NFT artist Raphael Dudler

I’ve been making art for as long as I can remember.

I had already looked at NFT art in 2020 and understood nothing. A year later, I gave myself another jolt and immersed myself in the completely abstract subject matter of blockchain, crypto and NFTs, which was so new to me.

All my NFTs can be easily viewed and traded on the opensea.io NFT trading platform. They include both photographs and digitally created works on various topics.

Two categories of NFTs

In my NFT art, I distinguish between two NFT categories.
The first category contains digital works in the form of image or video files, which are what they are: Images or videos.

A second NFT category is called utility NFT. In simple terms, a utility is a service program that is attached to the image or video file.

This means that when you purchase a utility NFT, you are not only purchasing the visible image or video (which are actually ownership rights to the file), but also everything that is attached to the image or video as an additional service.

The fusion of NFT art and the work that you can hang on your wall

NFT art, or rather what is more popularly and casually referred to as NFT, has not yet reached the center of society and therefore this art form is not really understood as art. People make fun of how speculators driven by greed have “fallen for” some colorful pictures and lost fortunes in the process. People also feel sorry for normal earners who have also succumbed to the hype of NFTs – not the hype, but their greed, and think they know everything better.

As an artist, it’s not my job to engage in politics or educational work.

Shut the fuck up!

The symbiosis of art held as a non-fungible token in a wallet and a physically produced work that can actually be hung on the wall may help to reconcile the old way of thinking with the new possibilities. What we are talking about today and what artists are trying to explain to viewers about the technology, how it works and the sense and nonsense of non-fungible tokens will be seen as a waste of time in the next few years. Humans, who initiate and fuel technology and its development, want to stop it at the same time and are opposed to any form of progress. So back to the cave paintings. But we have that too! It’s called graffiti. But who am I to explain art?

2021

I tokenized my oil and acrylic works – putting this art on the blockchain as NFTs, as well as bringing NFTs into the old and familiar art world, making them tangible for the hand and mind. And I won’t deny that I dismissed and discarded “NFT” as a whim and gimmick of the new possibilities in 2020.

It wasn’t until April 2021 that I understood the sense & purpose of trading goods and assets via blockchain and I created my first NFT artwork.

Today, I am happy to be well versed in the world of NFT art, but also in the world of blockchain in general, and to be prepared for the future. That’s why I see myself and my work not only as a creator of digital assets, but also as a bridge builder between the old and new art worlds.

The Swiss Golden Calf

The Swiss Golden Calf edition is a good example of this.
Created as pixel art and a tribute to the cryptopunks, these NFTs can be minted independently.

They are PFP NFTs – profile picture NFTs – consisting of over 7,500 unique items. Profile pictures can be used on X and other social media platforms or, of course, traded.
And then there are physical works by Swiss Golden Calf – put them on the wall!

visit the website of the Swiss Golden Calf