NUBPLUS drops 333 generative works on Shape. On texture over line, the community that shaped the first collection, and a mint that stays open for a month.
UBPLUS has been painting walls since 1999. Twenty-six years of spray cans, then formal sculpture training, then modular forms in glazed stoneware, then code. He is Turkish, based in Montenegro, and describes the arc himself as the streets to the studio. He still does all of it, posting process videos of algorithms alongside photographs of clay, and since 2022 he has minted across Tezos, Ethereum, Bitcoin and now Shape without ever settling on one. On a 2023 open edition he wrote that the alter ego is "your last land where you can hide yourself." That is a graffiti writer's idea, the name as shelter, and it runs through everything he makes.
Better, Together. is 333 unique generative works, minting on Shape. The whole point of it is a shift from line to texture: brushstrokes, spray marks, layered surfaces. In his own framing, code gets a closer canvas. Human figures sit at the centre, different bodies in different postures, built out of point clouds and geometric systems rather than drawn as outlines. Alone they read as marks. Together they form a surface.
Last year he took a mural commission on the Adriatic coast after the Melia Budva Street Art Fest, a festival that put twenty artists from Montenegro, the Balkans and Eastern Europe onto a 150-metre hoarding in Bečići.
His earlier generative work tells you where this comes from. Grizu.263 on fxhash dealt in excavated terrain, rails, roads and construction traces, all extraction and buried labour. Automata Monads took Wolfram's cellular automata and watched order arrive out of simple rules. Synthetic Flora pushed nature through a Fauvist palette. The through line across all of it is human presence inside a system, and material that refuses to look clean.
This one is a sequel, and he is open about that. Together, also 333 pieces, also on Shape, was where he found the visual language he had been hunting for.
"Together marked a turning point in my practice. It opened a visual language I had been searching for and became the foundation for a new body of work. Just as important was the community that formed around it. The support, conversations, and friendships that emerged through Shape gave this project a meaning beyond the artwork itself."
- NUBPLUS
The mint structure says the same thing out loud. Holders of Together and Synthetic Flora go first and mint free, then four tiers open in stages across two and a half hours, climbing 0.003, 0.004, 0.005 ETH with the wallet limit rising at each step. Public opens last at 0.006 ETH. And then it stays open for a month, until 8 September.
Better, Together. by NUBPLUS. 333 works on Shape. Public mint open until 8 September at opensea.io/collection/bettertogether.
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