🍎🐍 Art As A Consequence #10
🌐 Catching up from last weekend in Reggio Emilia with the friends of Oskar Schlemmer, leafing through Meridian by Matt DesLauriers, all about $BOME - can it have another round? 🚀 + other worthy news
Welcome to the tenth edition of the ART AS A CONSEQUENCE weekly briefing. I was in Reggio Emilia last weekend, where I was invited by C. Raman Schlemmer, the grandson of Oskar Schlemmer and iconic Bauhaus master, to attend his lecture on Oskar Schlemmer and the school of Bauhaus, as well as had an insightful private tour by Raman at the Oskar Schlemmer exhibition at Palazzo Magnani and the private art Collection of the Max Mara House; the Collezione Maramotti. You can read all about it below.
I want to discuss the $BOME token (even though it is sizzling down) does it stand another boom? Lastly, my copy of the Meridian book by Matt DesLauriers arrived! 🍎 Grab a snack a happy scrolling.
Lol (lots of love),
Dimitria
Bauhaus and the legacy of Oskar Schlemmer
Oskar Schlemmer is considered one of the brightest minds of the 20th century. The German artist taught and developed his ideas on art, theater, and the relationship between humans and space. His Triadic Ballet is one of the most renowned artworks and a milestone in the history of modern theater and dance. So, with great honour, I accepted Raman’s invitation to travel to Reggio Emilia, 414 km from the Crypto Valley Zug, to attend the lecture on his grandfather’s legacy where he introduced the life and accomplishments of Oskar Schlemmer’s art as well as touched upon wonderful painterly dialogues between his paintings with Constantin Brancusi and Caspar David Friedrich. Memorable was to find out that Oskar Schlemmer’s wife, Tut Schlemmer (1889-1987) was one of the first women in Germany to graduate with a degree in economics. Of course, Raman also touched upon the founders and masters of Bauhaus - such as Gunta Stölzl, the only female teacher to hold the title of “Master”. The lecture also touched upon the Nazi persecution and the affect it had on Oskar Schlemmer; losing his job as a teacher, his artworks being censored, and ultimately his death by a broken heart and spirit.
During the guided tour through the exhibition at the Palazzo Magnani, C. Raman Schlemmer shared a beautiful story about the relationship between Oskar Schlemmer and his peer Paul Klee, who was also a teacher (Master) at the Bauhaus. Between 1916 and 1925, Paul Klee created puppets and marionettes for his son Felix, who was also the youngest student to attend the Bauhaus. Felix was a big admirer of Oskar Schlemmer, especially his theater performances and teaching, so Paul Klee created a puppet for Felix that represented Oskar Schlemmer, his favourite teacher.
Collezione Maramotti
This place has been on my list for a few years. Initiated by Achille Maramotti - the founder of the Max Mara fashion house and prominent art collector, the Collezione Maramotti is located in the same industrial building that functioned as the factory of Max Mara.
After Archille’s death and as stated in his will the collection was made open to the public, following a renovation by English architect Andrew Hapgood in 2005-2007. A well known initiative of the Maramotti concept is that together with the Whitechapel Gallery it celebrates the biennial Max Mara Art Prize for Women, an award given to one young female artist working in the United Kingdom - winners of the past has included Laure Prouvost among others.
The collection includes incredible works by Italian artists covering the Arte Povera period, with gems by Jannis Kounellis, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Piero Manzoni and poetic Osvaldo Licini paintings - all the way to American masterpieces by Alex Katz and Christopher Wool. I loved every moment being there!
MERIDIAN, the publication
My copy of the Meridian publication by Matt DesLauriers has finally arrived! Yoo-hoo. Acquiring a Meridian NFT has been on my wish list for some time now, I guess with the floor slightly above 4 ETH is not a bad time to pick one or make an offer, but I’ve set my eye on a Prismatic style, these start at 9 ETH. If you are not familiar with Meridians this is a great opportunity to fall in love with them. As Casey Reas writes in the foreword of the book:
“Meridian points the way forward for future generations of artists. Matt has created a classic. With strong references to geology and mapping, through its wide range of variations, Meridians feel timeless - they can’t be easily located in the past, present, or future.”
A Meridian is a unique composition forming endless landscapes of colour, rich texture and infinite beauty. Created with JavaScript and code, combining open source with Matt’s own source tools. Semi on-chained, as these NFTs are saved within the Art Blocks engine. The generative art series consists of 1’000 minted NFTs on the ethereum blockchain. Each Meridian can fall in one of its 14 style attribution, and there are 21 colour palettes.
It looks incredible on a screen but also as a physical print. The detail of the work is phenomenal and Matt also has provided signed prints to token holders as well as unsigned open edition prints, and as he puts it:
“These print outputs act as one slice of the entire Meridian project, a sort of window into the algorithm.”
$BOME (BOOK OF MEME) 🚀
by Henry Barrows
Book of Memes took the Crypto-World by storm last weekend. Originally launched on the 14th of March, $BOME on SOLANA reached a $1.8 Billion Market Cap in just two days.
It is important to keep in mind that this was a well-timed overnight success, which was years in the making @Darkfarms1 is a legend in the crypto space, having made dispersed collections of Pepe Memes on various chains. BOME is also a vehicle to try to bring this together.
Let’s let the Darkfarms and the timeline speak:
“TIME TO PRESENT AN ‘EVERYTHING BURRITO’: a shitcoin, an updatable e-magazine, a multitool to create memes, a CC0 meme clipart gallery, own all links to unminted jpegs, who knows maybe even a decentralized social network, an single NFT that probably will the biggest of links to objects and jpegs, and a small .gif on solscan explorer, lol BOOK OF MEME is here to capture the current meme meta, memecoin on most degen chain, data stored on arweave/IPFS/inscriptions, this concept even can be used as social platform with storage across the chains but mainly its a book that i can update and keep adding new memes in new styles that could differ from my main collection here.” -Darkfarms
Based on this idea, the presale Meta of 2024 was launched by $BOME.
Two days after this, with one day being the 24 hour presale, the LP Pool was launched on March 14th.
In the heat of the green candles, Darkfarms reflects philosophically:
and Beeple joins the Chat, twice: 1 + 2
and only 48 hours after launch…
Finally, after all this hype, it’s important to note that this was not an overnight success. Darkfarms put years of work in before landing it big, and now he has shown utmost integrity, even during this massive launch. The future seems bright for $BOME
If you’re interested learning more about Darkfarms, check out this Thread by SundayFundayLFG the biggest holder of DF’s art, or check two of the most popular; Cards & SMOWLs.
Noteworthy News?
🌷The Art Basel & UBS Art Market Report 2023 has been released with a touch on NFTs:
“Jack Butcher’s Checks, an open edition NFT collection, which, along with two other projects, generated over $350 million in sales within the first few months of 2023 from one artist alone.”
🌷 The Artnet Intelligence Report Year Ahead 2024 release a list with the most bankable artists of 2023
🌷Judge Forbids MetaBirkin NFTs by Mason Rothschild (aka Sonny Estival) from Being Displayed at Stockholm Museum (read here)
🌷 There is a new decentralized social protocol everyone is joining called Nostr. A few “famous” people have already jumped on it including Twitter’s founder Jack Dorsey and of course myself - try it out.
🌷 CryptoPunk #7804 sold for 4’850 ETH ($16.4M), making it the second highest onchain sale
🌷 The owner of “Archi, the dog wif hat” whose image was used on the Dogwifhat ($WIF token) was released as an NFT on Foundation, which sold for 1’210 ETH ($4.3M).
🌷 Last but not least, The Guardian reported that three formaldehyde sculptures by Damien Hirst were artificially aged and dated to 1990s while created in 2017. The artist’s studio stated that Hirst dates his works conceptually rather than when these were executed. A lot can be said about that but we ain’t got time for this mess on a Sunday.
That’s all frens!
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