While blockchain offers a safe, trusted, and seamless way of authenticating, storing, and trading digitized assets, web3 and fine art currently go shoulder to shoulder. Being an irreplaceable branch of blockchain, NFTs offered a much-needed opportunity to make the masterpieces of the geniuses of the past accessible to everyone.
The upcoming collection celebrating art by a renowned Swedish artist is an illustrative example of the above-stated. The iconic abstract artworks by Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) will be immortalized on the blockchain and become available for purchase by the public.
The respected artist's art pieces were inspiring younger generations many years after her death. Hilma af Klint herself didn't want her paintings to be shown earlier than 20 years after her death, and this condition was met to the fullest.
In recent years, the interest in af Klint's futuristic esoteric art has greatly increased. Thus, the exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York held in 2018 became the best-attended event in the venue's history. It featured the artist's Paintings for the Temple series of works, which took the creative community by storm.
In 2022, all of Hilma's artworks were collected to make an official Catalogue Raisonné produced by Stolpe Publishing, which was divided into seven volumes.
Thus, Hilma af Klint's Paintings for the Temple are included in The Catalogue Raisonné owned by the non-profit Hilma af Klint Foundation. Some of these masterpieces have never been exhibited till now. Currently, her pioneering abstract artworks, which were so much popular until the 1980s, are coming to web3 to be immortalized on blockchain for many generations to come.
To make this possible, Hilma af Klint Foundation has partnered with Acute Art and the Pharell Williams-backed Gallery of Digital Assets (GODA). The collaboration resulted in the digitalization of Paintings for the Temple, which contains Hilma af Klint’s most important art pieces in VR and AR produced by Acute Art.
The unsurpassed collection of 193 masterpieces by Hilma af Klint has two editions, with one set to be put up for auction via GODA, and the second non-commercial part will remain with Stolpe Publishing. The bidding will be held in a Dutch auction format starting from November 14th up to November 17th. After the auction is closed, the lowest of the top bids will be announced as the final sale price for each NFT.
Embrace the power of art by one of the most futuristic, extraordinary, and mysterious female artists of the past by joining Hilma af Klint's Paintings for the Temple auction.
