Intraverse
Ninfa gallery in collaboration with Eth
Milan, Italy
Italy's Finest was a group exhibition of Italian digital artists presented by NINFA, the Milan-based curated NFT marketplace, in partnership with SignorCrypto and Intraverse. It was an official side event of ETHMilan, the first edition of the city's conference on Ethereum, held at Palazzo delle Stelline. The show opened with an evening party at NINFA Labs, the platform's exhibition space at Via dell'Aprica 16 in the Isola district, a room of more than 200 square metres equipped with screens for showing NFT works.
The line-up gathered fourteen names from the Italian crypto art scene: Federico Clapis, Skygolpe, Fabio Giampietro, Giuseppe Veneziano, Mattia Cuttini x Wen, Dark Mark, Emanuele Dascanio, Danilo Fala, Emanuele Ferrari, Karisma, Manfredi Caracciolo, Matteo Mauro, Giovanni Motta and Paolo Regis. The installation view shows Clapis' contribution on a column of three stacked screens mounted on a wall: a white female figure with a draped head, modelled like one of his sculptures, is split across the frames so that the body seems to continue from one screen to the next. A QR code sits beside it, and further screens by other artists glow along the darkened gallery.
The exhibition placed Clapis within a survey of Italian crypto art, at the moment when the Ethereum community gathered in Milan for the conference. The vertical, multi-screen format shows how his figurative, sculptural language is adapted to the display formats of crypto art.