ROCKET SHIP
2022
KANTFISH
Photography, Animation, Sound, Edition
NFT, 2/25. Minted on Ethereum
About the artwork
Rocket Ship is part of the series «Animal Instinct».
Look into the eyes of the sheep.
«Animal Instinct» displaces the animal portrait toward a territory of direct confrontation. There is no distance. The animal looks. It holds the gaze. It compels.
The series is constructed from video art loops in which photography, glitch and moving backgrounds generate constant tension. The sea and other natural elements do not function as context. They act as flux. A living space that surrounds and activates the presence of the animal.
Each artwork departs from a direct experience of the artist. Lion, giraffe, owl, feline. These are not symbols. They are presences. Decontextualised, isolated, confronting the viewer in a close proximity that eliminates any external narrative.
The gesture is clear. In an environment dominated by productivism, the series forces a displacement toward the essential. It does not propose reflection. It imposes evidence. To look into the eyes of nature is to recognise oneself within it.
Rocket Ship, presented at the Guinovart space of the Avalanche Summit in Barcelona on a large-format LED screen, introduces this logic into a public and technological space. The artwork does not adapt to its environment. It interrupts it. It inserts the animal gaze into the heart of a system oriented toward production, generating friction.
There is no representation here. There is confrontation. Nature does not appear as landscape. It appears as consciousness.
Exhibited at
Rocket Ship was selected and exhibited in the art space Guinovart at the Avalanche Summit in Barcelona (Regenera – 2022), in a very large format LED screen.
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Technique
Kantfish’s process often begins in the real. In direct observation and in photography, understood not as a register, but as a point of departure.
From there the image undergoes transformation through processes of manual digital painting, animation, sound, edition, where gesture, intervention, and decision-making remain central. The artwork is constructed layer by layer, in a constant dialogue between control and drift.
Within this process new digital tools are also integrated, including artificial intelligence systems, used as instruments for visual and conceptual exploration. Not as automation, but as an extension of language and creative risk.
The result does not adhere to a fixed technique, but to an open methodology in which the real, the manual, and the digital coexist without evident hierarchies.
Certified Limited Editions
This artwork is a limited edition. The number of editions is indicated above, next to the image of the artwork.
Its authenticity is inherently guaranteed as this is an artwork registered on the Ethereum blockchain.
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OTHER ARTWORKS BY KANTFISH
Kantfish (Emanuele Giusto) is a Mixed Media Artist whose practice articulates photography, traditional media and digital technologies, including artificial intelligence. His research operates between the visual and the conceptual, approaching reality not as representation, but as a philosophical problem transferred to the perceptual field. In this framework, the exploration of the complexity of the real becomes a way of expanding individual consciousness and reconfiguring the collective imaginary.
Kantfish as a multidisciplinary author was born in Italy, under the ancestral colors of Etna. He develops his international practice based in Portugal and Spain, exploring the tension between reality, its symbolic layers and its representation through the concept that vertebrates his work: “More Than Real”.
Kantfish develops a modus operandi that starts from photography, applying a precise, almost surgical eye to natural, urban, and human landscapes, transforming them into abstract spaces that are revealed through the eye of the soul.
His personal and professional journey, with stages in Italy, Madrid, Mallorca, Luanda, Santiago in Cape Verde, and Miami, has shaped a perspective that operates at the intersection of documentary, fiction, and cultural analysis.
He has been recognized in international awards and biennials and is represented in galleries in Spain, Japan and the United States.
He shapes his visual perspective through photography, digital tools, cinema, writing, emerging technologies, artificial intelligence, and live interventions, crafting a hybrid language that intertwines critical thinking, journalistic research, and contemporary art practices.
For over two decades, he has published in media such as XL Semanal, El País Semanal, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, L’Espresso, and Il Messaggero.
This experience shapes his critical approach to the image and the way he unfolds visual narratives.
He has written scripts for programs broadcast on television networks such as Dmax.tv (Discovery Inc. Media), Warner Bros. Discovery, and audiovisual projects for organizations like the United Nations’ FAO, including the World Water Day campaign, where he integrates aesthetics, communication, and social research.
His film El Dulce Sabor del Éxito ( 2023), winner of the Artistic Merit Award at the Impact Docs Awards, was the first Spanish documentary to premiere in a metaverse cinema in collaboration with the Decentraland Foundation. He is also the author of Il giro d’Europa con 30€ ( Feltrinelli) and CryptoJungla, cited by Nature magazine.
