“Luis Alberto was a born cartoonist and he did it almost compulsively on envelopes, napkins, newspapers or any piece of paper in front of him,” he explained. catarina spinettadaughter of the national rock legend, in the presentation of the first part of the digital artistic collection “Figuration”. The artistic drawings, created by the mythical singer Luis Alberto Spinetta, were transmuted into the collectible world of NFTs hand in hand platform Enigma.
The official launch will be on January 23 with the first series: “Pictures”. The works made on small colored paper, 8 by 8 centimeters, do not have a date or other available data and implied severe cataloging work. The production of twelve pieces drawn by hand and turned into digital collectibles, include the characters with their six different colored backgrounds, which bring them to a total of 72 unique images.
In the presentation, the art platform invited those interested to be part of the pre-sale of the musician’s digital productions for their personal use. The NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) are non-exchangeable certificates that grant authenticity to a digital work for patrimonial use. The acquisition of the NFT allows you to have them as a certified avatar, capturing or printing it in infinite dimensions, due to its very high resolution, but without permission for commercial use.
“Figuration, is a tribute and an invitation to rediscover Spinetta and an extension of his legacy, his message and his sensitivity. Figuration is the name we gave to his art, to his digital art within Enigma, what that label means is a letter that he made for the first album by Almond and it seemed to me that it closed for this because of the figures and because it flies, it is a subject that blows your mind, like everyone else, ”explained the rocker’s daughter for the TELAM News Agency.
Regarding the choice of portraits as the starting point of the collection, catarina spinetta clarified: “The re-deformed characters like several that were made public are great and funny. It’s like their genius in an ironic way, they are spectacular. The question is, how do I feel identified with this character who were little drawings made with a red marker, and different fibers?”
“The centrality of the figure of Spinetta adds an interesting space to the platform, promoted as a creative community under web 3.0, decentralized, which provides tools for creators, collectors, among others,” they explain from enigma.art and they add: “With this new proposal launched to collect drawings, a new perspective of treasure and creation of a common community opens up, which beyond the NFTs and the digitality of the work that initiates consumption, brings back Flaco Spinetta and their images to the everyday arena”.
The visual works of Luis Alberto Spinetta They had their career in National Library, after his death in 2012, with the sample “Spinetta: the books of good memory” cured by Eduardo Marti. “He never stopped drawing and he had a notion that he was very good at it, not only did he do the art for as many records as the first of Almondthe one of Rabid fish and the brochures of the shows”, recalls the daughter of the emblematic composer of Argentine rock.
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