NEW FRENCH TOUCH updated submission
Space name
NEW FRENCH TOUCH
NFTS stands for New French Touch !
The primary contact is BnoiitC
Additional Space admins are Albertine Meunier - Artist / Collector, Arthemort - Collector / Art marketing student and Jean-Michel Pailhon - Collector / Entrepreneur
SuperRare usernames of everyone who will be a Space admin are BnoiitC, Albertine and jmpnft
Short bio of the team
BnoiitC
MoCA Founder (2018) – Active member of the Cryptoart and Metaverse communities – Recognized / influential cryptoart collector . MoCA on Cryptovoxel
Albertine Meunier : Artist, Collector
since 1998, albertine explores the essential poetry and esthetics of the networks. She cultivates simple, minimal forms, which may sometimes appear to be tinkered from scratch, but she intentionally distances herself from the hyper-technicity of some digital artworks. Albertine leads us on a playfully, impertinently and drolly poetic journey.
Arthemort
Arthemort is an Art market student at Sotheby’s Institute of Arts, blockchain idealist, art collector and NFT accumulator, fascinated by art and technology, currently working on my thesis on crypto art. Born and raised in art collection, I’m a advocate of contemporary creations from France. I have a certification in Art History from Sotheby’s Institute of Arts, an Art Market Analyst, an Art & Finance and an Art & Tech certification from ArtTactic. Worked in gallery, auction houses, art communications agency and blockchain/art startup.
Jean-Michel Pailhon
Jean-Michel Pailhon is the Vice President at Ledger in charge of the B2B division. He is a Street art collector since 2005, an Art gallerist in Paris and a NFT art collector.
He is currently working with many entrepreneurs in the tech and NFT space to help the NFT scene grow and scale in France and Europe.
Website & Social Media Links
Their NFTs ’ Collections
Their Twitter Accounts
BnoiitC - Albertine - Arthemort - jmpailhon
Their NFTs ’ Creations
BnoiitC
Albertine
Don’t forget ! NFT stands for Nakamoto Female Touch !
**Their Websites **
albertine
Manifesto of our Space
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Promotion of the emerging French Cryptoart Scene – Focus on early cryptoart aesthetic and themes.
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New French Touch Space will be a combination of a digital and physical place to highlight French digital creation, with a pinch of French spirit, not necessarily limited to French artists.
We are revolutionaries ! If there is a Gatekeeper to be beheaded, here we come !
As a nation France has led the way for societal revolution to be adopted (sometimes a bit forcefully i’ll admit it) but ideas and artists freedom have been celebrated throughout history. We believe French creators have once again a role to play during the blockchain revolution that is on its way. We could be protectors of the original ideal of the blockchain by being curator of what represents the fundamentals of crypot art as a movement.Financiarisation of art is unavoidable but the philosophication of NFT should be considered more for the long term perspective of the fantastic art created on the blockchain. The work of rationalisation of the different movements composing NFTs should give it all of its legitimacy in mainstream culture.
If art is THE thing that will help blockchain get into the “real” world and reach mainstream media then there isn’t any nation more experienced in artistic, societal and cultural revolution than France ! If you want NFT to be considered as “real art” by the everyday folk then let us lead the way.
by Arthemort
Our team’s experience curating and promoting artwork
BnoiitC: Founder of MoCA and manager of the main Museum and several Metaverse galleries and artist residences. Visit the MoCA on Cryptovoxel
View of the MoCA
Albertine, digital artist, digital advisor and collector for many years.
Albertine has been working with l’Avant Galerie Vossen for several years as a Digital Advisor. In 2019, she curated with Caroline Vossen Infinite Skulls the first exhibition, an exceptional encounter between a contemporary painter Ronan Barrot and an artist, at this time researcher in artificial intelligence Robbie Barrat.
BARRAT / BARROT 2019 . oil on canvas, UV print on plexiglas . 27 x 68 cm
More recently, in 2021 she curated with Avant Galerie Vossen the exhibition From Tulip to the crypto Marguerite, where for the first time crypto artists, such as Robbie Barrat, Robness, Norman Harman, bananakin, LuluxXX, were exhibited in Paris among paintings, sculpture, A.I works …
*View of the exhibition *
View of the exhibition with in square screen : LuluxXX, Robness, Bleh, Bananakin and Norman Harman
Finally, Albertine runs a free introductory crypto art workshop every two weeks à L’Avant Galerie Vossen in Paris to raise awareness among curious, artists and collectors of this form of digital art.
Arthemort
Arthemort has been curating his crypto art collection on social media (twitter, instagram, tiktok), well connected with the content creator specialized in Art and culture on social media and youtube. Manage the familial collection composed of thousand of works, knows the methodology used to “enhance” an art collection like managing museum lending, cataloging, provenance tracking and due diligence.
Our team’s experience organizing exhibitions, making art sales, running auctions, networking with collectors, etc
BnoiitC: 500+ artworks collected – several solo shows and artist residence set up – occasional high price sales
Albertine: I have been organizing exhibitions as an artist and as a curator for many years. My last experience as a digital advisor is with Avant Galerie Vossen, the Barrat art gallery
400+ artworks collected - collection by alphabetical order
Unable to sell any of her collected artwork !
Arthemort: Organised exhibition of world class artists in a well known parisian gallery, participated in a auction sales at Cornette de Saint-Cyr auction house, organised and managed event for public art installation, well connected to art collectors, critics and art journalist in France and abroad, from both the traditional artworld and crypto art world.
New artists we would like to bring into the Space in the first six months
We will have regular IRL meetings with French artists curious about NFTs and Cryptoart, some already in the space, some still to be onboarded.
Artist NFT FR, artists already in the CryptoArt space that we are planning to work with for the New French Touch Space
Jaen
Kevin Abosch
Lapin Mignon
Luluxxx
Thomas Vanz
Eric Lefaure
Alotta Money
Joanie Lemercier
Ogar
Skeenee
Kibo
Samy La Crapule
Obvious
Aboulaye Barry
Maxime Hacquard
U2P050
PaulB
Gregory Chatonsky
Aurece Vettier
Enora Denis
Bora
VJ Rien
Jesus
Juliet Casella
Alien Dope
Hadrien Durand Baissas
KTRZR
Lossapardo
Thibault Chapelain
Pascal Blanche
Julien Rivoir
Roger Kilimanjaro
Anna Zhilyaeva
Madeon
Benjamin Spark
Jason boyer
Victor Moati
Alexander tamisier
Yayashin
Pascal Bobards
Jwawi
Popey
ALAGRAPHY
Mathieu Laurette
Andy Picci
Haedre
Aurelien soula
Ladislas chachignot
Loui16art
Crypto clay
FARAH
Frederic Tessier
VHILS
ANDRE
Teto
Pplouz
Pogwerk
LemuetArtist non-NFT FR, new artists we would like to bring into the Space in the first six months
Ronan Barrot
Filipe Vilas Boas
Julien Levesque
Rodolphe Barsikian
Fabien Zocco
Laura Mannelli
Orlan
Jennifer Douzenel
Charlie Aubry
Raphaël Pluvinage
Doodleuse
Richard Di Rosa
Eric Theret
Bernar Venet
Fondation Vasarely
Space Invader
Miss Tic
Monsieur Chat
Jerome Mesnager
Miguel Chevalier
Blek le Rat
Les frères Bouroullec
Phillipe Huart
Kriki
Edi Dubien
Denis Monfleur
Paul Raguenes
We have multiple projects under discussion
The Space will benefit from a dedicated Metaverse space and the promotion from BnoiitC and @museumcryptoart tweeter handles.
Structure commission rates
the Artist : 80 % for the artists
the SR DAO : 5%
the New French Tech Space commission : 15%
the importance of NFTs as a medium/technology
NFT is disrupting the Art market to an extent that is still not yet fully understood. It is also a strong driver for a significant art renaissance led by new artists bringing a new energy to the art space.
NFTs are a very big change for digital artists, allowing them to finally make a living from their art. A lot of artists still need to be initiated into the crypto area scene.The Space can be a very big highlight for the french artists scene, showing them the power of the NFTs.
On the other side, becoming an art collector has never been so easy. It’s such a democratic contact with art. But, the crypto art scene can be a bit opaque when you start.
In five years, the Cryptoart space will be as normal as an Amazon order, as huge as the creation is, as powerful as the Blockchain is!
If your Space were a cocktail or a dish, what would it be and why?
BnoiitC
A surprising dish in a trendy boutique Paris restaurant
Albertine
A Croque Monsieur !
Arthemort:
prop 1: If it was a cocktail it would be a Bloody Mary, a cocktail that could have only be created in the roaring 20’s when Paris was a place for artist over the world to express their liberty, and if for Ernest Hemingway this expression was a weird tomato base alcoholic cocktail, then so be it ! It’s weirdly yummy, you gotta admit it.
prop 2: if it was a beverage it would of course be a wine, an alcoholic beverage with a well recognized tradition and a complexity composed of tens of factors to consider. Some wine may elevate the experience of food in a way you couldn’t have imagine.
prop 3: If it was a dish it would be a loaf of bread, a dish that has been the basis of alimentation for thousands of years and that we still have yet to finish to innovate in its creation process and variances. The chef from the world’s best restaurant couldn’t think of not serving a top quality bread to go with his main course.
prop 4: If it was a cake it would be a macaron, delicate, pretty and widely appreciated, macaron have been known by foreigner through their classical flavor popularised by Ladurée but you’ll be surprised how many chef like Pierre Hermé have revolutionised it by proposing a seemingly weird new mix of flavor like a macaron au foie gras.
Anything else you’d like the community to consider?
France has a tradition of aesthetics that is recognized worldwide. Many skilled animators, illustrators, graphic designers, conceptor, in top studios and agencies like pixard are French.
France host some of the most innovative project in the technological field especially in AI, robotics, energy, transport, blockchain regulation, and metaverses.The tradition of innovation is century old, with early example of invention in aeronautics, aerospatial, cinema, network communication, miniaturisation, ect.
The democratic ideal lifted by DAO is also at heart of the spirit of the French nation and the ideas of the lumière, the human right declaration and the concept of laicity being one of the earliest concepts of inclusivity adopted by a society as a whole.
French or based in France artists like Moebus (an illustrator) and Vera molnar were pioneers of genre like generative art and have influenced pop culture, sci-fi and fantasy beyond imagination. The relative importance of French contemporary artists has always been undermined in comparison to their American peers, in the era of decentralisation it would be important not to reproduce the same mistakes.
Many now consider bluechip artists in NFT that you probably know are French and influenced by this culture and its references in their creative process.
The French NFT environment is thrilling with many teams backing top selling projects, and well known collectors backing it, IRL events and exhibitions have already taken place.
This space should be an accelerator for artists, collectors and developers to connect and build further what makes French creation so unique.
The NFT French scene is currently emerging and the New French Touch Space team is part of many ongoing projects involving French artists and institutional players.
We feel this is the right time, with the launch of New French Touch, to give shape to the emerging French Cryptoart scene and a unique opportunity for SuperRare to take the lead in this territory and extend its global footprint.
This is also a critical turn for historic cryptoart actors like SuperRare to keep momentum and maintain their lead while prestigious, deep pocket, well established traditional art players are still trying to figure out how to catch up and invest the space, capitalizing on their physical territorial presence and IRL network.
New French Touch also has the ambition to set standards for future territorial SuperRare Spaces and will be happy to share experiences with future Space candidates.