Rulton Fyder is an anonymous conceptual artist from Red Lodge Montana.
Since his first post on Instagram on February 26th, his works have caused quite a commotion in both the traditional and "new" art worlds. He manages to bridge the gap between these two worlds like no other and notes:
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.
Fyder addresses the informational discrepancy between both worlds via supposedly familiar motifs. Often this imagery recalls motifs of well-known contemporaries, but it is never a copy. Both motif and context always stem from his own experiences and a journey into his own past.
He reflects and documents the here and now, this crazy time we all live in:
He reflects and documents the here and now, this crazy time we all live in:
- The unstoppable technological progress
- The endless circulation, reshuffling, remixing and exchange of ideas
- The behavior of the crowd in an ultra-connected world, as currently seen in both the stock market and the cryptocurrency space
His references testify to a distinct knowledge of art history and frequently pay tribute to philosophers such as Jean Baudrillard, who decades ago predicted the hyperreality in which we increasingly live today.
At the height of the pandemic, more than half of the world’s population was in some sort of lockdown. These past 15 months human interaction has oftentimes been replaced by a digital one.
We are all the more pleased that we can now present his works, once created as pixels, in physical form and in the context of real human interaction.
For those who cannot attend, we will resort to pixels again and are happy to show the below video walkthrough:
