Gretta Louw

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€ 6 000
Auktionsdatum Classic
30.11.2022 10:30 UTC +01:00
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VAN HAM Kunstauktionen GmbH
Veranstaltungsort
Deutschland, Köln
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ID 849959
Los 307 | Gretta Louw
Louw, Gretta
1981 Dundee, South Africa

Title: "Fluid Frontier".
Created:
2021.
Owner: Gretta Louw.
Token ID: 0.
Token Type: NFT, ERC-721.
Blockchain: Tezos.
Minted: Objkt (Gretta Louw).
Smart Contract: KT1Cqz9N5th62iwq7znMTawmXfXkdYJbnT2V.
Royalties: 10 %.
Format: MP3 (1 minute, 44 seconds).
Size: 3,19 MB.
You can listen to the audio file here:https://objkt.com/asset/KT1Cqz9N5th62iwq7znMTawmXfXkdYJbnT2V/0.

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Physical artwork:
Title: "Fluid Frontier".
Datierung: 2021.
Technique: Embroidery, pigment, watercolour, ink, on linen.
Measurement: 130 x 130cm.
Notation: Verso signed and dated: Gretta Louw '21.

Hybrid NFT (NFT + embroidered painting)
Gretta Louw offers an embroidered painting as part of her series "The Medusa Banners". In addition, the collector will receive an NFT to a sound file created as a sister piece to this painting.

"Fluid Frontier" evolved from the series "The Medusa Banners" (2020-ongoing), which consists of large-scale digitally and analogue embroidered paintings. The series deals with social and digital (further) developments. It moves in the border area of the physical and digital world and the consideration of how to imagine not only digitalisation but also organic and non-human networks in a tangible way. Gretta Louw juxtaposes digital and analogue production methods such as GAN (machine learning) and traditional handicraft and textile techniques, referencing 21st century tensions between sensuality and efficiency, embodiment and automation, constant digital connectedness and corporeal dislocation; the technosphere and the biosphere. The works from "Medusa Banners" take an approach that opposes the ever-increasing technosocial acceleration that permeates most discussions about technology.

Like "Fluid Frontier", many of the works in the series focus on the underwater world, especially jellyfish. Oceans are, in many ways, a neglected symbol and site of digitalisation, from the enormous network of submarine cables that form the backbone of the internet, to the acidification and warming of oceans that is a direct result of the enormous thirst for energy, mining, and global transportation systems that accompany our advancing technologies. Oceans are also the cradle of all organic life on Earth; almost all living species today share an evolutionary history with jellyfish. Through the use of embroidery, the artist also connects the discourse on technology to its feminist past. The first computers were operated with analogue punch cards; so were looms. The programming of the first computers, the plugging of the punch cards, was an activity predominantly carried out by women.

The artist sees the connection of the physical works with texts, lecture-performance readings or, as here, with sound pieces as a way of sensually extending the visual works with poetic prose. In a sense, the combination of the physical visual work with the experimental sound piece forms a kind of "virtual reality experience" related to alternative world-building practices as well as, in art historical terms, to 19th century panoramic paintings, Polke and Rauschenberg's notion of the "combine".

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