1st physical blockchain show ‘Perfect & Priceless’ exhibition - this November is 3 years since ITs opening!
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💫3 years ago, Kate Vass Galerie hosted its first physical blockchain art group exhibition: Perfect & Priceless Value Systems. We had on display 13 artists, among them such great names like: Kevin ABOSCH, Larva Labs, Rhea Myers (aka former Rob Myers), Distributed Gallery, Harm van den Dorpel and more.
As a part of the 3 years celebration and the development of things, we are happy to have 2 sealed cryptopunks for sale (see more information below) as well as new and original work by one of the OGs - Rhea Myers! Rhea Myers iconic works from the show 'Perfect and Priceless' became available as unique NFTs on Foundation App.
Rhea Myers artworks at the ‘Perfect & Priceless’ exhibition @ Kate Vass Galerie, Zurich in 2018.
Print on display here: First Halvening (Bitcoin Block Hash), 8 Bit Palette, Spots, 2018.
On November 28th 2012 with block number 210000 Bitcoin underwent its first "halvening" with the reward paid for finding each new block in the blockchain dropping from fifty to twenty-five Bitcoins. Halvenings occur approximately every four years and have been both celebrated as a milestone in the development of the network protocol and commiserated as a loss of revenue to the miners that find new blocks. They have become notable dates in the Bitcoin calendar with almost a festival air about them.
Here the binary data of the cryptographic hash that is the "proof-of-work" for the halvening block is rendered in the visual language of (post)modernist abstraction rather than as the sequence of numbers that it was broadcast to the Internet as.
The blockchain art pioneer Rhea Myers from New York visualised cryptocurrency transactions in his continuing series Blockchain Aesthetics while referencing concept art from the 1970s. To transmit crypto from one wallet to another (peer to peer), a hash rate was generated and compressed through a mathematical encryption method. The hashrates are always the same length independently from the size of information they contain. The artist rendered Bitcoin transactions as rows of coloured squares or circles. Each byte of the 32-byte transaction had caused as a square or a process of a 256-colour palette. The transactions have been displayed on a monitor as colourful abstract moving images with a narrative context, accompanied by 4 unique prints. Although the imagery reminds us of 4096 Colours by Gerhard Richter or the spot paintings by Damien Hirst, they have a different connotation.
In 2021, with a fast spread of NFT-inclusion, it made sense that the physical work finds its digital analogue as an NFT to serve an excellent accompanying piece or as an individual work of art that reflects the historical essence and continues the series of Blockchain Aesthetics. The reserve price is 10 ETH if bought separately from the print, some are already sold. We have a special bundle deal for NFT, 2021 +unique print, 2018 please contact us for more information via email: info@katevassgalerie.com
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Its good to see the artwork found its way back to the home gallery to exhibit and sell again! DM if you are interested.
Sealed Cryptopunks on display at Kate Vass Galerie at the opening of the show Perfect & Priceless, 16th November 2018, Zurich.
#CRYPTOPUNKS
The CryptoPunks are 24x24 pixel art images, generated algorithmically. Most are punky-looking guys and girls, but there are a few rarer types mixed in: Apes, Zombies and even the odd Alien. Every punk has their own profile page that shows their attributes as well as their ownership/for-sale status.
John Watkinson, of larvalabs, has written code that lives on the blockchain that anyone can use to buy and sell Punks with anyone else in the world. An interesting aspect of this system is that they no longer have any control over the code running CryptoPunks! Once it was released onto the blockchain it became permanently embedded there and can no longer be modified by anyone.
For the exhibition Perfect & Priceless in 2018, John Watkinson created a high-quality signed print of a Cryptopunk. Then he transfers the blockchain ownership of the Cryptopunk to a new Ethereum address and includes the private key to that address in a tamper-proof envelope. This way, the buyer got to acquire the art both physically and digitally. During last years, new release from Larva Labs Meebits were also integrated for the Sealed Cryptopunks under the same ETH address sealed in the envelope, so the concept stays the same.
Provenance:
Both were exhibited for a very first time by Kate Vass Galerie in November 2018 at the historical Blockchain art group show Perfect & Priceless. Once again, Cryptopunk was exhibited at Cadaf in May 2019 in New York, sold to one of the top collectors and stay in the private ownership since. Now available for sale from its original gallery Kate Vass Galerie, the ownership is confirmed. Shipping costs are beared by the Buyer. We have 2 Punks and both are in great condition. The print and the COA are with its original frames. Contact us for more: info@katevassgalerie.com
Some info from our catalogue of Perfect & Priceless and will add some photos from the opening of the show back in 2018!