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Meet Yekta @yekta or Hossein Yektapour- an Iranian artist whose practice spans painting, typography, 2D/3D design, and digital art. Active in web3 since 2021, he has minted numerous collections on Tezos and Ethereum, presenting a dark-surreal visual language that weaves sorrow and chaos with precision and innovation. His portfolio shows an artist not content with stylistic imitation, but deeply engaged with conceptual depth. Delve into this thread to find out more about Yekta's fascinating art world. (1/6)
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Rejecting the “toxic standardization” of the art world, Yekta embraces risk and rawness over trends and algorithms. His works honor Iranian cultural heritage while pushing toward contemporary, hybrid forms that question visibility, value, and authenticity. In both digital and physical spaces, Yekta’s art resonates as a radical act of defiance and tenderness. (2/6)
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His artist manifesto underscores a protest against art as product. He rejects safe models, trend-following, pleasing algorithms — instead privileging risk, truth, raw emotion. This stance resonates strongly with his digital work: pieces that unsettle, that avoid easy legibility, that demand engagement rather than passive consumption. "Real art is meant to wound, not soothe. To ask dangerous questions, not earn safe praise. To destroy norms, not strengthen them. So if you feel like you don’t belong in this system, it’s probably because you’re still an artist." (Yekta) https://x.com/hosseinyektapo1/status/1926185773239267507 (3/6)
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Yekta’s immersion in web3 is not merely about adopting a new medium, but about challenging the underlying systems of art dissemination, visibility, and value. He is using the blockchains to both reach collectors and to assert that digital art can hold depth, critique, and integrity. The web3 framework gives him tools (smart contracts, decentralized marketplaces, blockchain provenance) that align with his critique of standardization in art. The infrastructure is part of his statement. (4/6)
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Yet, Yekta is not purely polemical. His work shows a synthesis: patience, craft, and a belief in creation as blending science, art, and persistence. The sorrow and chaos are not gratuitous, but tools for accessing something universal—human fragility, identity in flux, the charged space between tradition and future. (5/6)
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In the broader art scene, Hossein Yektapour represents a generation of artists who refuse to be defined only by their heritage or by market expectations. His trajectory in web3 suggests that his influence may extend as much through the conversations his work provokes as through the artifacts themselves. For collectors, curators, and fellow artists, he offers a model of artistic integrity in times of conformism. We hope you'll follow @yekta if you were not doing it already. Also you can stay in touch with his art at: https://linktr.ee/hosseinyektapour https://x.com/hosseinyektapo1 (6/6)
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