosquera: from work at Ubisoft to NFT
Victor Mosquera began his creative career by receiving a profile education in the arts field however, it was an incomplete one. From 2007 to 2010 Victor Mosquera studied at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia, Bogota). He was a student for five years, 3 years before dropping out. His choice was a significant one. He was aware of what he wanted to dedicate the rest of his time to.
He’s always been a lover of and favored the traditional methods of fine art, which includes watercolors, oil paints gouache, and canvases. When I first started to work in digital 2D art from when I first started working in game development studios and companies.
Victor Mosquera started his creative journey with a variety of video and game development studios: One Pixel Brush, Director Films and small companies. In 2013, the studio invited him to join Ubisoft Toronto. It was Ubisoft Toronto that became the center that Victor Mosquera began to actively create in the area of animation and digital drawing. At the time the company was one of the leaders in the field of game development. He was in the job of a concept artist, and was involved not just with illustrations of places however, he also worked on a range of characters.
In the meantime He was also enthused by digital art, and mastered animation and created his own distinctive, identifiable style.
The artist has an impressive record of success, having collaborated on numerous big stars and projects:
This year, Coachella will work 2019 to study its visual impact Coachella;
Collaboration in conjunction with The New York Times for their covers for their podcast the Rabbit Hole Podcast and in collaboration with Universal Music Group, Interscope Records, Scientific American, Passion Pictures, Tor Books;
Did the covers for Heavy Metal magazine, G. Jones and Dirty Heads;
In 2019, his debut exhibition «New Earths» took place in Los Angeles;
The year 2019 was the first time he was working together with Odezsa in the production of stage and special effects for their performance during The Sundara International Festival in Mexico.
Victor Mosquera in the NFT world
Victor Mosquera entered the NFT industry quite naturally due to his communication on the Clubhouse platform in the year 2020. But the idea of the business frightened him.
Since it was launched, the website has grown into a key meeting platform for creating an organic community and friendship with other artists. He became friends with several other members of the digital artist community, including Frederic Duquette (FVCKRENDER) and his wife Baeige.
The first NFT release was in November of 2020, as part of the Everything Connected project. Since since then, the artist has released six collections in total and an album with his partner Fvckrender.
The artist debuted his first NFT known as Patterns Unfolding in November 2020. Since then, he’s published seven full collections and numerous 1/1 NFTs available on different marketplaces.
In the month of October, 2021 Victor Mosquera was invited to take part in the auction at Sotheby’s in which he displayed the NFT Tranquility in Chaos. The result was that she sold for 49,803 US dollars.
In the month of November 2022, Victor Mosquera realized one of his dreams as a fan and child as FIFA invited him to be an artist on digital media to take part in the FIFA World Cup. In the course of the collaboration, he developed digital art alongside Lionel Messi.
Features of NFTs by Victor Mosquera
The style of the author is well-known and stands out clearly in a sea of other artists. Each of his works is based on an idea.
His digital works that has made Victor Mosquera a celebrity, is distinguished by its unique style and ambiance. The artist himself was influenced by a variety of things, from religion, hallucinogenic art and the human mental state. The whole spectrum is interspersed in his work. A prominent facial symbol is a constant feature in his work – «healers» – representative of his quest for spirituality.
The works of Victor Mosquera is filled with mysterious, psychedelics and extraterrestrial. The spectrum of his nFTs vary from pastel-sand shades to vibrant hues. In many cases, in contrast to the backdrop and landscapes with pastel hues, characters or the main characters in his stories are bright spots.
The stories of his characters are wacky and dreamlike. The most convincing description would come from the category of dreaming of nomads, or intergalactic wanderers who travel through other planets and deserts to discover the meaning of existence or the mysteries of the universe.
Victor Mosquera is not afraid of experimenting. He is able to boldly mix cultural symbols and ethnicities from different culture in his art, expertly navigating symbolism, form and geometrical shapes of objects. This kind of combination lets you rid your characters of any ethnic elements which makes them universal. Every viewer will find it more likely to connect with the artwork, to discover something that is close to him and his own world.
