Speculative bubble surfing the digital tide or the reality of a growing market?
The controversy has raged since a 100% digital work by Beeple, a total unknown in the artistic community named Max Winkelmann, sold for a record price of $ 69.3 million, on March 11, at Christie's.
Looking more closely at this colorful mosaic made up of 5,000 images collected since 2007, hence its title
Everyday: the First 5000 days
, there is nothing to fall back on.
“It's neither ugly nor beautiful!
It has nothing to do with art and it's just impossible to judge aesthetically.
To take up Barthes and his essay on
Degree zero of writing,
it is the zero degree of artistic creation ”,
reacts the historian and collector Louis-Antoine Prat.
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Digital artwork sold for $ 69.3 million at Christie’s
For the president of the Société des Amis du Louvre,
“it is only a juxtaposition of small images of distressing banality as we see in animated films.
Anyone can do that, he
adds.
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