CRYPTO-ART PIONEER KEVIN ABOSCH DROPS “1111” 23rd MARCH 2021
Conceptual artist and crypto-art pioneer Kevin Abosch made headlines across the globe in 2018 with his groundbreaking work IAMACOIN as the first person to tokenize himself in the form of 10 million ERC-20 tokens on the Ethereum blockchain.
Later that year his work YELLOW LAMBO, a yellow neon sculpture comprised of 42 alphanumerics was sold to the former COO of Skype for US$400,000, more than the cost of an actual Lamborghini Aventador automobile. The sculpture was informed by Abosch’s non- fungible token (NFT) YLAMBO, also in 2018.
On the 23rd of March, 2021 Abosch will bring his project 1111 to OpenSea, the largest NFT marketplace. This work has been shrouded in secrecy for over a year and is related to a body of work entitled Hexadecimal Testimony, described on Abosch’s official website as:
“Cryptographic keys, some truncated, sublimate into a lingual arcana and a repository of sacred knowledge.”
Fans and collectors of the artist’s work are treated to occasional tweets that suggest the work is any thing but ordinary: “Do you collect the art, or does the art collect you?” / “Never fear art!” / “Please pay attention.”
Abosch has revealed that his colorful and varied grids of cryptographic alphanumerics are “embedded with emergent intelligence.” The NFT is on the Ethereum blockchain and the content and metadata are stored on the Arweave Permaweb.
“A number of surprises and features including a DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) will be revealed over time,” Abosch explains.
The latest information about the 1111 drop can be found on the artist’s twitter page @kevinabosch, by joining the Telegram channel t.me/nft1111 and on the official 1111 site kevinabosch.com/1111.
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