9,225 diamonds (895.6 carats) and set in white gold. This fingerprint is a piece based on the fingerprint from the arrest warrant of Nelson Mandela.  The diamonds are round brilliant G/H color VS+ clarity.

Size US: 39 x 35 in

Size Europe: 99 x 89 cm

Redefining the workings of a luxury industry isn’t something that many can say they’ve done, but Johnathan Schultz is continuing to trailblaze his way through one of the world’s top markets. As a South African artist and entrepreneur, Johnathan is inspired by precious metals and diamonds, two of the country’s most valued natural resources. He integrates these different mediums along with other precious stones and artifacts into fabulous works of art that are not only mesmerizing, but have a back-story of hope, diversity and the ultimate rise over obstacles. His passion for innovation is matched by his fascination with contemporary art and the way art communicates universally. Recently, Johnathan has explored new applications of precious metals and materials, to bring both gravity and depth to large-scale artworks.

Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (1901-1985) was a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so-called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making.
Dubuffet began painting at the age of seventeen and studied briefly at the Académie Julian, Paris.
After seven years, he abandoned painting and became a wine merchant. During the thirties, he painted again for a short time, but it was not until 1942 that he began the work which has distinguished him as an outstanding innovator in postwar European painting. Dubuffet looked to the margins of the everyday—the art of prisoners, psychics, the uneducated, and the institutionalized—to liberate his own creativity, coining the term “Art Brut” as a reflection of the creative possibilities outside the conventions of the day. His paintings from the early forties in brightly colored oils were soon followed by works in which he employed such unorthodox materials as cement, plaster, tar, and asphalt-scraped, carved and cut and drawn upon with a rudimentary, spontaneous line.

Size US: 58 x 61 in

Size Europe: 147 x 155 cm

 

Roberto Matta, in full Roberto Antonio Sebastian Matta Echaurren, (born November 11, 1911, Santiago, Chile—died November 23, 2002, Civitavecchia, Italy), Chilean-born painter of mysterious fantastic environments who lived his adult life outside his homeland and became identified with the international Surrealist movement.

Matta completed an architecture degree at the Catholic University in Santiago (1931) and moved

to Paris in 1933 to work for the influential architect and city planner Le Corbusier. While working in the architect’s studio, Matta became increasingly interested in painting. Further, his friendships with the avant-garde in various centres of Europe—Gertrude Stein, Marcel Duchamp, Walter

Gropius, Salvador Dalí, Federico Garcia Lorca, André Breton, and others—stimulated his interest in the Surrealist movement, and by 1936 he had abandoned architecture as a career.

Bronze, 2019

Size USA: 13 x 7 x 8 in

Size Europe: 33 x 18 x 20 cm

 

Shray continues her exploration of her bronze works using a black patina that recasts her sculpture's impact on negative space. Her studies in mass and positive space and negative space infuse her works with a palpable force; each piece possesses a distinct energy.

Made from coins, Unique Piece, 2021

Size Europe: 36 x 15 x 36 cm

Size US:  14 x 6 x 14 in

  

Kim Seungwoo is a contemporary Korean sculptor, lives in Seoul, South Korea.

Seungwoo is famous for his sculptures made from coins and buttons. He creates hyper-realistic, life-size sculptures of human figures and spinning objects.

The Artist uses coins to build complex, surprisingly detailed, three-dimensional sculptures. Each sculpture consists of as few as hundreds of thousands of coins, up into the thousands. Assembled in flowing, swirling patterns, the coins make up Kim's sculptured human forms almost seem to be alive and create fascinating effects.

Money have an unexplainable ability to attract and hypnotize the viewer, and Kim Seungwoo's spinning sculptures magnify the beauty of shining and sparkling coins.

Just like a wizard, Kim Seungwoo creates the sculptures that enchant the viewer. His work examines our relationship with money, while also taking advantage of the physical beauty of the coins.

Art is Money, or Money is Art? — questions Kim Seungwoo