WISe.ART to NFT a Major Picasso Art Case
for Two Violins Including the Original Art Piece
NFT and Art Design by Pedro
Sandoval
(see video here)
Geneva, Madrid and New York
- July 25, 2022
- WISeKey International Holding Ltd. (“WISeKey”) (SIX:
WIHN, NASDAQ: WKEY), a leading global cybersecurity, AI, Blockchain
and IoT company, today announced that its WISe.ART 2.1 NFT
Marketplace will create an NFT for a major cubist art piece by
Picasso Art “The Magic Violin” as a phygital package including the
original artwork and a hologram version of the NFT which will be
broadcasted in two different museums simultaneously using the
latest hologram technology.
Picasso who was greatly influenced by Japanese
art in the early 20th Century was passionate about cutting out
shapes of cardboard and any other material like metal, wood and
paper, which then he could shape and split into geometrical forms,
flattening 3Ds into two dimensional renderings.
Artists around Picasso cut, glued, and assembled
everyday life materials which they found in their studios like
newspapers, wallpaper scraps, music scores. The shapes of the
cut-outs were simple geometrical shapes. Their use was critical to
the evolution of Cubism. It allowed color to be reintroduced in
order to suggest a certain depth by superimposing different planes.
It answered a profound need to explode the accepted canons of art
to appropriate the concrete realities of an industrialized world.
The use of pasted paper can be divided into three distinct periods.
The first, to which the “Magic Violin” belongs, employs a
framework, either painted or drawn, which sets up a dialogue with
the pasted pieces of newspaper, colored paper or, as in this case,
music scores. The second period, between February 1913 and the
early spring of that year, saw the use of the real object as a form
of expression, clearing the way for what was to be called synthetic
Cubism. In the third period, between March 1914 and the beginning
of summer Picasso experimented with the effect of materials.
In his video, Pedro Sandoval romanticises a true
story where two violins were stolen from Le Douanier Rousseau
(another French artist known for his “naïve” renderings of nature)
in Paris. The case holding the two violins was left empty. Picasso
who greatly admired the saddened artist replaced the violins with a
cut out shape of a violin and placed it in the empty case for his
friend. The case with the cardboard violin is now the property of a
Spanish collector, Marco Salazar Ruiz’ grandson.
The art piece was recently exhibited as
follows:
- In 2020 at the Museum of the Royal
Conservatory of Music in Madrid, founded by Queen María Cristina in
1830
- In 2021 at the San Clemente
Cultural Center in Toledo, in the times of Alfonso VII in 1085
- In 2022 in the City of San Clemente
in Cuenca by the Antonio Pérez Foundation
Forensic analysis and contextual historical
study operated by Veritart's laboratory.
“The Metaverse marks a very important guideline
in the visual arts, just as the modernists did in their time, even
more so, a work from 1912-14 that has presented the opportunity to
enter the art of the future under the creativity of Pedro Sandoval
recognized Venezuelan artist and the security guaranteed by the
electronic commerce platform for NFTs WISe.Art, that emulate the
old collectors and patrons of the early twentieth century,” said
Marcos Salazar Ruiz, owner and recognized Venezuelan plastic
artist.
WISeKey’s WISe.ART 2.1 NFT Marketplace platform
is fully operational and provides art collectors and artists a
secure marketplace where NFT buyers and sellers can easily connect
their crypto wallets to instantly purchase or list their NFTs for
sale.
To further increase its ecosystem of artists
using the WISe.ART NFT platform, WISeKey joined forces with the
Crypto Art Island event, the first European NFT art fair which took
place in Gibraltar, from April 29 to May 4, 2022.
The new design of the WISe.Art 2.1 platform
ensures that besides an authenticated and signed version of the
actual digital asset, an irreversible link to a physical object can
be set up, in addition to proof of ownership, provenance and a set
of contracts describing future use and monetization streams, if
relevant.
The NFT tokenization uses the WISeKey registered
patent application, “System and Method for Providing Persistent
Authenticatable NFT” in the USA. With this method, NFTs have
increased in value and will hold their long-term value.
NFTs and the platform are secured by WISeKey’s
own security technology enabling the protection of physical objects
as well as digital assets in a safe end-to-end process. Smart
contracts and physical contracts can be included in the NFTs to
describe the usage rights of the NFT buyer, including monetization
of their collection. It also allows the original creator to
potentially participate in future royalties. This option creates
new funding opportunities for artists with large collections, as
well as sophisticated ways for a better appreciation of their
work.
WISeID is a trusted identity service that
enables access to the web and mobile applications with strong
authentication techniques. WISeID supports online KYC onboarding,
OTP and digital certificate login, and an innovative “hands-free”
secure login based on QR-Codes which users can read using WISeID
suite of mobile applications without even having to type any
passwords.
Additional security services include digital
signature services for documents. WISeID implements standards such
as OpenID Connect and OAUTH2, that can be easily integrated by
customers to enhance the security of their cloud applications.
WISeID can also be combined with Microsoft Active Directory,
facilitating integration with corporate applications.
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About Pedro Sandoval: Pedro
José Sandoval is a Venezuelan artist known for his abstract
neo-expressionist artwork. Much of his work deals with color,
movement, and texture. His work is in the permanent collection of
the Boca Raton Museum of Art. He lives and works between Madrid,
Berlin, and New York City.
About WISe.ART: WISe.ART is a
fully-fledged marketplace. It can connect all actors of the arts
industry. Our white-labeling options and special NFT designs ensure
that besides an authenticated and signed version of the actual
digital asset, creating an irreversible link to the physical
object, providing proof of ownership, provenance, and a set of
smart contracts describing future use and monetization streams.
The WISe.ART NFT platform is fully secured by
WISeKey’s innovative security technologies enabling the
authentication of digital assets, in a safe end-to-end process
based on our experience and proven expertise in this domain.
About WISeKeyWISeKey (NASDAQ:
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company currently deploying large scale digital identity ecosystems
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Human as the Fulcrum of the Internet. WISeKey microprocessors
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