Breezy X $Whale - XCopy
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 October, the presented artist is XCOPY.
CURATORIAL TEXT
There are 24 artworks by Xcopy in The Vault collection; some of them date back to 2018. The iconic style, inimitable, fun, enthralling, colorful, flashing, and in eternal motion, is the aesthetic that Xcopy chose to present artworks that are death-themed and dystopia-themed. Xcopy’s works are a commentary on society and life in a very ironic and satirical way that will forever be recognizable at first sight.
The art of Xcopy is thorny, inconvenient. But it’s hypnotizing, and you can’t stop looking at it while your eyes are getting painful. It’s almost like the constant movement of the works is meant to make you feel uncomfortable, so now you are forced to stop and think about what you are seeing.
The punk spirit of contrasting everyday problems through a very invasive art practice that almost makes you forget about them; the search of the “error” and the imperfection as a metaphor of the unexpected in life; the “malfunction” of the visual makes his/her/their art to be like an addiction.
Thank you, Xcopy. We will just make sure that when it gets too painful, we will buy glasses.
Eleonora Brizi
PRESS RELEASE
As announced a few weeks ago, $Whale and Breezy started a long-term collaboration to provide a narrative to the $WHALE Vault, one of the largest and most valuable collections of NFTs in the entire space through art curation.
Each month we will highlight a specific creator or theme, through rich visuals, high-profile artist interviews, gallery events, and more. The focus is to foster an interactive experience complete with catalogs, newsletters, and other media to explore.
For the month of October, the first presented artist is XCOPY. There aren’t many words to be added to XCOPY’s art, but we are going through it and enjoying ourselves. There are 24 artworks by XCOPY in the $Whale Vault, some dating 3 years back. The works are all tokenized on SuperRare and it is amazing to see how XCOPY was there from the beginning.
“It is a blast to go back to enjoy all the art by XCOPY, piece by piece while having fun with all the tags that are pretty much the main body of the whole artwork description. I am usually very curious to know about the meaning a piece of art has for its creators, but with XCOPY, it was more about asking questions on art and vision through looking at these 24 masterpieces.
It wasn’t like talking about art, it was like talking through the art.
Here are some questions I thought of while looking at their art:
https://superrare.com/artwork-v2/the-amulet-7422
From the Latin amuletum: “an object that protects a person from trouble”. What would you ask your Amulet to protect you from?
https://superrare.com/artwork-v2/wework-boi-6100
Where do you think the “smart” cities are taking us? Co-working, co-housing, co-everything.. co-homologation.
https://superrare.com/artwork/us-and-them-3370
When I read the title “Us and Them” I instantly think about the song by Pink Floyd. A song that is not only about war and its two opposite divisions, but especially about human nature.
In your artwork there are two different worlds, the one underwater and the one existing in the air. Who is us and who is them here and why you left out the earth, that stays between water and air?
https://superrare.com/artwork-v2/one-love-7770
Does love come in an open edition?
And many more”.
Eleonora Brizi
ARIUM SHOW
