Hiroko
Fujioka and WISe.ART
Join Forces to
Host “Le Japon à deux Pas” a Physical NFT
Exhibition
Traditional arts & crafts from Japan
stepping into the NFT world to raise funds for the Children of
Ukraine; it is all about IMPACT DIVIDENDS, despite Crypto
Winters
The exhibition will take place at
the Espace Fert, 7 rue Barton in
Geneva, Switzerland from November 24-26
Geneva - November 17, 2022: Hiroko
Fujioka and WISe.ART, a vetted
NFT Marketplace powered by WISeKey International
Holding Ltd. (“WISeKey”) (SIX: WIHN, NASDAQ: WKEY), a
leading global cybersecurity, AI, Blockchain, and IoT company,
announced today that they will join forces to host “Le Japon à deux
Pas”, a physical NFT exhibition, which takes place at the Espace
Fert, 7 rue Barton in Geneva, Switzerland.
From November 24 to 26 at 11 am Hiroko
Fujioka, Master of the Kinkara Kawa Technique, will
present her art in an exhibition of modern travel accessories
revisited in the ancient Japanese lacquer tradition. To fix a gold
leaf on leather, Hiroko Fujioka uses Urushi, Japanese lacquer.
Hence her technique is named “Kinkara Kawa Urushi” She uses other
techniques such as Shibori, and Twin dye.
Workshops and conferences will be held at the
Espace Fert, 7 Barton Street in Geneva,
Switzerland.
On Saturday 26 November, the
last day of the exhibition, an NFT auction with “phygital” packages
will be held from 3 pm with the support of
WISe.ART. The auctioneer will be TSR TV
presenter Rayane M’Zouri. Part of the proceeds will be
donated to the Red Cross International Committee
in aid of their efforts in Ukraine.
Kinkara Kawa Technique or CUOI D' ORO is
one of the art techniques to make leather craft, which is to tan,
plate it with leaves of special metal, then make embossed pattern
using metal molds, and finally dying it. It is an art of great
rarity which was made only for a duration of 300 years from the
Italian Renaissance period until just before the Napoleon
Revolution.
The technique was imported to Japan in mid-17th
century and continue to flourish there from Meiji (1868~1912)
through Taisho (1912~1926) period. CUOI D'ORO decorated many walls
of European palaces which were torn off and sold when they rebuilt
and renovated the buildings. Most of them were bought by Japanese
people, cut up in small pieces, then made into bags and other small
items, and sold as "KINKARAKAWA" (means European gold leather).
"KINKARAKAWA" became very popular in Japan. They
also found the origin of CUOI D'ORO after 50 years of researching
and analyzing and succeeded in reproducing CUOI D'ORO of the same
quality or better.
WISe.ART is much more than a
secured vetted NFT marketplace. It cares about society and the
planet and supports many environmentally friendly projects,
projects which place humans at the heart of the action with a view
to raise awareness and funds.
We aim to embrace and accompany the artists who
onboard their work or collectibles on the platform. Quality and
security are key in our business model. Collectors should feel as
comfortable with their investments and knowing that most of the
time they are helping the world while enjoying the thrill of
collecting.
On this occasion, we will be selling a unique
exclusive collection of NFTs giving collectors the opportunity to
belong to this smart caring community.
For the first time, the
WISe.ART team will welcome its Swiss visitors in a
physical gallery, Espace Fert, 7 rue Barton in Geneva.
About WISe.ARTWISe.ART is a
fully-fledged marketplace. It can connect all actors of the arts
industry. Our white-labelling 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 WISeKey: WISeKey (NASDAQ:
WKEY; SIX Swiss Exchange: WIHN) is a leading global cybersecurity
company currently deploying large scale digital identity ecosystems
for people and objects using Blockchain, AI and IoT respecting the
Human as the Fulcrum of the Internet. WISeKey microprocessors
secure the pervasive computing shaping today’s Internet of
Everything. WISeKey IoT has an install base of over 1.5 billion
microchips in virtually all IoT sectors (connected cars, smart
cities, drones, agricultural sensors, anti-counterfeiting, smart
lighting, servers, computers, mobile phones, crypto tokens
etc.). WISeKey is uniquely positioned to be at the edge of
IoT as our semiconductors produce a huge amount of Big Data that,
when analyzed with Artificial Intelligence (AI), can help
industrial applications to predict the failure of their equipment
before it happens. Our technology is Trusted by the OISTE/WISeKey’s
Swiss based cryptographic Root of Trust (“RoT”) provides secure
authentication and identification, in both physical and virtual
environments, for the Internet of Things, Blockchain and Artificial
Intelligence. The WISeKey RoT serves as a common trust anchor to
ensure the integrity of online transactions among objects and
between objects and people. For more information,
visit www.wisekey.com.
INFORMATION:
KS LemanCompany Contact: Kathy
ShiraishiEmail : famshiraishi@gmail.comTel: +41799569148 |
WISe.ART Contact: Carlos
Morenocmoreno@wisekey.comTel: +41 22 594 3000 |
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