Oculi by Charles Pétillon
A Collection of 1,536 Art NFTs
Reimagining the way NFTs are used, Oculi is a collection of 1,536 NFTs designed by Charles Pétillon, which correspond to 1,536 verses of the 50 most famous poems of Guillaume Apollinaire and Paul Verlaine. The poems are now brought to a web3 life through the Oculi NFT Collection.
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This balloons invasions is a metaphor, to change the point of view on what we see every day without paying attention to it.
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Each of the 1,536 NFTs is named as a verse of one of the 50 renowned poems of Guillaume Apollinaire and Paul Verlaine.
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When Charles Pétillon enters into the Petit Palais in Paris, the presence of balloons introduces a style of writing coming from a world in Mutation.
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Charles Pétillon excels in what we might call the art of visual haiku. With the short Japanese poems, his creations share the same inclination toward capturing a moment, toward the concise evocation of the elusive nature of the world, and the same deceptive simplicity.
“These balloon invasions, are metaphors. Their purpose is to change our perspective on things that we encounter every day without paying attention.”
These large NFT Work of Art, composed of 1,536 Non-Fungible Token, minted on the Blockchain the 23rd of June 2022, are reminiscent of the artist's photographic work, which also evokes this idea of motion, of time elapsed, of a before and an after materialized by the flowing movement of the balloons. Then perhaps the best way to characterize the work of Charles Pétillon is to speak of a world in suspension, where things are not yet definite but purposely maintained as potentialities. A world in suspension that reaches out beyond the works themselves and extends over time, and in the mind of the viewer.
Born in 1973, Charles Pétillon is an artist known for his photographs and his large-scale in situ installations. His work is regularly shown in galleries around the world, as well as in museums in Shanghai, London, New York City or Paris. Often solicited for projects in the public space, his large-scale in situ works include a monumental installation made up of more than 100,000 balloons at the Covent Garden in London, in 2015, and one in Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport in 2020.
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