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Kevin Abosch
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Utopian Propagation
On 28 October 2016 Abosch installed a work entitled "Impossible Promises" consisting of 100 painted oil barrels in the Millennium Park at the Bogotá Museum of Modern ArtWEB, PROPAGACIÃN UTÃPICA - KEVIN ABOSCH,weblink Museo de Arte Moderno Bogotá, WEB, The Artist Who Became a Bitcoin,weblink Forbes,Potato #345
In 2015, Abosch's photographic work of a potato, "Potato #345" was reportedly sold to an unnamed businessman in Europe for a â¬1,000,000,.NEWS, Haigney, Sophie, 2018-06-05, When Crypto Meets Conceptual Art, Things Get Weird, en-US, The New York Times,weblink 2021-06-29, 0362-4331, WEB, Michael, Zhang, This Photo of a Potato Sold for Over $1,000,000,weblink PetaPixel, 21 January 2016, 25 January 2016, The photo was taken in 2010 and is one of three versions of the print in existence.I AM A COIN
In January 2018 Abosch created 10,000,000 virtual artworks consisting of crypto-tokens on the Ethereum Blockchain.WEB, Artist turns his blood into cryptocurrency,weblink CNN, 1 February 2018,Forever Rose
On 14 February 2018 Abosch's virtual artwork "Forever Rose", consisting of a single ERC-20 token on the Ethereum blockchain, sold to a group of ten art collectors for a record-breaking USD$1 million.CNN article - Crypto-artwork of a rose sells for $1 millionNEWS,weblink When Crypto Meets Conceptual Art, Things Get Weird - New York Times, 2018-09-14, en,Yellow Lambo
The artwork is composed of 42 inline alphanumerics in yellow neon representing the blockchain contract address for a crypto token called YLAMBO, which Abosch also created. Abosch named the artwork after the hashtag #lambo, which cryptocurrency enthusiasts often use in online forums. On 26 April 2018, at the If So, What? art fair in San Francisco, California, Abosch's sculpture entitled "Yellow Lambo" was sold to former Skype COO Michael Jackson for US$400,000, more than the base price of a 2018 Lamborghini Aventador motor car.WEB,weblink The artist who once sold a photo of a potato for $1 million just sold a cryptocurrency-inspired artwork called 'YELLOW LAMBO' for more than the price of an actual Lamborghini, Bernard, Zoë, Business Insider, 2020-03-31,PRICELESS
A collaboration between Abosch and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei primarily made up of two standard ERC-20 tokens on the Ethereum blockchain, called PRICELESS (PRCLS is its symbol).NEWS,weblink Artists Ai Weiwei and Kevin Abosch Are Using the Blockchain to Make Us Question What's 'PRICELESS', 2018-08-17, Motherboard, 2018-09-14, en-us, WEB,weblink PRICELESS by Kevin Abosch & Ai Weiwei, PRICELESS by Kevin Abosch & Ai Weiwei, 2018-09-14, One of these tokens is forever unavailable to anyone, but the other is meant for distribution and is divisible up to 18 decimal places, meaning it can be given away one quintillionth at a time. A nominal amount of the distributable token was âburnedâ (put into digital wallets with the keys thrown away), and these wallet addresses were printed on paper and sold to art buyers in a series of 12 physical works. Each wallet address alphanumeric is a proxy for a shared moment between Abosch and Ai.MAGAZINE,weblink Ai Weiwei macht nun Kunst auf der Blockchain, WIRED, 2018-09-14, de,1111 series
The series, described as the first AI and cryptographic NFT (Non-Fungible Tokens) art project of this scale, comprises 1,111 unique generative artworks minted on OpenSea starting March 23, 2021, by Kevin Abosch. WEB,weblink 1111 by Kevin Abosch, OpenSea, 2024-05-05, The works feature automated hash data represented as figurative NFTs. As of May 2024, the series includes only 999 pieces, with 112 NFTs having been 'burnt' by the artistâsent to the ETH burn address, rendering them unavailable for sale.In April 2021, Abosch announced his intention to launch a satellite to study climate change WEB,weblink 1111 Kosmos Project, 2024-05-05, and to create and distribute NFTs to the owners of 1111s. These NFTs are to be airdropped directly into the owners' wallets. As of May 2024, the launch date for the satellite remains pending.National Gallery of Ireland
In December 2013 the National Gallery of Ireland acquired three photographic portraits by Abosch for inclusion in the permanent National Portrait Collection. The portraits are of Bob Geldof, Olwen Fouéré and Brian O'Driscoll.National Gallery of Ireland Press release {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216023828weblink |date=2013-12-16 }}Animoca Brands
Kevin Abosch is creative director for Animoca Brands.WEB,weblink HotCopper {{!, ASX Share Prices, Stock Market & Share Trading Forum|website=HotCopper|language=en|access-date=2020-03-31}}References
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