Green wall. 240x210 cm. Mural drawing and artist's book. Marker pens on paper. Amsterdam 2020
oliasstudio.eth establishes a hub between the physical world of the artist's studio and the decentralised, autonomous and modular web3.
Mounted on the IPFS network, this web page shows the creative activity, painting, drawing and digital artwork of Manuel Olías.
Together with this personal project oliasstudio also shows collective activities aimed at participating and favouring the communities of a decentralised world. TAG Lab & The Augmented Gallery is in this sense a commitment to the expanded spatial web as a place to build archives and exhibit fresh art that is more autonomous, less dependent on intermediaries and institutions.
Open studio
Mural painting, contemporary drawing, digital art and design. Portfolio and online store. Make an appointment to visit the studio, to propose a commissioned or collaborative project, to purchase a piece from the collection, to take a souvenir, or simply to say hello.Prints Glyche quality
Here you can buy prints in Glyche quality of Manuel Olías' work directly provided by the author.Art on smart contract
Artworks integrated as NFT. For sale on OpenSea and Soonaverse.
Bio·graphy
Olías work is mainly in the field of drawing and painting. Between 2000 and 2012 he was based in Madrid from where he developed projects in Vancouver, San Francisco and New York. He has been a regular on the Madrid cultural scene since he co-founded the Manklared Arts Collective in 2002. He has developed a recognisable and personal style through extensive series of drawings that, from a simple drawing, play in conceptual and critical territories. The tone that predominates in his drawings, and also in his paintings and videos, is expectant and reflective. They combine features of classical drawing and the incorporation of contemporary graphics, such as the assimilation of vignettes and illustrations. He is influenced by procedures of spontaneous expression, action-painting or graffiti, but explores these in a slow-paced variant.
He has been working from the city of Valencia since 2012. His recent exhibitions include 'Alumbramientos, redibujo y fata morgana' held in 2019 at the ColorElefante gallery in the Russafa neighbourhood, working on the concept of the artist's book and developing the idea of drawing-mural. He is currently showing his work at Stichting la Jetée/ Foundation Jetty in Amsterdam, and in his studio in Valencia.
Marketplace
Marketplace enabled for on-line purchase. Here you can buy original drawings or prints in Glyche quality of Manuel Olías' work directly provided by the author. Also mural paintings that you can consider for purchase or make a workshop commission. Included in this gallery collection are the "artist's books", fold-out wall drawings, both originals and copies of collector's quality and durability.
On-line marketplace
Exhibition and sale of paintings, drawings, engravings, prints, Digital art, NFTs verified collectibles
Prints on demand
Printing original and digital artwork. For sale artworks in Glyche quality. Prints on demand.
Creative design
Creative multimedia studio. Vector drawing, Digital painting, Video and 2D animation.
Wed3 to arts
Artworks into interoperable 3D assets in metaverses and spatial web portfolios. Design of AR environments for exhibitions and immersive shows.
Press Office
Recent references in the newspapers Forbes, Levante, El Mundo, Las Provincias, Valencia Plaza..., specialised media like MAKMA article by Salva Torres, and in the IVAM Institud Valencia d'Art Modern catalogue about the exhibition Ruta Gráfica. Previously three publications by very active agents of the arts guild in the city of Valencia should be highlighted. In the first publication Marisa Giménez, art historian and curator in the interview for the contemporary culture magazine MAKMA, La difracción y la memoria de Manuel Olías. The article El Ramalazo punk de Manuel Olías about the exhibition Alumbramientos, re-drawing and the fata morgana, written by Rafa Martínez for dximagazine. And the MAKMA article El propósito y la perseverancia de ‘Razón y Tiempo’ by Merche Medina
(...) artist allergic to the conventional, soaked in transgression and technology, that moves with the ease of poet between the myths of the counterculture and the permanent beauty of its classical references (...)
Marisa Giménez
La difracción y la memoria de Manuel Olías
MAKMA
Olías considers himself a "tracer" rather than a draughtsman, but that's just as well. He appropriates images from the collective imaginary, a characteristic of the liquid and post-modern times in which we have been given to live, to make them his own.
Rafa Martínez
El Ramalazo punk de Manuel Olías
dximagazine
The three "Bilocation" shows were spectacular and bizarre, and all the artists presented impeccable in their control over their styles - disciplines and attention to detail, clearly the result of hours of slavish consolidation, work that supports multiple readings and careful thought....
Lee Henderson
BILOCATION
Canadian Arts Magazine Bordercrossings
Valencia's IVAM exhibits the graphic testimony of the "movida valenciana", a marginal movement that was not satisfied with being for a few and became massive, exploding until its own disappearance.
Andrés Rodríguez
La movida valenciana se resiste al olvido
FORBES
Perseverance is the determining core that links the five artists - Jorge Carla, Calo Carratalá, Manuel Olías, José Plá and Felicia Puerta - who make up the group exhibition 'Razón y Tiempo. El camino de la pintura', curated by Marisa Giménez.
Merche Medina
El propósito y la perseverancia de ‘Razón y Tiempo’
MAKMA
Portfolio
A selection of artistic works that includes paintings, drawings and digital pieces from the most outstanding series of the personal creative production of Manuel Olías. You can get more information by clicking on the photo to access the series to which it belongs.
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Océano en llamas. 310x200 cm. Acrilic on canvas. Madrid 20012
Tigre entre las flores. 310x200 cm. Acrilic on canvas. Madrid 2005
TAG Lab & The Augmented Gallery
Tag Lab & The Augmented Gallery is a project by oliasstudio. It aims to constitute a multi-chain virtual art gallery. An administrative DAO at client.aragon.org, and an executive one where part of the NFTs are minted in the Iota Tangle, and experimentally in Shimmer, its test network, through EVM with the future extended ecosystem of interoperable metaverse access. The oliasstudio operates through Soonaverse and OpenSea, along with other platforms and other blockchains, for the registration and marketing of its NFTs.
The Augmented Gallery is in the metaverse of OVER immersed in Augmented Reality. AR with access from the subdomain theaugmented.over.eth where we have created a portal-scene that communicates with a ring of experimental art galleries distributed in various cities around the world. In these galleries we give space to exhibitions of digital work as well as to extended art proposals and portfolios in 3D environment for artists, both digital natives and those who develop their work with traditional media and techniques.
F.A.Q
A frequently asked questions list for oliasstudio. Some answers to common questions. If you can't find the answer you are looking for here, please contact the studio.
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But what exactly is oliasstudio.eth? A portfolio, a shop, a manifesto, an archive, an advertising strategy, an artist's self-promotion?
It is a web service that is operational on the IPFS network. These service has communication, exhibition and commercial purposes, and also tries to be an approximation to a model of autonomy and self-management of the artist and management and administration of his/her own work (Selling wine without bottles, by John Perry Barlow). Assuming that art is a gregarious and institutional human activity, we do not wish to exclude ourselves, but we do wish to protect certain aspects without which it is not possible to develop a free activity such as artistic activity requires. And by counteracting the weight and influence that power groups and cultural agents have and with which they tyrannise.
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Is it possible to buy artwork on this website? Are all the pieces authenticated? As nfts? What is the relationship between NFTs and the new digital art culture with the pieces of an artist who uses traditional media in his production?
Yes, you can buy original paintings, drawings and prints authenticated by the author. The sale of image rights and marketing rights through NFTs of the digital images of the original pieces or prints can be negotiated and acquired. In that sense the studio intends to use tokenisation to wrap physical art for interoperability on the web3 and for commercial use.
Among the pieces in the collection are pieces of digital art that we have selected from our long history. Some works commissioned for clubs in the 90's, or fragments of the activity as a VJing in the 2000's now minted in this effervescent time of the current industrial revolution. -
Is it possible to visit the studio in person? physically?
Yes, you can. Try to contact the studio first for everyone's convenience. We try to be working in the studio Monday to Thursday open to the public between 10am and 18pm. Other times are possible by appointment. Carrer d'Emili Baró 42 Pta. MO. It is always a pleasure to show our work. You will get a free gift for coming here in person. See you soon!
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Is oliasstudio a personal project? How many people work in the design department or how many accounts are in the TAG Lab DAO?
Just one person working on the studio. We have a group of talented artists and technicians orbiting with whom we eventually work on web or video or graphic design projects. Collaborators on commissioned or collaborative projects.
TAG Lab has currenly has 60 members (Iota accounts) in Soonaverse. There are five founding member accounts (Ethereum and Polygon) that carry the most weight in the DAO organisation in the aragon client. More info on TAG Lab -
Why this approach? What is the point of working in a network like IPFS?
HTTP vs IPFS: Is Peer-to-Peer Sharing the Future of the Web? —Really we don't know. But we presume it makes perfect sense. The following sections delve into some problems of HTTP and the benefits of IPFS.
IPFS as an artistic Manifesto
To solve some of the problems of independent art practices that are common to the emerging world of the technological and cultural avant-garde.
About Verifiability
IPFS uses cryptographic hashes to verify the authenticity and integrity of files, making it difficult for malicious actors to tamper with or delete files.
No point of failure
IPFS users do not need to trust each other. In other words, the failure of a single or even multiple nodes in the network does not affect the functioning of the entire network, and an IPFS node can fetch data from the network as long as at least one other node in the network has that data, regardless of its location.
IPFS is an open, distributed and participatory network
That reduces data silos from centralized servers, making IPFS more resilient than traditional systems. No single entity or person controls, manages or owns IPFS; rather, it is a community-maintained project with multiple implementations of the protocol, multiple tools and apps leveraging that protocol, and multiple users and organizations contributing to it's design and development.
04.1 Art is an open networkA distributed and participatory network.
Protects data sovereignty
IPFS enabling users to store and access data directly on a decentralized network of nodes, rather than centralized, third-party servers. This eliminates the need for intermediaries to control and manage data, giving users full control and ownership over their data.
06 Off-chain storageIPFS enables verifiable off-chain storage by creating a link between blockchain state and content-addressed published to IPFS. This works by storing a Content IDentifier (CID) (explained in How IPFS works) in a smart contract.
IPFS prevents vendor lock-in
IPFS prevents vendor lock-in , as users have sovereignty over their data and infrastructure. This is enabled by content-addressing, which decouples the data from a single location or infrastructure provider. Unlike traditional cloud vendors, IPFS enables you to change data storage locations without changing things like APIs and data management. In addition, because IPFS is open-source, community-maintained and modular, users are not obligated to use a particular subsystem (described in How IPFS works). Instead, users can customize IPFS for their preferred technologies, needs and values.
Contact
Contact the studio to make an enquiry or suggestion, to make an appointment to visit the workshop, or even to place an order. Opening hours Monday to Thursday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (In the studio or in our chat room)