BREEZY X WHALE: COLDIE
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- Coldie, Proof of Tokens – NFT NYC 2020, 2020
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- Coldie, Winklevoss twins – Decentral Eyes – Variant 02, 2019
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- Coldie, Exploring the Ether, 2020
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- Coldie, The Day We’ve All Been Waiting For, 2020
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- Coldie, Found Coldie’s Respect, 2020
ABOUT THE PROJECT
$Whale and Breezy started a long-term collaboration to provide a narrative to the $WHALE’s “The Vault”, one of the largest and most valuable collections of NFTs in the entire space through art curation.
Each month we highlight a specific creator or theme, providing rich visuals, high-profile artist interviews, gallery events, and more.
For the month of June 2022, the presented artist is COLDIE.
CURATORIAL TEXT
Stereoscopic Truth
Think about illusion, a visual, optical illusion.
What really happens? Our brain and our eyes speak to each other in a simple language but somehow this communication gets mixed up. We perceive something which is different from reality.
Coldie’s art is very real, to the point of almost being disturbing.
His subjects are real, as well as his will for the viewer to take the fruition further, stop and reflect, digest and investigate what they truly are looking at. Coldie’s art is communicative, ironic, sharp, satirical.
With the technique of stereoscopic 3D, for which he is the first artist to have registered it on the blockchain, Coldie is giving us one of the best gifts that art was ever able to provide: a tool for the truth.
While playing with our minds, tricking our eyes and our perception, while we are disoriented and seeing without glasses what we would need glasses for, Coldie is there to inject the truth.
In the same moment when we don’t know what reality is anymore – almost if that ever existed – Coldie provides us with his reality, his truth. And it is in that precise instant that we see clearly, that we want to know more, we want to understand, we want to find our truth.
After all, what is an artist if not the vehicle to start the eternal research for our own personal truthfulness?
Coldie does that majestically. With or without glasses.
#hodl
Eleonora Brizi
PRESS RELEASE
Summer begins under the sign of a great name in the world of crypto art: Coldie. For the month of June, The Vault collection unveils its masterpieces with a journey into the stereoscopic 3D space.
After having revealed his urgency to express his inner world through physical art as a child, in high school he attended a graphics course that, at the age of 17, led him closer to the production of video content, digital collages, and graphic design. A passion that has never abandoned him until it became a job, just out of college, when he was hired as a cover illustrator for L.A. Weekly in Los Angeles. Definitely, Coldie didn’t have much time to undertake his own research but this job exposes him to continuous stimuli that lead him to progressively move from graphics to art. Art that does not always see the light, because Coldie publishes only what he himself would like to possess. The rest remains an exercise closed in the drawer.
Each artist’s work has its own story, which tries to play in unison with the chords of the beholder’s soul. Finding the perfect match is not easy. The observer is not placed in front of a portrait or a work easy to read: after having captured attention, Coldie expects his audience to be willing to question themselves to investigate the deeper meaning of the story. His audience must be emotionally and physically ready:
“Keep a pair of red / cyan glasses in your wallet like I do, never know when you’ll need them”.
But the artist’s communicative determination goes so far as to study a way of using his 3D models in the absence of glasses, translated into animated GIFs that show themselves and let themselves be looked at, guiding the eye to the best vantage point.
This search for depth does not only take place in the space of his works but also develops on different levels of emotional awareness. It’s only in sharing and communicating with others that it finds its purest expression.
“Art is meant to provoke thought and emotion. No matter good or bad, the action of thinking is what I look for in a successful work “.
In the crypto art community, Coldie not only has found a new audience and new inner universes, but he also has created them for us.
Don’t miss the exhibition planned for the end of the month on the Arium platform, where we will discover the 9 masterpieces of the “The Vault” collection.
