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On 12 March, Christie’s launches Robert Alice's SOURCE [On NFTs], our first on-chain generative art collection with 125 unique works by Robert Alice. The project marks the US launch of Alice and TASCHEN's seminal publication On NFTs, out of which SOURCE was inspired.
Coinciding with the launch of On NFTs, the first major full-scale art historical study on the digital medium published by TASCHEN and edited by Robert Alice, works from SOURCE [On NFTs] are the artistic twin to the art historical work carried out by Alice. It is the project that came out of the book. Works from SOURCE [On NFTs] were commissioned by TASCHEN to be the generative endpapers (book linings) in On NFTs, further tying the project to the book itself. They are the first and last NFTs illustrated in the publication.
Referencing the importance of blockchains as a new form of publishing, and the idea of NFTs as fundamentally made out of text, the works poetically distil the pre-history of NFTs into large contemporary digital colour fields paintings. Each artwork, made entirely out of text, is a collision of two of these source texts, violently collided together using NLP algorithms to create new histories.
The source material was intentionally selected by the artist to reveal the cultural ecology of the origin of NFTs. Disparate histories entwine to create new meaning, as works of science fiction collide with seminal digital art history manifestos while cryptography whitepapers collide with 7th-century Chinese philosophical texts.
Layered into large colour field works, fragments of the concrete poetry veer between legibility and illegibility, order and chaos. A form of digital graffiti, the text functions as the gestural pigmentation of these digital paintings, while recasting the tradition of colour fields as a celebration of the RGB colour spectrum that characterises digital art.
SOURCE [On NFTs], Robert Alice will follow a ‘Dutch auction’ model. Pricing details to follow.
We’re delighted to present this new project by Robert Alice, whose work, Block 21 (42.36433° N, -71.26189° E) (from Portraits of a Mind), included the first NFT ever sold at Christie’s in October 2020. Follow us for more announcements regarding this historic project, including a major institutional announcement.
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