LVGA/XY ASTRO FLOWERS
A collaborative urban art project about the connection between nature and technology
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- The genesis of the artwork
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- LVGA/XY ASTRO FLOWERS
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A collaborative performance artwork of Paste-Up Street Art by Yuri Catania, created on the facade of the Lugano Congress Center during the NFT Fest 2023. The artwork explores the relationship between nature and technology and involved hundreds of people who collaborated by cutting and pasting floral elements framing the astronauts. Completed over a span of 10 days, the final artwork measures 42 meters in length and 8 meters in height. While the paste-up artwork is destined to fade over time, its digital version, tokenized during the event, will continue to exist within the Lugano metaverse. But that's not all! For every flower pasted on the wall by participants, the City has planted a real flower in a new green area dedicated to the artwork.
The genesis of the artwork
The location
LVGA/XY ASTRO FLOWERS
About the artwork
LVGA/XY ASTRO FLOWERS by Yuri Catania, Lugano 2023. Site-specific ephemeral installation measuring 42 meters by 8 meters. Unique, eco-friendly artwork made of paper using the street art technique known as Paste-Up (literally from English: pasting onto a surface). The artwork is a collage of photographs (plants and flowers from Parco Ciani) and digital images (astronauts) created and printed at a 1:1 scale personally by the artist through a real-scale digital art process. The installation involved the collaboration of hundreds of volunteers who participated as individuals and associations.
Digitalization/Tokenization of the Artwork
The physical artwork has been digitized through a 3D scanner and then donated by the artist to the Municipality of Lugano to be displayed in a dedicated space in the City's Metaverse. Through any mobile device, the artwork can be reproduced in mixed reality augmented reality. Lugano Living Lab has participated in tokenizing the artwork on the city's 3Achain blockchain. All volunteers receive a commemorative NFT as a keepsake and gratitude for their participation, representing the timelapse of the performance to be stored in their MyLugano wallet.
A new green area
The over 2000 paper flowers metaphorically planted on the wall by the artist and volunteers will be planted, this time for real, by the city's public green team to create a new green area in the city. The inauguration of this flowerbed, scheduled for spring 2024, will mark the definitive closure of this performance and the completion of a circle that started from art, transitioned through technology, and symbolically concludes in nature.
Artist bio
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