SURCANDO EL RÍO DEL INFRAMUNDO
2016
KANTFISH
Photography, Manual Digital Painting.
Fine art print on museum-grade cotton paper mounted on aluminum dibond.
150×100 cm, Edition of 2 + 1 A.P.
90×60 cm, Edition of 3 + 1 A.P.
90×60 cm, Edition of 3 + 1 A.P.
About the artwork
Surcando el Río del Inframundo is part of the series «Success ¡? – 2084».
COME AND SEE. You will feel drawn and empty at the same time. This small Purple Paper Boat will give you the possibility to see reality in the right dimension. We are granting Copernican centrality to a purple paper ship named Caron Dimonio.
The 500 euro bill is the most expensive in the world, it’s in danger of extinction and it represents the totem of humanity today.
Power is changing. It is no longer in the hands of individuals, as underlined by Moisés Naím. A lot of vital time is wasted, as David Graeber emphasizes. Today the global system is liquid, without control, without global courts, without global political power, without global rights, is in the hands of the far west economic and financial.
There is no space for reflection. There is no time. The otium lost its valued.
“The world is in the hands of corporations,” says Noam Chomsky, who continues: “Corporations have as their sole objective, by definition, to multiply their revenues and revenues. Automatically the corporate goal became the goal of the human being”.
The Apollonian γνῶθι σεαυτόν remains unknown. The consequence is failing to understand what is truly happening in reality and in our lives.
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Formats and technique
MATERIALS
The artworks are printed on high-quality cotton paper, Hahnemühle or Canson, selected for their tonal depth, stability, and lightfastness. Each piece is mounted on aluminum Dibond with a wooden frame, ensuring rigidity, durability, and a clean presence on the wall.
Another format particularly favored by Kantfish is direct-to-aluminum printing. With a vivid, glossy finish and exceptional resilience, it is suitable for both interior and exterior settings, where the image achieves an almost tangible intensity.
In some cases, artworks are delivered without any mounting. The collector receives the piece on its original paper, exactly as conceived, leaving the final choice of presentation or framing entirely open.
TECHNIQUES
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 manual digital painting processes, 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
Each piece is delivered signed by Kantfish, who personally oversees every stage of the production process, caring for every detail. The collector receives a Certificate of Authenticity with a matching hologram on both the artwork and the physical document, along with an additional registration on the Ethereum blockchain, whose reference is provided to the collector.
Blockchain-based certification guarantees the immutability, traceability, and independent verifiability of the certificate of authenticity, enhancing protection against forgery and reinforcing confidence in the artwork.
A personal letter from Kantfish is also included.
Along with the artwork, all necessary care instructions and specifications are provided.
Secure shipping and delivery
We make art accessible worldwide. Shipments are protected with custom packaging and insured via DHL, with guaranteed delivery and full tracking at every stage. International delivery is available worldwide; shipping costs will be calculated once the delivery address is provided.
From our studio in Portugal (and occasionally from Madrid), we dispatch each piece with maximum security and real-time tracking, allowing collectors to follow the shipment at all times.
Return policy
For purchases made from Portugal, the right of withdrawal provided by Decree-Law No. 24/2014 applies.
The buyer has 14 calendar days from the receipt of the order to request a return, except in the following cases, where no returns or refunds are accepted:
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– Unique or limited editions
– Hand-signed pieces
– Custom or made-to-order artworks
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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 automatic learning (AI). 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.
