{"id":403,"date":"2021-08-11T17:14:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T17:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/\/?p=403"},"modified":"2022-04-05T21:08:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T21:08:45","slug":"nft-portals-exhibition-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/nft-portals-exhibition-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Show \u2014 &#8216;Portals: Art on the Threshold&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NFTs on 1stDibs | Into The Metaverse\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H6XuLDxexNU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1stDibs curator and artist Metageist, along with artists Process Smith and Ogi in London, England, take us through the process of creating non-fungible tokens through VR and discuss the future of digital art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the NFT market continues to burgeon, our inaugural exhibition is a vigorous effort to enter what guest curator Lee Mason describes as \u201cthe portal into the future.\u201d \u201cPortals: Art on the Threshold\u201d presents a host of artists and designers from across the metaverse, ready to share their story-driven work with a broader audience. Together, these creators exemplify the diversity of skills, mediums and content this community offers and demonstrate the breadth of quality work available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition explores the concept of the portal as a door into another realm, whether real or imagined. The creators included what Mason characterizes as \u201cthe interplay between real and digital art, wherein their work is real conceptually but not real, as in not matter.\u201d NFTs and blockchain technology are beginning to transform the contemporary art world, particularly for artists and collectors. The future of art hinges on their stepping into a dawning digital space with new technology, communities and systems and firmly accepting this new reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPortals\u201d includes the artwork of Metageist (also known as Lee Mason) along with the following creators: Lucas Aguirre, A. L. Crego, Isa Kost, Marc-O-Matic, mvhvma, Ogi, Process Smith, blackboxdotart and Rosie Summers. Each piece or series examines the hypnotic experience of crossing over into another reality and depicts distinct occurrences \u2013 often confined by time and space \u2013 to help convey the phenomenon of transportation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">A.L. Crego<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Doubt_ALCrego_2021_1_MQ-1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-507\"\/><figcaption><meta charset=\"utf-8\">Doubt, 2021, by A. L. Crego<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Spanish artist A.L. Crego produces GIFs, continuously looped, that animate black and white lines and dots to evoke conceptual presence. The NFT series included in \u201cPortals\u201d opens with Doubt, in which the artist illustrates through spatial contrast the organic and inevitable formation of a portal. As the artist describes it: \u201cTwo opposite ideas meet. Two different prisms filter the same light. Two different beings orbit the same concept.\u201d The portal then opens, in Dialogue and Question, into a void of vibrating white lines, where two circular rings spiral and meet in the middle. Resolution of the dialectical struggle, illustrated in Inference, creates a new form of entry. Crego\u2019s earlier GIFs, inspired by Surrealism and chiaroscuro modeling, gained popularity on social media and continue to influence his work today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Marc-O-Matic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/RealityDiagnostics_Marc-O-Matic_2021_1_POSTER.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/RealityDiagnostics_Marc-O-Matic_2021_1_POSTER.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/RealityDiagnostics_Marc-O-Matic_2021_1_POSTER-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/RealityDiagnostics_Marc-O-Matic_2021_1_POSTER-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/RealityDiagnostics_Marc-O-Matic_2021_1_POSTER-768x768.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption><meta charset=\"utf-8\">Reality Diagnostics, 2021, by Marc-O-Matic<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Marc-O-Matic, who describes himself as a \u201cmixed-reality artist and storyteller,\u201d presents three sequential NFTs that illustrate the definitive purpose of the eye and, by extension, perception. Applying VR technology to ink illustrations, the artist represents the making of an eyeball as a machine operation. In Reality Diagnostics, engineers inspect and examine a pair of eyes. Once inserted into a skull, as The Beholder Complex shows, they blast out beams of light, dimming once they are removed. The piece is a firm declaration from the artist that \u201ceyes are not the window to the soul\u201d but instead a means to diagnose reality that reveals the subject of the anti-portal. Finally, in The Beholder Component, the eye acts not as a portal but as a cog in the machine of consciousness and a tool only for cognitive illumination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">blackboxdotart<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/RGBPortal_Red_POSTER.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/RGBPortal_Red_POSTER.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/RGBPortal_Red_POSTER-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/RGBPortal_Red_POSTER-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/RGBPortal_Red_POSTER-768x768.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption><meta charset=\"utf-8\">RGBPortal|Red, 2021, by blackboxdotart<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Blackboxdotart, a veteran cryptoartist with a background in fine arts, unlocks the internal world of emotions in her latest NFT series. Influenced by the painting medium, the artist uses stark, primary colors, starting with Red, to capture specific emotional moments. Green, for example, depicts a figure in a blurry green landscape that could, to the imagination, represent a flashlight in the forest or a lighthouse by the sea. Because of the haziness of recall, the images can only elicit an emotional response before reason or taxonomy. Key sections of the images are subtly animated \u2013 a progressing foreground or a constant flickering light \u2013 while the rest remains still. By contrasting bright colors and strategic animation, the artist exposes the portal of emotional memory and its profound ability to fill in an incomplete picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Ogi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video autoplay controls loop muted src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/TECHNE_thumb.mp4\" playsinline><\/video><figcaption><meta charset=\"utf-8\">still from TECHNE, 2021, by Ogi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWorld creator\u201d Ogi focuses on crafting meta-narratives in his work and forging new pathways for imagination and communication in the metaverse. In short film animations, a vast 3D bust composed of flickering alloy molecules spins slowly in showcase fashion. Chorismos, the first video in the set, has a sleek futuristic feel, depicting machines whose interior resembles the dark walls of a techno club as robots move rhythmically to the film\u2019s score. The bust, or godhead, floating above undisclosed rocky terrain, deposits techne capillaries into a cyber cauldron at the base of the vertical. In what the artist terms an \u201cAI fever dream,\u201d the vibrating energy of music and dance activates a mechanized transfer of seeds (ideas) into a pod (the mind) to birth an algorhythm (technology) and open the portal of innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Rosie Summers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/i_poster.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/i_poster.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/i_poster-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/i_poster-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/i_poster-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/i_poster-933x933.jpeg 933w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption><meta charset=\"utf-8\">i|I, 2021, by Rosie Summers<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Virtual reality artist Rosie Summers creates hybrid 3D worlds for the human body to experience sensorially. Employing augmented technologies, such as a headset and handheld sensors, Summers uses space as a canvas and \u201cpaints\u201d digital landscapes by gesturing shapes and forms with her physical arms, legs, and torso. i|I, her work featured in the exhibition depicts a woman and a faint female figure facing \u2013 although not seeing \u2013 each other. Between them, an orb of light splits the space between them, each figure reaching toward her side of this portal. Their faces are filled with expressions of wonder and intrigue. The encounter between the two female figures conveys that the physical self and the virtual self can access each other only through the vacuum of the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">mvhvma<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/trance.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/trance.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/trance-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/trance-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/trance-768x768.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption><meta charset=\"utf-8\">Trance, 2021, by mvhvma<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Through close encounters between loved ones, mvhvma, also known as Mahima Chaudhury, portrays romantic love as a vehicle for traveling to other worlds. Muted pastel colors are rendered with light opacity in the image, and buoyant curves line the sky and the atmosphere. Sketch-like scenes also give a soft, ethereal backdrop to otherwise colorless figures enacting the part of lovers. Touching, kissing and dancing transport the subjects into another reality. mvhvma, in her latest collection of NFTs, continues illustrating love\u2019s transformative ability to facilitate a sweet escape through the portal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Lucas Aguirre<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ubicua-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ubicua-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ubicua-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ubicua-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ubicua.jpeg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><meta charset=\"utf-8\">Obicua, 2021, by Lucas Aguirre<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Argentinian digital artist Lucas Aguirre has adopted the painstaking practice of combining clipped 3D scans with VR sculpture and painting to produce his piece in the show. In Ubicua, fragments of patterned floors and bed sheets, along with abstract metallized waves, float across the foreground and crash together like a gray-scale mosaic or nebulous dream. A repeated snippet of a sleeping figure weaves back and forth through the animation. As it concludes, the fragments vanish, and the figure situated at each corner dominates the picture plane. Aguirre invites viewers to peek inside the otherworldly realm of dreams while conscious, if only for 30 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Metageist<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"724\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FlickeringVeilPoster-1024x724.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FlickeringVeilPoster-1024x724.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FlickeringVeilPoster-300x212.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FlickeringVeilPoster-768x543.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FlickeringVeilPoster.jpeg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><meta charset=\"utf-8\">The Flickering Veil, 2021, by Metageist<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Metageist, a UK-based cryptoartist, collector and curator, explores the mesmerizing appeal of the metaverse in his work. \u201cIs the metaverse hypnotizing us and pulling us in against our better judgement?\u201d he asks. \u201cWhat do we leave behind when we climb up into the trap? Is there any way out once you fall down the rabbit hole?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The artist\u2019s latest NFT collection, \u201cVortex and Veil,\u201d comprises digital installations \u2014 hand-sculpted inside VR \u2014 of animated portals bordered by seductively decorated entrances with neon tendrils curling and gripping their side like creeping vines or carnivorous plants. In the Sarracenia Vortex, dizzying animations flash red and yellow, while synchronized white spirals spin and radiate out toward the portal\u2019s edge. As the spinning patterns become more intricate, they suddenly disappear into the ether, and the graphic fades to black. The viewer has been pulled into a mysterious space with no escape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Metageist, The Flickering Veil represents entering the metaverse as a one-way portal to disappear into completely. \u201cWalk through the Veil,\u201d he has written, \u201cand it will burn all your tokens, reset your avatar to default and delete your entire digital identity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Isa Kost<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/NerveTreeInSpring-1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-515\"\/><figcaption><meta charset=\"utf-8\">Nerve Tree in Spring, 2021, by Isa Kost<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Isa Kost is an artist, illustrator and graphic designer who lives and works in Milan. Kost creates illustrations that center the natural world and explore the interchangeably close relationships between animals, plants and the human body. Recent work by the artist relates the four seasons (spring, summer, fall and winter) to other transitional events in nature. In each of the illustrations featured in the show, the familiar lines of the nervous system run through a human head, resembling the branches of a tree. Birds perched on the branches even light up like brain synapses. A simple truth is conveyed: that all of nature must enter new seasons and experience other temporal realities. Kost\u2019s NFTs offer a refreshing reminder of natural beauty while in the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Process Smith<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/OnTheThreshold_ProcessSmith_2021_1-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/OnTheThreshold_ProcessSmith_2021_1-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/OnTheThreshold_ProcessSmith_2021_1-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/OnTheThreshold_ProcessSmith_2021_1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/OnTheThreshold_ProcessSmith_2021_1-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/OnTheThreshold_ProcessSmith_2021_1-933x933.jpeg 933w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/OnTheThreshold_ProcessSmith_2021_1.jpeg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><meta charset=\"utf-8\">On the Threshold, 2021, by Process Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Influenced by graffiti and skateboarding, Process Smith designs anthropomorphic totems that embody qualities of a selected theme or vision. The artist uses bold color, dynamic lines and carefully selected expressions to convey the spirit behind impassioned statements. The titles On the Threshold and Welcome to the Future signal the emerging belief that the future of art lies in the NFT space. Fundamentally, the process of minting sets this practice in a domain beyond the physical world and its conventions. Smith further blurs physical reality by incorporating his artist signature into the totems and inserting himself into work that identifies with the coming era of NFTs.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"interstitial-banner interstitial-banner--collection\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"interstitial-collection-banner\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/info\/nft-portals-exhibition-highlights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"933\" height=\"933\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/i_poster-933x933.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full-width size-full-width\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/i_poster-933x933.jpeg 933w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/i_poster-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/i_poster-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/i_poster-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/i_poster.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 933px) 100vw, 933px\" \/>            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"interstitial-collection-text\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/info\/nft-portals-exhibition-highlights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n                <div class=\"interstitial-heading serif-title\">Explore More Portals<\/div>\n                                <a class=\"feature-banner-button button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/info\/nft-portals-exhibition-highlights\/\">\n                    <span>View All<\/span>\n                <\/a>\n\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<!--\n\n<div class=\"interstitial-banner interstitial-banner-collection interstitial-container\">\n  <div class=\"interstitial-content\">\n    <div class=\"interstitial-background-image\">\n      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/the-mint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/i_poster-1000x300.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-interstitial size-interstitial\" alt=\"\" \/>    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"container interstitial-text\">\n      <a class=\"interstitial-link-around-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/info\/nft-portals-exhibition-highlights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n        <div class=\"interstitial-heading\">Explore More Portals<\/div>\n        <div class=\"interstitial-subheading\"><\/div>\n      <\/a>\n      <a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/info\/nft-portals-exhibition-highlights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n        <span>View All<\/span>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div> -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1stDibs curator and artist Metageist, along with artists Process Smith and Ogi in London, England, take us through the process of creating non-fungible tokens through VR and discuss the future of digital art. 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