Painting An NFT
2021
Miltos Manetas
Ongoing collection to chart the passage for painting in the continuous current, with writing for work informed by or informing painted practice. Images, modelled and actual paint all twisted like a vine, etc. Since 2009
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Haunting the Chapel
2020
Siebren Versteeg
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Algorithmically generated image printed on canvas, subdomain
41 × 29 in104.1 × 73.7 cm
On Sept. 23, auction-house giant Christie’s announced plans to sell its first nonfungible token, or NFT, at an auction. This was just one week after the record-setting $100,000 sale at auction of a digital art piece that also used a blockchain-based token to vest the collector’s new ownership rights.
Meanwhile, Anthony Pompliano, Morgan Creek Digital co-founder and partner, wrote on Sept. 21: “I personally believe that the digital art market cap will grow to become larger than the physical art market cap. This may sound ridiculous today.”
Clearly, the digital art market is heating up. Duncan Cock Foster, co-founder at digital gallery Nifty Gateway, told Cointelegraph: “The digital art movement is growing at an incredibly rapid pace. The amount of growth we are seeing has surprised everyone involved I think.”
I Too Need Watering
2020
Osinachi
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Osinachi, who grew up in Aba, Nigeria, produces drawings using Microsoft Word, where he utilizes the basic limited design palette of the word processing software to create narrative illustrations. Africa’s foremost cryptoartist, Osinachi‘s works are further registered in the blockchain and sold as non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
