Unsold (don't Buy and Timur Nugmanov)
Video, 2023
About the artwork
Collaboration of Daily artists Timur Nugmanov and Don't Buy. The subject of the work 'Unsold' is the artist observing the last 15 seconds of the auction on the Daily.xyz website. After the last second the work gets the status of 'unsold' work. It is a kind of discourse on the role of the market in shaping the personality and career of an artist.
Sound design by Timur Nugmanov and don't Buy
Audio explanation
Listen to don't Buy and Timur Nugmanov discuss this work.
Don't Buy (b. 1997) is a visual artist who creates digital paintings and GIFs using artificial intelligence technology. In his work he addresses the aesthetics of retro digital windows and interfaces, reflecting on the theme of digital reality - endlessly appearing windows on top of AI images disrupting it and at the same time merging into a single statement.
Timur Nugmanov was born in 1986 in Moscow.He studied at the Medical Institute, the Jazz college, and several visual arts and management courses. Since 2017 he has exhibited at Superchief gallery (LA, USA), NFT Paris (Tezos) (France), Nagornaya gallery (Moscow, Russia) and the Regional Museum Aktobe (Aktobe, Kazakhstan).