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In recent years, painter and legendary art forger Wolfgang
Beltracchi has opened a new chapter of his career. The core of his
latest work is an extensive series of paintings, titled The Greats,
that have been put on sale as digital artworks using NFT
technology. Its starting point was the Salvator Mundi, a painting
attributed to Leonardo da Vinci and sold in 2017 in an auction at
Christie’s in New York for $450m to an unknown buyer. Beltracchi
studied the picture meticulously and created several hundred
versions of the motif in a variety of styles, ranging from high
renaissance to pop art, or depicting Jesus in the personification
of Mick Jagger or Mao Zedong. The result is a fascinating game of
deception with the disputed painting and its symbolism. This
large-format book combines photographic insights into Beltracchi's
everyday life in the studio by renowned Swiss photographer Alberto
Venzago with a documentation of The Greats collection. Texts are
contributed by Stanford University professor emeritus Hans Ulrich
Gumbrecht, German philosophers Peter Sloterdijk and Markus Gabriel,
German journalist Ulrike Posche, German finance executive Leonhard
Fischer, Swiss-based cryptocurrency and NFT expert Hansen Wang,
Swiss art dealer Guido Persterer, and Alberto Venzago. A
conversation between Beltracchi and Swiss writer and philosopher
René Scheu rounds out this volume that describes and interprets
the phenomenon of this extraordinary artist from a range of
perspectives.
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