5D Digital Statue!
Cai Lei's First NFT
Cai Lei's First NFT Digital Sculpture Special Exhibition
"Three Units" + "World Projection"
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Block Three
250*60*50.5cm
Bronze, 24k gold leaf
2020 year
Cai Lei's NFT creation is the inevitable advancement of the artist's personal technical and theoretical growth, as well as the inevitable evolution of contemporary sculpture driven by the development of art history.
Cai Lei's early works are willing to discuss "dimensions", incorporating time into static sculptures, extending three-dimensionality to two-dimensional coordinates. And digital art gives the possibility to challenge the five-dimensional space: breaking the linear thinking and physical habits, the gold dots and lines abstracted by the work contain fractals, solitons, and chaos in the dynamics. In the 2020 new work series, "Three Units" is covered with gold leaf, but it covers not the common gods, but the stairs leading to the gods. If the work presented in the exhibition hall still has a sense of everyday familiarity, then in the video, the digital ladder shrouded by the holy light has broken away from the daily life and extended to the unknown of the universe.
From Plato's fable in the cave, art has been pursuing infinity and being close to reality, but it has drifted away from it in form. In the deep cultivation of sculptures and other categories, Cai Lei's "0102#" and other works can be compared with Fontana's breakthrough of tearing the plane, but it is further that the transformation of the medium can promote the most in-depth expression of the concept.
The perspective of the reality sculpture in "Projection of the World" rises up, and the virtual dynamic effects go deep into the interior. The discussion of "viewing" does not stop at the perception of the surface, and moves toward the connection between the internal structure and the "emptiness" and "emptiness". In the last frame, Plato’s candlelight, “the record of numbers after the time dimension has passed” can still be seen in the darkness, and is no longer a fleeting shadow. The blockchain gives evidence of the existence of art. If time is unlimited, this is true.
Artist introduction
Cai Lei was born in Changchun, Jilin Province in 1983. He graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a master's degree. He currently lives and works in Beijing. Cai Lei’s recent solo exhibitions include: Unit (Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, 2020); 23 square meters (Baishi Gallery, Taipei, 2018); Scenery-Distinction (Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, 2016); Vagueness-A cappella (Contemporary) Tang Art Center, Hong Kong, 2016); Vagueness (Linda Art Center, Beijing, 2015); Dimensionality reduction (Linda Art Center, Singapore, 2014), etc. His works have been exhibited in important museums at home and abroad and won awards many times, including Taylor Foundation (Paris), Bonn Museum of Contemporary Art (Germany), Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art (USA), Liu Haisu Art Museum (Shanghai), Beijing Minsheng Art Museum (Beijing), Today Art Museum (Beijing), Poly Art Museum (Beijing), Taipei Guandu Art Museum (Taiwan), Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum (Beijing), Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum (Chongqing), Zhi Art Museum (Chengdu), Blue Roof Art Museum (Chengdu), Yangtze River Contemporary Art Museum (Chongqing), Datong Museum (Datong), etc. His works have also been collected by many art galleries, public institutions and individuals.