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Amanda Schmitt Art: Curatorial and Advisory firm. Specializing in Post-war & Contemporary art, and NFTs.
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1/ Historic acquisition of a full dev set of 10 Autoglyphs marks a pivotal moment in the art world, bridging the gap between traditional and on-chain art.
Excited to have been part of making this acquisition happen, along w/ the team
@Fountainxyz
Here’s why… 🧵
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1/ Welcome to Punk 8711, The Elvis. This is the latest acquisition from one of our clients, Kanbas.
One of Cryptopunks’ crucial points of appeal is how they convey the "just past." The Elvis perfectly encapsulates this nostalgia and provides a meaningful access point to the
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1/ Another exquisite Fidenza was acquired by Kanbas! Fidenza
#49
.
This ultra-rare black Fidenza embodies the prime Fidenza form: the Spiral.
Here’s why 🧵🌀
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1/
@MattKaneArtist
introduces the “No Moon”🌚...🧵
Josef Albers, Study for Homage to the Square, 1974 (Collection of
@Guggenheim
)
Matt Kane, Gazer
#140
, 2021
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Today is as good of a day as any to get started here…
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8/ The art world is evolving, embracing the innovative spirit of on-chain technologies.
Let's celebrate the diverse expressions and recognize that, in the end, art is bound by its timeless principles.
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Artudito speaks!
EXCLUSIVE: Artudito was the buyer of alien CryptoPunk
#7804
for $16.4 million last month
The anonymous collector first made waves in February by buying an Autoglyphs set for $14.5 million
In their first-ever interview, we discuss the sale and what's next for the collection ⬇️
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1/5 Kanbas is pleased to have acquired 9 works from
@ElmanMansimov
's alignDRAW on-chain art collection released via
@Fellowshiptrust
@FellowshipAi
. alignDRAW from 2015 is widely credited as the first text-to-image model.🧵
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7/ While crypto transactions are swift, enduring principles like cultural significance and institutional recognition persist. Artudito’s growing collection underscores this. Inspired by R2D2, a keeper of memory, the collection aims to honor the past while charging into the future
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3/ Artudito, embracing both traditional analog and cutting-edge on-chain art, sees value in diverse artistic expressions. This acquisition of Autoglyphs is just like adding a painting or sculpture to their collection, bridging traditional and digital art seamlessly.
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4/ To traditional art collectors unfamiliar with on-chain generative art, you're missing out on some of the most captivating projects of our time. Autoglyphs echo early computer and generative art and have aesthetic and conceptual ties to modernist abstraction and conceptual art.
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2/ NFTs and blockchain-generated art, much like traditional art forms, derive value from quality, scarcity, and originality. The boundary between these art realms is quickly fading and ultimately will be irrelevant. Art is art.
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5/ Autoglyphs align with the genealogy of conceptual art, drawing parallels to Sol Lewitt's instructional drawings and Hans Haacke's institutional critique. Yet, the blockchain's transparency integrates transaction history and provenance, enhancing value in a positive way.
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4/ Dan Graham’s iconic video work “Rock My Religion” (1984) narrates the evolution of rock-n-roll from Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis, Patti Smith, and The Doors, to punk culture.
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6/ Spiritually, a spiral connects us to the divine in its transit from the external world into the inner soul. Smithson encourages viewers not only to view but to walk on his work; Riley requires us to activate hers; Iommi envisioned social change through art. Hobbs invites us to
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2/ The original Punk movement itself is clearly an important cultural vector for Cryptopunks. Punk denotes anti-establishment, non-conformity. It was first expressed through music - specifically, the Sex Pistols in London in the 1970s - and has since proliferated through multiple
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Cryptopunks, Elvis, original punks - the common thread is a coming-together for a common love and purpose, expressed through art, a spiritual tribalism beyond the normal fray. Art as the higher purpose.
Seen through this lens, Punk 8711 The Elvis lives in multiple time
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6/ This acquisition, the first of many for this collection, illustrates the NFT market's segmentation, akin to the traditional market. An upper tier with thriving markets and emerging artists inspired by projects like Autoglyphs.
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3/ But before Sex Pistols, there was Elvis: the original rock-n-roller, the devil in disguise, whose gyrations and soul-tinged form of rock music shocked and awed, bringing American subcultural threads to the fore, facilitating an almost religious experience at the altar of
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5/ We encourage you to browse through the Gazers today and, in the spirit of Josef Albers, observe how the varying textures and colors interact in the 1,000 Gazers, and share your Gazer/Albers Pairing with us in the comments!👇🏻
Josef Albers, Homage to the Square: Against Deep
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4/ In the words of
@Guggenheim
: “ The optical effects Albers created—shimmering color contrasts and the illusion of receding and advancing planes—were meant not so much to deceive the eye as to challenge the viewer’s faculties of visual reception. This shift in emphasis from
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8/ The significance of the Spirals trait cannot be understated in the hierarchy of Fidenzas. The Spiral is the pivotal element, drawing one in with its mesmerizing force and boundless expansion.
It is through the Spiral that the true power of Fidenzas can be realized,
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2/ In 1950, Josef Albers began what would become his signature series, the Homage to the Square. He produced over 1,000 variations on the basic compositional scheme of three or four nestling squares, each slightly gravitating towards the bottom edge. The seemingly narrow
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5/ Also in the Kanbas Collection is a 1955 bronze sculpture by Enio Iommi, a member of the visionary movement Asociación Arte Concreto-Invención, who envisioned a utopia through science and geometry, decades before the inception of computers. The precepts of their prescient
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3/ Fidenza
#49
bears resemblance to another iconic artwork dealing with the same material and philosophical concerns, Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, 1970 (collection of
@DiaArtFndn
).
One of the greatest works of land art, Spiral Jetty is a massive man-made spiral of rocks
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4/ Bridget Riley’s Blaze, 1964 (collection of the
@Tate
) is another notable Spiral. Her Op-Art work activates the visual faculties of the viewer; the static 2D image becomes visually energized through the viewer’s gaze, facilitating an illusive sense of movement.
All of these
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7/ The gestalt of this black-and-white composition relates it to the Yin-Yang symbol and the eternal struggle between the forces of darkness and light.
A spiral allows us to see time as reversible; as Vladimir Nabokov famously wrote "The future is but the obsolete in reverse".
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A beautiful project launched today by
@DarienBrito
, combining art historical references, ever evolving mutations, and doubles as a dynamic live representation of ETH blockchain activity!
Fun fact: The ever-evolving blocks in
@DarienBrito
’s Metamorphosis I (M1) were inspired by the legendary Dutch artist and illusionist M.C. Escher, whose Metamorphose trilogy blends landscapes with geometry.
(Left: Escher, Right: Darien Brito)
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2/ In Tyler Hobbs' Fidenzas series, entropy manifests as the algorithm's level of randomness, reflecting the equilibrium between order and chaos in complex systems. The Spiral – found universally in nature and human history – aptly symbolizes this concept, radiating from and
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3/ In 1965, Albers wrote of the series, “They all are of different palettes, and, therefore, so to speak, of different climates. The choice of the colors used, as well as their order, is aimed at an interaction - influencing and changing each other forth and back… Though the
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2/ Of the 10,000 CryptoPunks, there are only 88 Zombie Punks, 24 Apes, 9 Aliens and exactly 1 Alien Punk smoking a pipe. It symbolizes otherworldly and often misunderstood aspects of digital art within the broader art historical narrative, while also drawing instantaneous
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I have loved reading Curated's Editorials. Dive into this one on Deafbeef:
@_deafbeef
"Collecting the Artist: 0xDEAFBEEF"
We explore Deafbeef's connection to crypto-native culture through various lenses, including his art creation process, “full stack” use of the blockchain, and thematic exploration of crypto-native topics.
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6/ Going further back in time to the 16th Century, countless analogies have been made between this Punk and Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. La Joconde has become the most notorious and desired artwork in the world, one which inspires millions of people each year to flock to the
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5/ The "alienness" of this punk speaks to the outsider status that many digital artists and enthusiasts initially faced. Through persistence and innovation, they continue to carve out a space where once there was none, transforming the alien into the familiar, the fringe into the
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3/ Going further back to the 19th Century, the juxtaposition of the alien and the pipe in CryptoPunk
#7804
relates back to another famous pipe-smoking “other” —Vincent Van Gogh in his famous 1889 Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe. This portrait symbolized the artist’s
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7/ Artudito’s namesake is R2D2, the keeper of memory through extraterrestrial worlds whose role was to store the master copy of data and information, and who had a keen sense of when and where to broadcast it. Through acquiring CryptoPunk
#7804
, among other masterpieces of both
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@DarienBrito
@Kanbas_
Darien, we all really loved this new series, not only is it so beautiful and dynamic, but we love that it lives in reaction to real-time data, visualizing the traffic of the ETH network. Bravo!
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Pease & Harmony
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