Charlotte Taylor and Nicholas Préaud create NFT of OMA-designed underwater sculpture for Miami Beach
Visualisation artists Charlotte Taylor and Nicholas Préaud have created an NFT artwork based on an OMA-designed sculpture that will form part of an underwater park near Miami Beach.
Taylor and Préaud's video artwork is focused on a sculpture named Coral Areanthat was designed by Shohei Shigematsu, who heads architecture studio OMA's New York office.
The piece was sold as an NFT to help promote the ReefLine sculpture park, which is set to be built off the coast of Miami Beach and was also designed by OMA. A physical version of the sculpture will form part of the underwater park.
It was unveiled during Miami art week, which features events including Art Basel Miami Beach and Design Miami fairs.
The video shows the sculpture being displayed in a museum, before being immersed in the sea and covered in coral. Charlotte Taylor and Nicholas Préaud have created three artworks based on an OMA-designed sculpture
"The NFT is meant to depict the unique nature of the ReefLine sculpture," OMA told Dezeen. "It would at first appear to be more appropriate or fitting in a museum, so the video begins with the sculpture displayed as a static piece of artwork in a scaleless, white box setting."
"As the film transitions to the underwater deployment of the sculpture, we hope that people understand that this is the true purpose of the sculpture, whose physical twin will be placed underwater off the coast of Miami Beach," explained OMA.
"The sculpture i...
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