ROBNESS is a multifaceted self-taught artist living in Los Angeles, in California. He is one of the first to experiment and participate in the emergence of art in the blockchain world. Participating in the oft-ignored but essential global Rarepepe trading network, he began to perceive early iterations and proof-of-concepts that disrupted the mainstream art world through the use of Ethereum smart contracts and NFT culture ( Non-Fungible Token).
Also a controversial figure, he is one of two well-known artists removed from the Superrare.com gallery for creating the '64 GALLON TOTER' which challenged notions of copyright and its relevance in the context of blockchain culture in general.
ROBNESS is known in the crypto art world for its ever-changing styles and ability to regularly take aesthetic risks. He curated the Trash art exhibition at Avant Galerie Vossen in 2022.
A conversation between the digital and the physical and 2023 Crypto Art Award Shortlist, The Lumen Prize.
“The poem-object is a composition that aims to combine resources from poetry and the visual arts, and to contemplate their capacity for mutual exaltation.”
— André Breton
Poème Objkt is a conversation between poetry and the visual arts brought to life through the liminal play of the physical and the digital. As contemporary expressions of Breton’s poem-object, the pieces in this exhibition present works of poetry, experimental writing and literature on the blockchain that enhance, reinvent and reimagine the relationship between the text and the image, the analog and the digital, ultimately opening up a space for dialogue that blurs and challenges the lines that divide.
This co-curation with L'Avant Galerie Vossen and theVERSEverse in Paris materializes in two parts:
Part 1 opened in October 2022. L’Avant Galerie Vossen and theVERSEverse curated the works of Sasha Stiles, Ross Goodwin, Ana María Caballero, aurèce vettier, Campbell McGrath, Robness, Kalen Iwamoto, Julien Silvano, Jason Sholl, and Saul Steinberg.
This first exhibition’s curatorial framework falls along the following lines:
GENERATIVE LITERATURE
POEM = WORK OF ART
CONCRETE POETRY
CONCEPTUAL
Part 2 takes place May 2023 at Librairie Métamorphoses in Paris, with a section of the exhibition taking place at L’Avant Galerie Vossen.
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Image:
Exhibition view © Photo: Jean-Louis Losi
