“As we’ve been exploring spaces over the course of COVID, I was thinking about how artists are exploring these imaginative spaces, escaping reality, and the tools they’re using to create these spaces and how things like the metaverse and the digital world inform the imagination,” Velicescu tells Art & Object. “The show is ten different artists, their tools are different, a photographer, animator, generative artist, all working with different tools to interpret this.”
In November, another NFT by Beeple sold for $28.9 million, and works by CryptoPunk 4156 have sold in the $7-10 million range. “The idea that something like that could sell for that amount of money definitely shook the traditional art world and forced them to pay attention to something that they had brushed off previously,” notes Velicescu, whose buyers tend to be from the tech world. “Artworks that are compelling and have something to say will stand the test of time and will persevere in this process.”