from November 18 to December 18, 2021
Crypto Farmers is a Crypto Art project created to accompany visual artists in their journey to metavers, creating exclusive works in NFT (Non Fungible Token) format, managing their incorporation to the platforms, promoting and marketing them.
Currently, Crypto Farmers works with the Opensea platform, the largest digital art marketplace, and its operations center is in Barcelona.
Why NFT's?
We are excited about a new type of digital asset called a non fungible token or NFT. NFTs have new and interesting properties: they are unique, demonstrably scarce, tradable and usable in multiple applications. Just as with physical goods, you can do whatever you want: gift them to a friend, sell them on an open market, or throw them away. But unlike physical goods, they are equipped with encryption that protects digital goods.
Why a hybrid event?
Bringing the NFT world closer to artists and the traditional public is one of the objectives of Crypto Farmers made possible by events like these. Buyers will receive a giclée print of the NFT purchased. In addition, those who require it, will be supported by the project managers to create their digital wallet and be able to enter this world. Crypto Farmers has an ambitious roadmap that aims to incorporate new artists, the dissemination to RRSS and the celebration of events in other cities around the world. In addition to exploring collaboration with commercial brands.
The artists
In this first exhibition, Crypto Farmers presents the collaboration with 3 renowned visual artists who make the leap into the NFT world.
Héctor Francesch is a multidisciplinary artist and designer. Although he started as a painter, he currently works with painting, design, illustration and installations. His work has been exhibited in different galleries and institutions in cities such as La Coruña, Vigo, Madrid, Barcelona; and internationally in Lisbon, New York or Adelaide in Australia. His work has been exhibited at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Piramidón and the Hartmann Gallery in Barcelona, and the Palexco Gallery in La Coruña. He has been artist-in-residence at the Museum of Contemporary Art MAC Naturgy in La Coruña and selected for the Encuentro de Artistas Novos in Argentina - Cidade da Cultura. At the same time he teaches workshops as a professor of silkscreen printing at the Master on the Graphic Work of the Ciec Foundation and the Museum of Fine Arts of La Coruña.
José Ramón Bas is a self-taught artist and photographer. In 1985 he began his studies at the Escuela de la Imagen y el Diseño (IDEP) in Barcelona, where he was quickly attracted by contemporary forms of expression and the theme of travel memories. In 1997 he won the Fotopress award from the La Caixa Foundation for young artists. He began working with the Berini Gallery in Barcelona and in 1998 moved to a studio at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Piramidón. After joining Galerie VU' in 2001, he won the Federico Premi Vender in Italy in 2003, followed by the Arena Foundation Award in 2004. In 2005 he started teaching at EFTI's Master in Creative Photography in Madrid. He has exhibited in Holland, Boston, Lisbon, New York, Africa and elsewhere.
Albert Vergés is an artist who uses in his work programming, painting, video or sound as media to reflect a critical view of certain aspects of current affairs. Vergés uses binary code to bathe the surfaces of his pictorial work with coded messages of ones and zeros. Instead of formally representing the subjects he works with, he encodes them. The artist's first exhibition was at the Miró Foundation in Barcelona in 1997, in the group show Anatomies of the Soul. From there, he had his first solo exhibition at the now defunct Galería Ynguazo in Madrid and then began a fruitful relationship with Ámbito Galería de Arte, in Barcelona. During this period, she was a resident artist
