2021/05/01

Tina Rivers Ryan on “the True Perversity of Using NFTs to Sell Digital Art”

● 01/05/2021
“By asking his collectors to immolate their receipts, Klein took his immaterial works out of circulation, leaving the buyer with nothing but a sensibility; the NFT is the receipt’s revenge, leaving its collector with nothing but an asset.”
– Tina Rivers Ryan, media art historian and curator at Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Art Gallery, invoking Yves Klein’s Zones de sensibilité picturale immaterielle (1959–62) to elicidate “the true perversity of using NFTs to sell digital art”
Artforum
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