NFT Artwork in Beijing Reveals “A New Opportunity”

Photo: Xu Liuliu

The rapid development of technology is changing the world in every aspect, including the world of art. Crypto art, art preserved as part of a blockchain in the form of non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, has taken Beijing’s CAFA Art Museum by storm with the new Cryptoart: A New Opportunity exhibition, the first international large-scale cryptographic digital art exhibition in China.

“The art world is changing with new technologies such as NFT and AI. We are keeping an eye on these changes and presenting them to the public with an open mind,” Zhang Zikang, the president of the CAFA Art Museum, told the Global Times on Tuesday. . “This new exhibition can trigger and stimulate more discussion and exchange on these topics.”

The exhibition, the latest collaboration between the CAFA Art Museum and the Dynamic Art Museum in Milan, features 46 renowned artists from 21 countries, including China, Italy, Spain, the UK and Germany. The works cover a wide range of media, from paintings and installations to digital artworks.

The exhibition focuses on the potential of digitization and the virtual space as incubators for creativity and innovation, and on the important influence of technology in promoting and encouraging the transformation of contemporary art through the presentation of the most interesting and innovative trends in crypto-art.

“We hope that this will promote contemporary art and dialogue, further stimulate creative and innovative thinking, and jointly develop new technological disciplines and the integration of science, technology and artistic research,” said Richard Wearn, who is curating the exhibition with Wang Chunchen and Maya Zhang .

Art and contemporary technology are more closely intertwined than ever before. As technology has brought about radical changes in the world, it has also created new forms of art.

“It is increasingly common for contemporary artists to integrate technology into their artistic process and creative output,” he added.

Blockchain art is just a means, a revolutionary technology that has given many artists the opportunity to “receive recognition, come forward and express themselves with a more appropriate tool for the digital evolution of our society. This is a new medium that has the ability to reach a larger and much younger audiences, bringing them closer to art and turning them into enthusiastic collectors,” said Pier Giulio Lanza, founder and director of the Dynamic Art Museum.

The exhibition will be on display until 24 March.