On August 8th, 2020, a now shelved photoshoot was released on Instagram and Facebook followed by The Beat Pack on August 10th released via SoundCloud, this is all before the website was fully indexed and designed. This occurrence alerted the purists of an organization that embodies a unique blend of business acumen and mafioso principles. Witnessing the chaotic yet disciplined string of ideas unfolding before you, it became evident that this organization aimed to establish a mythical-like presence, with the word “enigmatic” being the best description yet not doing it plenty justice, challenging any simple definition.
Endeavors spanning multi artistic mediums from clothing to sonical signatures designed to decode ideas encoded through clothing and further communicating through locksreens, cryptic biblical texts and blog entries such as this one. With 7 collections and 7 sonical installations comprising nearly 30 records. If we’re talking best case scenarios under this creative climate this is the best-case scenario imaginable. Quotables launched from The Sonic L.P through the Celestial Experience came to fruition, sort of an epiphany. When we’re talking quintessential arts, we’re talking about an organization that wins at great odds and even in defeat it extracts something positive up off the situation.
This isn’t farewell, with age comes wisdom and you know how the other saying goes “this is a man’s world, you’re at your best when you’re middle aged.”
Quintessential Arts is a multidisciplinary omnipresent artistic organisation - the name is derived from the fifth essence interpreted as æther in addition to the four elements thought to compose the heavenly bodies in Ancient Greek philosophy. The organisation is driven by reinvention, reinterpretation and recreation of older works encoded by its garments and decoded through the sonic. Just as science and religion go hand in hand, the garments go hand in hand with the sonic as well as other mediums such as literary pieces used to set the stage for every season respectively thus setting it apart from what the masses have become accustomed to. Quintessential Arts is an organisation whose purpose is to challenge the natural order of things, be the voice of reason and critique, make those that don’t identify with the status quo identify themselves with it.
Quintessential Arts is a multidisciplinary omnipresent artistic organisation founded August 8th, 2020 in Johannesburg South, South Africa.