Installation view Metaverse Landscapes; 2023.
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Metaverse Landscape 33: Somnium Space Extra Large #2644 (XL); 2023; Oil on canvas, UV print, Ethereum paper wallet, dynamic ERC-721 NFT: 100×100×4,5cm, Oil on canvas, UV print, Ethereum paper wallet, dynamic ERC-721 NFT: 100×50×4,5cm.
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Installation view Metaverse Landscapes; 2023.
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Installation view Metaverse Landscapes; 2023.
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Metaverse Landscape Lithograph 9: Decentraland Parcel 26,-89; 2023; Lithographic offset print, UV print, Ethereum wallet, dynamic ERC-721 NFT: 420x594mm.
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Installation view Metaverse Landscapes; 2023.
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Installation view Metaverse Landscapes; 2023.
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Installation view Metaverse Landscapes; 2023.
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Installation view Metaverse Landscapes; 2023.
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Installation view Metaverse Landscapes; 2023.
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Installation view Metaverse Landscapes; 2023.
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Installation view Metaverse Landscapes; 2023.
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Installation view Metaverse Landscapes; 2023.
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Installation view Metaverse Landscapes; 2023.
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Installation view Metaverse Landscapes; 2023.
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Installation view Metaverse Landscapes; 2023.
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Metaverse Landscape 12: Voxels 11 The Embarcadero; 2023; Oil on canvas, UV print, Ethereum paper wallet, dynamic ERC-721 NFT: 100×100×4,5cm.
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Installation view Metaverse Landscapes; 2023.
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F.W. (Franz Wilhelm) Junghuhn, The northern coast at Semarang, 1853, depicting Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia
Installation view Metaverse Landscapes; 2023.
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Map of Cliffort Kokshoven plantation, 1832, depicting Commewijne, Suriname
A. de Gray / C. L. van Kesteren, The landscape of the Prianger with the Gedeh Mountains, Etching after an original drawing, 15 x 21,5cm, depicting Barat, Java, Indonesia
Installation view Metaverse Landscapes; 2023.
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‘Metaverse Landscapes’ connects discourses around metaverse property, NFT ownership and digital scarcity with histories of modernist abstraction and colonial painting as property claim tools. An important part of the exhibition will be created in the spring of 2023 in the workshops of the Frans Masereel Centrum, supplemented with some recent works by the artist, as well as loans from private and museum collections.
Central to Simon Denny’s artistic practice, which includes sculptures, installations, videos and print, as well as games and exhibitions, is a focus on the social and political implications of the technology industry, as well as the rise of social media, start-up culture, blockchains and cryptocurrencies. Ranging from recent technological innovations to data extraction and distribution, he examines how technology shapes governmental organisations, culture and the economy.
Denny finds inspiration in materials, advertisements and packaging produced by technology and media companies. This translates into graphical interfaces borrowed from commercial applications, linking the utopian goals of the new media economy with those of historical modernism.
