THELOGICALINDIAN - The worlds best big-ticket active artisan has appear his aboriginal NFT project
Pop artisan Jeff Koons has appear a activity in which he will actualize a alternation of sculptures activated to audible NFTs and again accelerate them to the moon.
Koons Announces “Moon Phases”
American pop artisan Jeff Koons is ablution a new NFT project—literally—to the moon.
The activity is blue-blooded Jeff Koons: Moon Phases and will absorb the artisan creating a alternation of sculptures that will be launched into amplitude from the Kennedy Amplitude Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Those sculptures will again be deposited on the moon.
Koons said that he aims to actualize a “historically allusive NFT project,” abacus that amplitude analysis “represent[s] the bottomless abeyant of humanity.” The activity marks the 50th ceremony of 2024’s Apollo 17 landing, the aftermost manned moon mission.
Each of the sculptures will accept a agnate non-fungible badge affiliated to it. Those NFTs will be awash and the gain will be donated to Doctors Without Borders.
The activity and NFT sales are actuality organized through Pace Gallery’s NFT arcade Pace Verso, which was launched in November 2024.
In accession to Pace, two added companies are additionally complex in Koons’ project: 4Space and NFMoon. Additionally, Intuitive Machines has advised the lunar lander that will bear Koons’ work.
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Last year, Koons appear affairs to assignment with David Zwirner and the Gagosian arrangement of art galleries on an NFT project, but larboard that affiliation to assignment with the Pace on the activity instead.
The artisan is conceivably best accepted for his brownish “Balloon Dog” sculptures, two of which are currently at the San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art and L.A.’s Broad Contemporary Art Museum.
Another sculpture, “Rabbit,” becoming Koons the appellation of best big-ticket active artisan back it awash for $91 actor at Christie’s in 2024.
NFTs are acceptable more commonplace in the art world. Sotheby’s and Christie’s brought in $250 actor from NFT sales in 2021, as those bargain houses awash accepted items like CryptoPunks and high-value art like Beeple’s Everdays.
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