At the Milan Design Week fans will be able to admire live MetaINK 3Dthe digital sculpture of Gabriele Pellerone. Are you ready to immerse yourself in virtual reality) Do you want to relive his performance? Let’s find out more details together!
Gabriele Pellerone
MetaINK is the first tattoo ever made in the metaverse in Italy. It was to do so Gabriele Pellerone, twenty-nine year old internationally renowned tattoo artist. Gabriele Pellerone is also known for his exhibition of paintings tattooed on synthetic leather at the Biennale Arteand boasts inclusion in the Forbes Italia 2022 ranking of the 100 young people under 30 who will change the world.
During a performance in a virtual space last April, Gabriele wore a headset Oculus and drawn on the “skin” of a gender fluid avatar inspired by Metropolis by Fritz Lang. Subsequently, the work was divided into five elements that became as many Non Fungible Tokens.
The work in its entirety was present in the exhibition Dart 2121 at the Museo della Permanente in Milan and in the coming months it will also be possible to see it in Europe, the United States and China.
MetaINK 3D
Now one of these pieces has become a public work of art: MetaINK 3D. The appointment is from 9 to 12 June, during the Milan Design Week. Are you ready to see the avatar’s shimmering head displayed in the form of a hologram? Do not miss to pass then in Corso Garibaldi (corner of Via Luchino Visconti).
Fans and the curious who have come to admire this work will also be able to wear an Oculus viewer from 10 to 19. The project is made possible by Pellerone’s collaboration with LAB9 and Stratton Labs. LAB9 is the design studio of Stefano Santomauro e Alessandro Galli.
The statements
“This is the first of many initiatives that I would like to carry out to take the tattoo beyond the boundaries of the skin, into another dimension, that of digital art”, he explains Pellerone. “This artistic project allows me to combine two passions that stimulate my creativity on a daily basis: tattooing and technology. In the future, the tattoo will be an art form that will be exhibited on digital sculptures visible to the naked eye or in the immersive reality of the metaverse ”.
“Contributing to this project with our technological know-how was a challenging but rewarding challenge,” he says Santomauro. A first step to build something meaningful, useful and relevant in the context of the Italian entrepreneurial reality “.
“Innovations scare when you don’t have the basic knowledge to understand them but they become a great opportunity for those who decide to invest in it first of all with education and then with capital”, he comments Simone Piece, founder of Stratton Labs. “Our role as intermediaries is to help entrepreneurs and creatives to approach this new reality without running unnecessary risks and avoidable mistakes”
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