BREEZY X WHALE: ALOTTA MONEY MEMORIAL
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- Alotta Money, Marguerite Thérèsélastos, 2020
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- Alotta Money, Miners versus Banks, 2020
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- Alotta Money, 70 7h3 M00N, 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 March 2022, the presented artist is ALOTTA MONEY.
CURATORIAL TEXT
A very personal curatorial text
I was in Mexico on March 4th, I had many meetings scheduled in the morning, and it was already too late even to check my Twitter, so I didn’t.
I got on a call with one good friend from a good platform to discuss some shiny and happy projects.
The wifi wasn’t the best, and it was before my coffee. I asked how everyone was doing, smiling. And I hear my friend – calling from a very important crypto exchange office – saying: “well, very sad for the loss of a lot of money.” I think, “oh, Ethereum is doing very bad, I don’t even want to get into that,” so I nervously laughed and kept focusing on art projects.
I received a message later from someone else who was in the meeting and who knows me very well. They completely understood that I had no clue about what was said to me on the call. They said: “Today is a sorrowful day; you didn’t check your Twitter, have you? We lost Alotta Money.”
I wanted to cry, to say that I was sorry for the incredible misunderstanding. I apologized to everyone. But later, while smiling, I thought: “I am his perfect victim; this is exactly the whole point of his name. I am sure this guy is now laughing very very hard.”
I know you are laughing.
Eleonora Brizi
PRESS RELEASE
For March, with the $Whale Community, we decided to honor and remember the amazing artist Alotta Money, who left us too early, but who will eternally breathe through his inspiring art and funniest GIFs.
Alotta Money has a unique and immediately recognizable style, with which he translated some of the most iconic masterpieces in Art History into the modern technological language, also combining collaborative work, personal experience, and stimulating new journeys.
So, he was an artist who has always approached art with curiosity and a desire to know since he was 11 years old, with his first piece of digital art on Commodore64. These are the qualities that brought him to the digital art world.
Alotta Money, in fact, immediately realizes that he had to join Twitter, where all the actors were. This is how he chose his stage name:
When I created the account, my head was filled with info about money etc. That is why I picked a name expressing the money tornado I was in.
From the creation of that Twitter account, the story of Alotta Money in the crypto community began in 2018, when he just finished building his first gallery in Cryptovoxels. And from there he was completely immersed in its creative fervor in which he brings his geek side, between the love for cinema, video games, and science fiction.
The world can be a terrible place full of ugliness. Art can save us from all this and help us face this harsh condition.
And in what way? Without taking ourselves too seriously:
I’m on a mission to take you to silly places, drop some silly seeds in your pockets and hope you’ll water them.
This incredible artist left us with a dream, which is also our dream, that is to have more art-loving collectors involved, why not, in the creative part of what he collects, because:
Artists need fans to feel warm inside their little bodies, not just alotta money™.
Enjoy the creations of a true pioneer in this space so dear to us and take part in the exhibition scheduled for the end of the month on the Arium platform. The exhibition will include works from The Vault collection and others kindly granted by the community.
ARIUM SHOW
Visit the space: https://arium.xyz/spaces/whale-community-alotta-money-tribute
Alotta Money Memorial Gallery https://t.co/AHSIL9ZT7s
— WHALE Members (@WHALEMembers) March 26, 2022
