2021/05/01

Tina Rivers Ryan on “the True Perversity of Using NFTs to Sell Digital Art”

“By asking his collectors to immolate their receipts, Klein took his immaterial works out of circulation, leaving the buyer with nothing but a sensibility; the NFT is the receipt’s revenge, leaving its collector with nothing but an asset.”
Tina Rivers Ryan, media art historian and curator at Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Art Gallery, invoking Yves Klein’s Zones de sensibilité picturale immaterielle (1959–62) to elicidate “the true perversity of using NFTs to sell digital art”
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