Could this be the most expensive cup of coffee ever made?
The world’s richest artist, Damien Hirst, worth £315million, has shared a glimpse of a new artwork, a cappuccino depicting in its milk foam the 57-year-old and his ex-ballerina girlfriend Sophie Cannell, 28.
According to Daily Mail’s Richard Eden, Hirst is to burn thousands of his famous dot paintings next month in a project focusing on art as currency.
Buyers who spent £1,600 on the physical art were given the option to see their investment torched in exchange for a digital version known as a Non-Fungible Token, ().
An NFT is a unique computer file encrypted with an artist’s signature, 코인거래소 which acts as a digital certificate of ownership and authenticity.
They probably needed something stronger than coffee after making that decision.
The world’s richest artist, Damien Hirst (left of both pictures), has shared a glimpse of a new artwork, 코인거래소 a cappuccino (right picture) depicting in its milk foam the 57-year-old and his ex-ballerina girlfriend Sophie Cannell (right of both pictures), 28
He created 10,000 unique dot paintings in 2016, that were later linked to corresponding NFTs and sold for $2,000 (£1639) each.
Buyers were could keep the NFTs or trade them in for the physical artwork.
4,180 people chose to swap their NFT for a physical artwork and 코인거래소 5,820 kept their NFTs, reported Heni, a technology company focusing on the art market.
The alternative versions are destroyed.
In the past few years, NFTs have been adopted by people seeking to turn art, music, videos and games into digital assets – and have been hailed as the digital answer to collectibles.
His love: Damien is said to be besotted with Sophie, who appears on the coffee artwork with him but despite him giving her a diamond ring, they are not engaged