End of the mystery: the revelation of who is the buyer of the digital art work of 70 million dollars

A collage of the artist artist stadidense Beeple, a pioneer of the growing virtual art market, sold for 69.3 million dollars (58.2 million euros), a record for a digital work (the first purely digital one to be sold by a large box of bases), but also for the transmission of a subwoofer: 22 million people followed live the Christie’s house.

The work is titled Everydays: the first 5,000 days, a collection of dibujos and animations made during 5 mil consecutive days, coloca a Mike Winkelmann, the right number of Beeple, among the top three world-class artists live, in all of them supportive.

Delante de el están el Británico David Hockney y el estadounidense Jeff Koons, the unique artists of the history of the art he sold for life at a superior price. The initial offer was 100 dollars, but the price is good for the clouds.

And who is the seller? A valley Metakovan, who has developed his identity: being treated by the Indian millionaire Vignesh Sundaresan. God forbid to speak publicly, according to his own words, “Show the Indians that the people of color who can also be patrons”. Here is a blog entry. And in this obtovo mode, last week, the great collage of 5,000 digital images of the stadium artist Beeple.

Attributed to the social ascent of a simple engineering student almost a millionth gracias with his descriptions of the cryptocurrencies in 2013. The import of the sale has the effect of a bomb in the mouth of the substations, the digital art is only a market niche hace tan solo seis meses.

From the artist we know that it’s a graphic designer from Charleston, United States, who creates a variety of digital art works that also include cortometers and beads Creative Commons VJ. After trying to launch a set of VJ loops VJ from Creative Commons has been extensively used, has worked on images for contests Justin Bieber, One Direction, Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, Eminem, Zedd, deadmau5, between others

In the finals of February, after his works, Crossroads, sold for 6.6 million dollars (of the quality Beeple received 10%) on the Nifty Gateway platform, specializing in virtual works. And an animation that was sold in October finals for a symbolic dollar was recently acquired for $ 150,000. Without embarrassment, Winkelmann is not an eccentric creature for the art market. This designer started in May 2007 to work on Every day…. The work submitted meets the result of which production is up to 5,000 days.

For the past 14 years, we have been searching for thousands of Instagram subscribers and collaborating with big brands or famous musicians, attracted by their graphic universe, but do not sell any work to their name. But in one day, a new technology kicked in the orbit, converted to one of the most fashionable artists in the world. This technology has the potential to commercialize works, and whatever is conceivable, and the Internet, from musical albums has the home of personalities in the form of “NFT”, or “token no fungible” (by its English flags).

The mechanism, created in 2017, abarca any virtual object with identity, authenticity and traceability in indisputable and inviolable theory, thanks to the technology called “blockchain”, used for cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.

With AFP information

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