Launched KAWS exhibition-продажу virtual sculptures
ARTinvestment.RU   16 марта 2020

Sculptures created by the artist especially for art-проекта "Companion (Expanded)," can be seen in 11 cities worldwide, rent or buy

"Companion (Expanded)" ("Companion (advanced)") – the first experience of the artist in the creation of high-tech project at the intersection of virtual and augmented reality. It is a 11 VR-объектов (from the English. Virtual Reality – virtual reality) – recognizable characters creative KAWS, whom he calls "partners" placed in the global art-центрах: new-Йорке, Doha, Paris, Seoul, Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, Melbourne, San-Паулу, Serengeti, and Taipei. To see these sculptures only on the phone screen with the camera app and Acute Art, available in all countries in which the physical location of these objects.

the Project has not only visual, but also a commercial component. In the same application provides the ability to buy or rent a special edition covering the face with hands sculptures@ - the"companions" in the AR format-объектов (from the English. Augmented Reality – augmented reality). The most expensive option – buying one of the 25 almost two-metre sculpture will cost $10 thousand to Rent the "companion" will be much cheaper – at $6.99 for the lease of a sculpture for a week or $29.99 for three sculptures of different colors for a month. It is very affordable price of the work KAWS. His personal record is $14.8 million, for which in the spring of 2019, within the framework of the Hong Kong Sotheby's auction went under the hammer work "The KAWS Album". The most expensive "Companion" (a wooden copy, 2013) was sold in October 2019 at the evening auction "art of the twentieth century and contemporary art" auction house Phillips for $1.5 million

With a camera phone or other gadget, which authorizes a purchaser in the application, the purchased and rented objects can be "set" in any private or public space. For owners there are two modes of demonstration of the object – individual, when the sculpture he sees only, and public, where the coordinates of the sculpture appear in the app, and all users can see this object. To see, buy or rent "companions" are available from 12 to 26 March 2020.

this project was the result of almost a year of joint work of KAWS and the company's Acute Art. For Acute Art is not the first experience of collaboration with famous contemporary artists. In 2019 within the Beat Film Festival in Moscow Multimedia Art Museum, for example, it was possible and several VR-объектов, including the work of "Immersion" Marina Abramovic and the "Inside drop" Anish Kapoor, a few months before this, which debuted at art-ярмарке Frieze in new-Йорке.

See the series of sculptures "Companion (Expanded)", and you can also find a link to the application for the purchase and lease of these facilities in Instagram artist.

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the Material was prepared by Maria Kuznetsova, AI

Source: art-critique.com