The Best of Art Basel 2022 - Tezos Art Exhibition
The Tezos art community, a globally diverse and inclusive ecosystem of artists, has grown from small indie platforms to now boasting some of the highest sales and largest marketplaces with new artists and collectors joining every day. During Art Basel, over 4,000 fair goers experienced the exhibit and nearly 2,500 collected a generative NFT. If you collected a piece during the week, check out this post on where to find it and what to do now!
Tezos Lounge at Art Basel 2022 TEZOS (Forbes)
We are delighted to share a couple of articles about Tezos’ Art Basel exhibition:
Forbes -- The Best Of Art Basel 2022: "NFTs are here to stay. Blockchains such as the most sustainable of them all, Tezos, are helping re-imagine the digital canvas for generative artists. As with technology, art is in a constant state of evolution. Tezos’ Art Basel exhibition explores the evolutionary intersection between art and technology, where artists are reimagining what generative art could be in this new medium."
The Art Newspaper -- From anti-Putin Pussy power to Chance the Rapper's new track: the latest gossip from Art Basel, Plus, a super exclusive club, Tezos takes on 1970s tech and the door to Switzerland swings wide open: "One of the most techy works at Art Basel this year is a program written more than four decades ago for one of the first home computers. Austrian physicist Herbert W. Franke’s MONDRIAN (1979) was a homage to the Swiss artist’s canonic geometric compositions. Franke, now 95, worked with the blockchain company Tezos to update his pioneering program and it is now on view in the Tezos NFT Lounge at Art Basel. Visitors to the stand were reaching for their digital wallets—or creating them on the spot—to mint editions of the generative work for free at the scan of a QR code."
ARTnews -- Marina Abramovic on the Eve of Her First NFT: Web3 Is ‘Undoubtedly the Future’: "Abramović’s NFT of The Hero (2001) will be launched on Tezos, a proof-of-stake blockchain that is considered to be more environmentally friendly and less energy intensive than others. She is slated to announce details of her inaugural NFT during a conversation with CIRCA Artistic Director Josef O’Connor at Art Basel on 18 June."
Art Basel -- ‘Only the hero can save us’: Marina Abramović on her first ever NFTs, The performance art legend will enter the Web3 space on a white horse: "MA: You know, my work passed beyond the art community so long ago and became something that resonated with a much younger generation. To me, these new Web3 communities are so important because they are seeking new adventures. They are seeking new ideas. We must pay attention to that community. They are the future."