描述
THE FIRST ANIMATED SCULPTURE TO BE EXPORTED FROM THE MUSEUM
EDITION OF 3
Unique Digital Replica
Instigators x Nikolay Koshelev Interview with artists about the project
https://instigators.medium.com/artists-expression-gesture-in-the-digital-age-43c1ef88baf8
About the artist
Nikolay Koshelev was born in Moscow in 1987. A graduate of the Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Art and Industry, in 2014 he was awarded a master’s degree by the New York Academy of Arts. In 2014 he was nominated for the Dedalus Foundation’s award in the “Painting” category. His personal and group exhibitions have been held in New York, Moscow, Milan and Copenhagen, and his works have been sold at Phillips and Sotheby’s. His personal exhibition “The Moon Pool. Archive” (https://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/en/exhibitions/nikolay-koshelev-moon-pool-arkhiv/) is currently open at the Tretyakov Gallery, being the first personal exhibition of a living artist under the age of 35 to ever take place at that institution.
About the work
ALL-SEEING SKULL/ANIMATED FOR ETERNITY is a key symbol among those that migrate throughout Koshelev’s work, given material form here in sculpture. Aesthetically, the image harks back to the mystical subjects widespread during the period of symbolism and the Belle Époque. The multi-coloured glazing is the result of large-scale work carried out with dangerous reagents in the artist’s studio at the stage of moulding the actual sculpture, as well as painstaking work with a 3D designer on the selection of visual effects and textures to best reproduce to the physical version of the object.
ALL-SEEING SKULL/ANIMATED FOR ETERNITY Nikolay Koshelev is one of the key artefacts of the action-project “Exported from the Museum” (https://instigators.medium.com/from-museum-halls-to-invisible-walls-of-crypto-nft-universe-221c1a5dca98) – an experiment with the conventions of the museum world. It is said that if a work gets into a museum, it’ll never escape from the clutches of its storerooms again. In his action, Koshelev creates a 3D version specifically for the blockchain, thereby pulling the work out of the museum where his personal exhibition is currently taking place.
UNLOCKABLE CONTENT:
The purchase of ‘Moon Dust Unique Digital Replica All-Seeing Skull | Animated for Eternity’ will unlock the MPEG-4 looped sequence video to the full-res file (20mb file, sized at 1080px x 1024px, 8sec).
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About the exhibition
https://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/en/exhibitions/nikolay-koshelev-moon-pool-arkhiv
Number of copies made
Two editions of the work are on sale, the third one remaining in the possession of the authors of the work, Nikolay Koshelev and Instigators.