Well before lockdown spurred the genesis of countless digital art initiatives, Milan’s Mon Share Art had pioneered a unique combination platform that leaned into online sales while maintaining a few characteristics of the traditional brick-and-mortar gallery.
Mon Share Art had no permanent physical space, but attended fairs, kept regular programming, and acted as a crossroads between a gallery and an art advisory. The platform even ventured into provocative initiatives like renting (rather than buying) art.
Mon Share Art has kept its finger on the pulse of the future of the art world and what it will look like. With that in mind, we asked the gallery to name a few emerging artists that it thinks we should know.
Below, check out the artists they’re promoting, and look out for their work, which Mon Share Art will bring to Miami this December.
Alexander Peter Idoko
Alexander Peter Idoko, 2021.
Fast Facts: Alexander Peter Idoko, Nigerian, born 1992
About the Work: Alex Peter started making art at a young age in Lagos. Today, his practice incorporates a variety of media, including pen, pastel, and pencil works, and pyrography art, which incorporates razors, sandpaper, and burners. His artworks communicate the hardships of those who might not have a voice, and speaks to ideas of chaos, redemption, and transformation. “I mostly adopt [subject matter from] past and contemporary African societies, because I feel there is more that is yet to be unraveled,” the artist said.
Daniele Accossato
Daniele Accossato, 2021.
Fast Facts: Daniele Accossato, Italian, born 1987
About the Work: Accossato considers sculpture a place of communication. He is a graduate of the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin. His work refers to elements of classical cultural and artistic forms and reimagines them in our contemporary world. “It is essential that everyone works constantly in search of their own medium, the means capable of captivating expression of oneself, which then corresponds to a whole,” the artist said.
Fabio Giampietro
Fabio Giampietro, The Wave-Final (2018). Courtesy of Mon Share Art.
Fast Facts: Fabio Giampietro, Italian, born 1974
About the Work: Fabio Giampietro explores the relationship between oil painting and VR programs, carrying viewers into a fictive space that gives the illusion of walking through the artwork and entering its space, disorienting the senses.
Rahideh
Rahideh, No Water, No Moon 1 (2020). Courtesy of MonSharArt.
Fast Facts: Rahideh, Iranian, born 1994
About the Work: Rahideh first earned a degree in architecture from the University of Westminster before deciding to become an artist. Her work seeks to conjure a spiritual dimension that is free from pre-conditional states of religion, race, and other belief systems.