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Decentral Art Pavilion

Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, during the Venice Biennale

Venice, Italy

  • Babydrone Concretes by Federico Clapis on a vertical screen in a room of Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, Decentral Art Pavilion, Venice
  • Poster of the Decentral Art Pavilion with the facade of Palazzo Giustinian Lolin on the Grand Canal at dusk, where Federico Clapis exhibited

The Decentral Art Pavilion presented Singularity in Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, a Baroque palace on the Grand Canal between the Gallerie dell'Accademia and Palazzo Grassi, running in parallel with the Venice Art Biennale. Curated and organised by Florencia S.M. Brück, Javier Krasuk, Diego Lijtmaer and Simone Furian, with installation design by David Rodríguez Gimeno, the show described itself as an anthology of NFT art meant to explain decentralised art and the role of the blockchain to a broad public. It brought together more than 200 works by over 80 international artists, including XCOPY, Coldie, Justin Aversano, Trevor Jones and Filip Custic, with dedicated sections such as "0.14" on the early history of NFTs, curated by Robert Alice, and a photography section curated by Arianna Grava. A virtual version in the metaverse and augmented reality views around the city extended the exhibition beyond the palace.

Federico Clapis appears in the pavilion's list of artists. The documentation shows his Babydrone Concretes on a tall vertical screen standing in one of the palace's rooms, under a dark painted ceiling: a weathered version of the Babydrone sculpture, a drone holding a child in a sling, covered in graffiti and set in an abandoned industrial courtyard, with the title, his name and a QR code on the frame.

The presentation set a digital reworking of Clapis' Babydrone sculpture in a historic Venetian interior, alongside many artists associated with the early NFT movement, during the city's main contemporary art event.

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