How to protest against the culture of getting rich quick with cryptocurrencies? By blowing up a Lamborghini Huracan and creating 999 Nft. This is the idea of the artist Shl0ms which aims to demonstrate that cryptographic technology has the potential to be used for much higher purposes than making money.
The concept is a bit complicated – a million dollars was spent to make these 999 Nft – but Shl0ms himself explains it: “This technology is incredibly promising, there are so many good things we could do with it, but there are so many terrible things that are done with the NFT “.
The artist chose a Lamborghini because “the Lambo is a rather powerful representation of people who simply deal with cryptocurrencies to make money as quickly as possible”. Destruction as a motif of creation is quite common in the traditional art world. Not that common in the cryptocurrency world. And here comes the idea of Shl0ms who even mentions Marcel Duchamp since before the opera Lamborghini recreated a urinal to then tear it to pieces: he collected every tiny fragment and transformed 150 of them into short video clips. At the end of 2021, he sold these video clips for an NFT collection, raising half a million dollars. “It is a mix between physical and digital – explains the artist – which led me to blow up a real object to transform its fragments into NFT”. So with the help of some engineers specialized in explosives Shl0ms managed to make sure that after the explosion the pieces remained identifiable. And from these (they can be seen at the end of the video) he made 999 small slow motion videos, which were then transformed into NFT.
Vincenzo Borgomeo