If you’d told us 3 years ago on the day that Quintessential Arts was founded that 1 year ago on March 22nd, 2023, we’d release a season that was nothing short of an assault on the establishments the populous has come to love, rely on and not question regardless of how they’ve drifted away from what brought them to fruition, we would’ve believed you. Quintessential Arts is a product of discontentment with the natural order of things it challenges the school of thought the majority subscribes to. In no way does the organization represent anarchy, only a pursuit of truth in its purest form, no matter how upsetting and unsettling. Forever questioning "big brother" as he operates within the grey area or the supreme being as he lets big brother continue insulting human intelligence, that’s if humans are intelligent beings to begin with. For all we know we coexist with extraterrestrial life cloaked as humans. Perhaps our pursuit for truth within the art space is displaced, maybe Quintessential Arts should be operating as a vigilante agency colouring outside the borders? Solely dedicated to exposing frauds? Criminal enterprises disguised as government agencies, snow storm and human trafficking pastors? Soothsayers making brother kill brother over land, some coin and a slice of bread? No we’re just pulling your leg, we didn’t mean to scare you. Yet, this is reality as we know it.
ABOUT US
Quintessential Arts is an artistic organization that takes art to a broader spectrum, the name acts as something the organization stands for - the fifth essence, quintessential arts epitomizes what art is by recreating, reinventing, reiterating, and reinterpreting creations from previous centuries thereafter creating clothes which encode the ideas then decoding the ideas through the sonic.
Just like there is no religion without science and there isn't science without religion, as an organization working on several projects at one go quintessential arts is aware that without the sonic there are no garments and without the garments there is no sonic, lockscreens and other endeavors which set it apart from a typical artistic organization.
For quintessential arts the goal is to challenge the natural order of things, be the voice of reason and make those that don't identify with the status quo identify with it.
Many would assume there isn’t anything particularly astounding about the origins of the word ‘quintessential’ at a glance it is quite French and can be broken down into essential and then presumably essence. But what about the quint part? Think quintet or quintuplets. Quintessence literally means the ‘fifth essence’. Going back through medieval French to Latin, as quinta essential. It was used in classical and medieval philosophy to refer to: a fifth substance in addition to the four elements, thought to compose the heavenly bodies and to be latent in all things.
At heart quintessential arts is an organization that draws its inspiration from 90’s hip-hop culture and mythology.
QUINTESSENTIAL ARTS ׀ ALL HEAVENS RESERVED, 2024.
Quintessential Arts is an artistic organization that takes art to a broader spectrum, founded August 8th, 2020 in Johannesburg South, South Africa.