NFTs Timeless and Ancient Art Exhibition | Dec 28 to 30, 2021
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Opening Reception: Tuesday, December 28th, 2021, 5–8 pm.
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Gallery Hours December 29 – 30: 1–8 pm, 2021
NFTs Timeless and Ancient Art Exhibition | Saphira & Ventura Gallery & Bequest NFT
Curator: Alcinda Saphira
Saphira & Ventura Art Design Architecture and New York International Contemporary Art Society (NYICAS), in collaboration with Bequest NFT Partners, present an exhibition at One Art Space, 23 Warren Street, New York NY 10007 on December 28-30th 2021. Public gallery hours will be 1-8pm, with the opening reception on December 28, 5-8pm.
The NFTs; Timeless and Ancient at Exhibition will curate a unique experience connecting artwork and historical narrative that will carry from the ancient past through the present.
The exhibition will demonstrate the innovative NFT art evolution as well as promote conversation about ancient and contemporary original works, in both physical & digital forms, with a special demonstration of inseparable “digi-physical” NFT linking and authentication using modern technologies.
The exhibition’s imagery and vision is curated by Alcinda Saphira, which presents NFT art from ancient cultures, and artists represented by the Saphira & Ventura Gallery and special guests, including global artists: Alexandre Mavignier ( Brazil), Phillipe De Kraan ( Amsterdam ), Roman Ferral (France) Victoria Citro (Argentina) , Sleeping Giant (USA), Ghost Shadows (USA) Phyllis Shipley (USA), Vikash Jha, (India) ARO (Canada) Samar ( Egito), Margarida Valente (Portugal), Tomaso Albertini,(Italy), Yusuke akamatsu (Japan), Roby Frankel ( USA).
Headquartered in Midtown, Manhattan, the Saphira & Ventura Gallery has transcended the traditional gallery model paradigm as an early pioneer of the new segment that embraces NTFs. In this effort, it has dedicated a new department to this digital intersection. The gallery’s mission is to support and accelerate this emerging category within the crypto art community, as well as highlight NFTs that connect the timeless staying power and cultural meaningfulness of ancient art and cultural artifacts. With this visionary eye, in a joint venture partnership with Bequest NFT Partners, Saphira Ventura is exhibiting a 3D NFT series of ancient artworks from Mesoamerican, Egyptian and European cultures that introduces collaboration concepts with contemporary digital artists.
This exhibition shines a spotlight on the past, present, and rapidly evolving future of art that is at the intersection of an increasing number of emerging technologies. By bridging ancient and contemporary artwork across novel artistic mediums, the exhibition intends to demonstrate that as technology evolves, so does art, with new ‘canvas’ capabilities and commercial blockchain processes becoming part of the narrative.
This new art renaissance, with web3 governance and tokenized artistic expression, highlights meaningful creative possibilities with sustainable cultural and philanthropic impact. While the desire to own and honor a work of art or piece of history has persisted throughout time, technological innovation has expanded artistic expression in ways previously unimaginable, promoting a new generation of creative talent, aspirational collection, and discovery, and the collaborative visionaries who underpin this change in the art world.
This cultural evolution enables all of us to realize and experience the benefit of new and existing collections in non-traditional ways, through the underlying Web3 technology behind the NFT movement as well as story-telling capabilities powered by extended reality (XR) and Metaverse innovation.
Artists, collectors, and curious explorers embarking on this NFT journey within art history are invited to think about its “ancient future” implications at this unique evolutionary merger of culture, art and technology, and join the conversation where we will showcase what’s relevant, demonstrate what’s possible, and connect it with ancient art as extensions of art forms from the past to label certain projects “4,000 years in the making”
