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Lady Gaga in blood in the bath of Marat against the background of Sade: Bob Wilson hits hard for his arrival in the NFT

2021-06-21T21:15:48.274Z


Director and artist Bob Wilson had made several video portraits of the singer, exhibited at the Louvre in 2013. He modified one of them to sell it as a non-fungible token.


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

”.

Source: lefigaro

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