ArtCollection2022

NFT Art Collection

NFT art is a unit of cultural significance that is digitally created, stored and transferred as a digital asset on a public blockchain, offering an embedded proof of origin and ownership, a traceable transmission record and an intrinsic scarcity

Jean-Michel Pailhon & G4SP4RD Ledger NFT Art Committee

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Inaugural Exhibit

The Ledger Digital Art Collection celebrates the revolution brought about by NFT artists and creators across the world. The mission of the collection is to support crypto artworks that mark the cultural significance of the current and forthcoming decades. The collection will acquire and commission NFT artworks that have cultural significance, which means they have social, historic, scientific and aesthetic values.

Refik Anadol is a master of data-driven and machine learning art. He creates astonishing visuals based on data sets from varying sources, such as data from the International Space Station, photographs of nature, fluctuations of quantum noise, MRI, or even real-time environmental data (such as wind, temperature or humidity). Refik Anadol was the first AI artist to be exhibit at MoMA.

An Important Memory for Humanity is Refik Anadol’s groundbreaking limited-edition NFT collection, utilizing data from the world’s first all-civilian space flight. Anadol and his team interpreted data from SpaceX and NASA-funded research institute TRISH on the effects of space travel on the human body.

Cognition #355 Justin Aversano

Chromie Squiggle #9653 Snowfro

Chromie Squiggle #2786 Snowfro

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CryptoPunk #2272

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Screens have been at the heart of art mass production and mass consumption for ages. From screen printing techniques, first developed in China around 1000AD and later popularized in western art culture by e.g. Andy Warhol, to the screens on our devices used to consume both digital art as well as most traditional art we experience in our life.

The "Screens" series is a celebration of modern art. It is inspired by the aesthetics inherent in screen printing along with the compositions and colors of both Bauhaus, Constructivism, and pulp fiction sci-fi covers.

The compositions in "Screens" is based purely on strict geometries and plays with the tension, and symphonies that can be created from combining simple rules. The end result can range from chaotic non-figurative to strongly ordered isometric scenes.

The generative system underlying the rendering mimics the screen printing process by rendering and applying a single color at a time to a master image. Each virtual screen may be more or less aligned with the master, creating a lovely flawed balance to the precision of the rendered geometry.

Chromie Squiggle was the most iconic generative art collection to be dropped on the Art Blocks platform. Created by artist Eric Calderon, known as Snowfrow, Chromie Squiggle has been firmly cemented as a canonical collection within generative art history, touting a large community of builders and collectors.

In 2022, Ledger acquired Chromie Squiggle#2786, due to its interesting aesthetic property #2786 has a color spread equal to 10, making it one of the most colorful Squiggles in the collection.

Ledger also owns Chromie Squiggle #9653, which we had the chance to mint thanks to our partners Venus over Manhattan and the Squiggle DAO. #9653 has the slinky attribute which only 11,6% of all Squiggles possess.

How could we build a digital art collection without including a token from arguably the most iconic NFT collection of all time? Created by Larva Lab, CryptoPunks are the definitive OG collection responsible for inspiring the generative PFP movement in 2021. It is currently the most traded collection on the market, with a steady floor price above the 60 ETH.

Ledger’s Punk #2272 is the face and muse of the Ledger NFT art program. This character is a female punk with two attributes: dark hair and black lipstick. Very classy and minimalistic! Thanks to the commercial rights granted to Punk owners, Ledger has been able to remix #2272 and use her image to create the logo of our program.

Fvckrender is one of the most well known and respected 3D artists in the NFT space today. An innovative artist with a distinctive style and aesthetic, Fvckrender is spearheading ambitious projects like the creation of his own metaverse, LVCIDIA.

VIVID_DREAMS is a 1/1 artwork, minted on Superrare in March 2021. Representative of the artist’s style, the composition depicts a snake, flowers and a black mannequin face in the glossy style that’s typical of Fvckrender’s unique approach to 3D rendering.

This artwork is his last autoportrait, and was sold on the Kollectiv.gg marketplace in 2021.

Carlos Marcial is a Puerto Rican artist who has perfected his craft within 3D realism and who continues to push boundaries in other artistic disciplines, including, most recently, creative coding. Carlos is one of the early adopters of the blockchain technology in art and made history as the first digital artist to make a living solely from NFT sales.

Inspired by this shared love for sovereignty, Carlos made this infinity room the first one to be ever minted on its own contract. This is also the first from his infinity room series that the artist has done and minted since moving to Lisboa, Portugal.

The images that comprise Twin Flames were originally shot in three film formats– Polaroid, 120mm, and 4x5– over the course of fourteen months beginning in May of 2017.

From Wall Street to web3, Ovie Faruq (OSF) is a former trader turned crypto artist.

Inspired by the OG cryptoart and GIF aesthetic, he produces artworks that are culturally significant while also building a strong and loyal community thanks to projects like Rekt guys.

Dave Krugman is a New York based photographer and writer. He is also the founder of ALLSHIPS.CO, a creative community dedicated to the belief that “a rising tide raises all ships”.

His photography is rooted in the idea that beauty lies at the confluences of certain circumstances, to be uncovered and brought to light by careful observation and well-practiced technique. He views the universe as a work of art in itself, and believes that it is the duty of the photographer to study it, and highlight its beauty.

Art Blocks Series 6

From 2021–2022, each Curated project was released as a part of a numbered set, a member of a closed family of projects. Each series number also told a story of art, in its evolution and boundary-pushing. Many felt that every Curated artist represented in a set, was at a moment of intense and beautiful creativity. All 8 series represent critical counterpoints and a roadmap to an exciting and frenzied artistic movement transforming the contemporary art landscape

Jen Stark is a multi-media American artist best known for creating optical art using psychedelic colors and patterns that mimic intricate motifs found in nature. Recently included as one of Fortune’s “NFTy 50,” her work is held in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and MOCA Miami.

In her Artblocks project, Vortex, which dropped in December 2021, Stark examines the phenomena of the spiral is located throughout the natural world, found in everything from nautili and galaxies, to fractals and sacred geometries. Drawing upon the aesthetic practice of her signature paper sculptures, Stark's hand-cut techniques are translated to adapt and evolve within the digital realm through code, brought to life through harmonic sine waves.

VIVID_DREAMS// Fvckrender

Monsieur Monnaie Alotta Money

City Cinematic: A Winter's Tale Dave Krugman

Infinite Memo: Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins Carlos Marcial

Chimera #587 Michael Kozlowski

Para Bellum #504 Matty Mariansky

Screens #415 Thomas Lin Pedersen

Cosmic Reef #489 Leo Villareal

Ancient Courses of Fictional Rivers #244 Robert Hodgin

Memories of Qilin #325 Emily Xie

entretiempos #869 Marcelo Soria-Rodriguez

Let Me Grab My Ledger -- Preliminary Sketch Nicole Ruggiero

Let Me Grab My Ledger Nicole Ruggiero

Vortex #19 Jen Stark

Bitcoin Liberty from CryptoClay New French Touch

Coinhasher Masanori Otaka

Twin Flames #84. Noa & Eyva Goldstein Justin Aversano

Metamorphe #04: Taste Jenni Pasanen & Reuben Wu

professional degen 3 OSF

rektguy #396 OSF

rage OSF

PAR #81 OSF

Ultrasound Data Sculptures #30 Refik Anadol

Justin Aversano is the most well-known photo artist in the NFT space. His work is already iconic and is inspiring a lot of other artists.

The models of the artwork are the Goldstein twins (Noa & Eyva), who were one of the youngest models of the Twin Flames series. They bring a fresh view on this series, with lots of hope in the future brought by the younger generation. This piece is one of the personal favorite of the artist himself. It also brings youth at the center of one of the most important pieces of the Vintage 2022 Ledger NFT Art collection.

Metamorphe is a body of work created by Jenni Pasanen and Reuben Wu.

The goal of this collaboration was to create artwork that is entirely new, using the medium of generative adversarial networks (GAN), combined with painting and photography to result in something unprecedented and fascinating. Humans are emotional beings, their decisions led by their feelings. A machine has no such constraints, enabling it to conceive what human minds could never be capable of on their own.

This method spawns new unimaginable forms and explores undiscovered paths, leading to the creation of a medium which unifies human creativity with machine learning.

This project has produced six works of art over the course of six months’ remote collaboration. Some pieces began from Pasanen’s AI/GAN creations, while others evolved from Wu’s photography.

Through many iterations of passing back and forth, the artists refined and finessed the work intricately by hand.

Alotta Money was a French pioneering crypto artist who produced a wide range of digital art and loved to explore all kinds of virtual and augmented realities. His work is often characterized by a trippy mixture of anarchic, cyberdelic, nonsensical and humorously subversive art.