Oliver Laric: Decomposer
Folia is pleased to announce a new interactive collection by Oliver Laric
(@Still_Available): "Decomposer" available for mint on Sat. May 7, 7:00PM UTC on folia.app/works/decomposer-oliver-laric
This will be Laric’s third project in the NFT space, following the release of 2000 Cliparts on Folia and a new set of works from the “Becoming” series on Foundation.
Decomposer allows collectors to mint new "decomposed" NFTs from a set of 60 NFT collections curated by Oliver, using a script first developed in his 2007 piece "Pixels Rearranged from Lightest to Darkest"
original “sorted” images from Pixels Rearranged from Lightest to Darkest (2007) http://oliverlaric.com/displacement.htm
Upon mint, each pixel will be arranged from lightest to darkest—creating a stratum of color. The collector retains their original NFT and the new "decomposed" NFT is minted into their wallet. The collections are a mix of generative art, profile picture, and metaverse collections, chosen both for their prominence in the space as well as the diverse and colorful aesthetic variations the output produces. Among those available to mint are Bored Ape Yacht Club, Chromie Squiggles, CloneX as well as Folia collections like Emoji Script and Dotcom Seance.
Decomposed EmojiScript (2021) by Travess Smalley
The full list of decomposable collections is available on decomposer.folia.app. Mints will be limited to 888, with a maximum of 88 mints per collection. Price will be fixed at .08 per mint. The mint contract can be updated to include new contracts via submission by Decomposer holders.
Oliver Laric was born in 1981 in Innsbruck, Austria, and lives and works in Berlin. Forthcoming exhibitions are scheduled at Museum Romanité Nîmes, Tanya Leighton Berlin, and Pedro Cera Lisbon. He has had one-person exhibitions at the Saint Louis Art Museum; Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany; Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin; Secession, Vienna; Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland; Austrian Cultural Forum, London; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; and the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has also participated in group exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery, London; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Kunstverein München; and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams. Laric’s work was included in the 2015 New Museum Triennial, 2016 Liverpool Biennial, 2018 São Paulo Biennial, 2018 Guangzhou Triennial and the 2021 Seoul Mediacity Biennale.
His works are held in the public collections of the Walker Art Center, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, MMK Frankfurt, Cleveland Art Museum, MUMOK Vienna and Hirshhorn Museum Washington D.C. among others.