Marine Foam on redwood daiza, Black Sands Beach, Marin Headlands, California, 2019

CURATORIAL STATEMENT

Alex Arzt’s new work continues TAEX’s research on space in crypto art, following the group drop ‘NFT derive’ and Pavel Braila’s work on the Republican stadium in Moldova. Arzt’s drop is a radical challenge, stirring the boundaries between physical and digital, nature and culture and local and global. The drop presents six works that are ultra detailed digital sculpture of stones created from scratch, resembling meteorites floating in space. Opposite to it, the nature of these works is more than human. Each of the digital works is based on a physical sculpture made in the Japanese traditional ‘suiseki’ technique, but works with materials associated with human presence on Earth: concrete, asphalt, marine foam. They not only signify the urgency of climate change’s planetary challenge, but establish the connection with particular locations in the US as Headlands in Northern California, both affected by humans, symbolically and physically.