Lady Gaga lying murdered in her bath, bare breasts and bloody neck for more than two minutes: this is the NFT which will go on sale on June 24 in New York, on the occasion of the "
art sales day. contemporary and twentieth century
”initiated by the auction house Phillips.
A work by American artist and director Robert Wilson, better known by his nickname Bob Wilson.
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Entitled
Gaga / Marat
, this video takes up Wilson's work made in 2013. At the time, he made a series of vertical videos entitled “
Gaga portraits
”, shown at the Louvre for several months on the occasion of the he
Living-Rooms
exhibition
: Le Louvre invites Robert Wilson
. We could thus see the American singer in
Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière
, after a painting by Ingres from 1806, but also see her head on a tray in the manner of Saint John the Baptist in a painting by Andrea Solari from 1507, or still observe her tied up and hung upside down in a reconstruction of the artist's room.
Finally, a last video presented the star lying in a bath, like the painting by Jacques-Louis David painted in 1793,
La Mort de Marat
. In the background, we hear the singer recite several times in a row a poem based on the writings of the Marquis de Sade: “
The next day, another turning point came and it continued, always the same, coitus, Christ, curse, ejaculation, always the same.
”As the video goes by, the light becomes more and more scarce, until the singer of
A Star is Born
completely disappears in the dark.
And it is precisely an NFT version of this last video portrait that Bob Wilson has decided to put on sale, a first for him. Very popular in the art world at the moment, this NFT process, acronym for
non fungible items
(non fungible tokens) concerns digital objects based on "
blockchain
" technology, which allows the acquisition of numerous virtual items such as works of art, with very secure access strictly reserved for the buyer. The digital asset acquired is rare, sometimes even unique, which makes it valuable. NFT works can thus reach astronomical sums, such as the Beeple collage sold for 69.3 million euros in early March. The video portrait of Lady Gaga will be auctioned at "
only
»$ 100.
A work to say the least astonishing, for which Bob Wilson explained in the pages of
Le Figaro
that the singer had “
watched again and again
La Mort de Mara
t until this phenomenon prevails.
She even ends up looking like him.
Only a great actress can do that.
It was my idea.
We know each other.
We had the project to do a performance together
", specifying that the interpreter of
Born this way
is"
someone very visual.
As we all know, it is capable of changing nature at an unsettling speed
”.