The popular app Terra Virtua will feature a new NFT collection featuring exclusive artwork from various popular artists.
The app has worked with American artist L.A. Migiotto on the new series. The digital virtual reality platform and Migiotto have teamed up to create 10 assembles.
The app’s pieces have been re-imagined from never-before-seen images and artwork from the chosen musical artists. Terra Virtua’s website has provided the following statement concerning their exciting new partnership. “Fuelled by a very modern obsession, L.A. Migiotto gained access to the Lyons Archive, a vast photographic treasure chest, chronicling over 30 years of celebrity from candid shots, to infamous moments in time. From this gold mine, Migiotto has curated images of icons such as Bowie, Madonna, Jagger and Winehouse – figures the world has elevated to levels of unattainable perfection, previously reserved for those depicted in myths, legend and fiction. While to many they are heroes, in just one moment they can be made the villain… Migiotto’s work seeks to question, who created them? Was it us, as a society? Do we have as much influence over them as they have over us.”
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The purpose of an NFT or a non-fungible token is to store data, the NFT is a unit of data that is then stored on a digital ledger. The ledger is often called a blockchain and exists to certify the digital asset (files and information that is in a digital format and includes the right to use) to enable the asset to be distinctive and thus non-interchangeable.
Terra Virtua is often regarded as a new and exciting format in which fans can boost their passion and own un-breakable collectables of their favourite artists and interests.
The CEO at Terra Virtua, Gary Bracey has given the following statement regarding the new collection and the platforms new alliance with Migiotto. “This is an incredibly exciting partnership for us. Our collaboration with Lyons Gallery provides another exciting platform for us to showcase the breadth and quality of Terra Virtua’s digital collectables. It’s fascinating to see how this collection of images, of icons from past and present, have been brought to life by L.A. Migiotto and we look forward to building on this partnership in future.”
The complete collection was made accessible on 2nd September 2021 at 5 PM via the Terra Virtua marketplace. The full collection includes a list of iconic figures from various genres of music including David Bowie, Sir Mick Jagger, Beyonce, Britney Spears, Madonna, Amy Winehouse, Mariah Carey, Jay Z, Iggy Pop and Sir Elton John. The website has affixed the collection’s piece staring Sir John with this description. “With his ‘dressing-up box’ the envy of the world, Elton has taken on many guises from Louis XIV to Rocket Man with as much added glitter as you can handle. In real life existing in a bubble of success – outside the chaos of reality – but still feeling the itch of the universe calling for more. Are the successful ever satisfied as they battle against the insatiability of the ‘id’.”
A press release provides the following statement concerning the new series: “the relationship society as an audience has with these figures”. The statement describes the collection’s representation of Bowie. (The piece) “draws on images from NASA expeditions in an ode to Starman, Major Tom and Ziggy Stardust.”
This is not Terra Virtua’s only exciting project, the pioneering digital platform recently made headlines with a historical venture. The app acquired the exclusive rights to the popular film ‘Godzilla Vs. Kong‘, making it the first NFT to be released in accordance with a major motion picture.
Click here to see the full collection.
