{"id":17392,"date":"2023-03-14T20:51:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T20:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/art\/justin-aversano-on-how-smoke-and-mirrors-confronts-loss-and-life\/"},"modified":"2023-03-14T20:51:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T20:51:32","slug":"justin-aversano-on-how-smoke-and-mirrors-confronts-loss-and-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/art\/justin-aversano-on-how-smoke-and-mirrors-confronts-loss-and-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Aversano on How \u2018Smoke and Mirrors\u2019 Confronts Loss and Life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Web3 mixed-media photographer Justin Aversano will debut the latest iteration of his well-known Smoke and Mirrors collection at Gabba Gallery in Los Angeles on March 25.<\/li>\n
The exhibition will consist of 78 limited-edition silkscreen-on-papyrus prints of portraits attached to NFTs. Viewers can see the prints, which depict \u201chealers, spiritualists, creatives, and family,\u201d until April 8.<\/li>\n
Aversano tells nft now that he has a particularly intimate connection to the pieces in this exhibit. \u201cAll of these artworks, all these art projects really come from a place in myself of death,\u201d he explains. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
Dive deeper<\/h2>\n
Justin Aversano is a household name in Web3. One of several individuals to help put NFT photography on the map, the artist has released some of the most successful and thought-provoking projects the space has seen in recent memory. <\/p>\n
Twin Flames, a collection of photographs showcasing 100 pairs of twins that helped establish Aversano as one of the top-selling photographers in Web3, was partly a tribute to the artist\u2019s late fraternal twin. The collection remains one of the most sought-after projects in the community and has done 5,900 ETH (just under $10 million) in trading volume on the secondary market.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Aversano\u2019s work often deals with themes of death, pain, and the intangible relationships and connections that exist beyond the limits of ordinary human perception. Smoke and Mirrors, the photographer\u2019s February 2022 collection, embraces this idea perhaps more directly than any other of his works. <\/p>\n
The collection consists of 78 portraits of \u201cartists, astrologers, psychics, tarot readers, and other forms of mystics\u201d from around the globe, each representing a unique tarot card. Now, Aversano is taking Smoke and Mirrors into new territory by debuting photographs from the collection at the Gabba Gallery in Los Angeles on March 25, reimagined through the medium of silkscreen on papyrus prints.\u00a0<\/p>\n
From ancient Egypt to the blockchain<\/h2>\n
While speaking to nft now about the collection, Aversano drew comparisons between the NFT tech of today and the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt, pointing to the permanent and expressive nature both share.\u00a0<\/p>\n