Found Objects is an NFT collection made of photographs of found coins. Each coin found is inventoried into a collection, and each NFT is accompanied by its matching physical coin.
The photographic series started in 2008, evolving into what would later become a documentation, in real time, of the transition from the Fiat Monetary System into the new era of digital Decentralized Finances (DeFi).
It takes its name from artist Marcel Duchamp’s definition of the “Found Object”, as these coins represent “small insignificant objects with no value or meaning”. Once stripped out of their face value, they can be easily “re-valuated” as artworks and attributed with multiple meanings and interpretations of their symbolism.
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Miami, FL
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FIRST EDITION
First published in 2024
First printing of 10,000 numbered copies
Hardcover, 10.3 x 13.2 in.,
9.49 lb
532 pages
Edition: Multilingual (English, French, German)
© 2024. One Sun Media. Miami, FL, US.
ISBN 897 13582534647
Printed in the US.
© All artworks by their respective creators
© All texts by their respective contributor
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Francis Acea (born in 1967 in Havana) is an artist known for his inspiration from what The Language of Objects in the Art of the Americas describes as “the often anonymous creations of provisional art.”[1] Along with artist Diango Hernández, also inspired by the provisional art movement in Cuba, he formed the Ordo Amoris Cabinet.[1] Acea is a graduate of the Havana Superior Institute of Design.[2] As of 2023, Acea lives between New York, NY, and Florida, FL. Acea has exhibited internationally, solo, and in group. Ordo Amoris Cabinet ceased in 2003 and Francis Acea sought asylum in the US. While working in different media such as painting, installation, and photography, Francis Acea shows a keen interest in the collision between art and economics, namely the Art Market. His current works explore the notion of value in contemporary capitalism. In 2004, he created a media company publishing in print and online. As of 2023, Acea lives and works between New York, NY, and Florida, FL.
Edición especial de carteles del activista, disidente y vocalista de la banda de rock punk Porno para Ricardo, Gorki Aguila. Esta serie, producida exclusivamente para One Sun Media en colaboración con el artista, consiste en 50 carteles curados por Francis Acea, ofrecidos en una edición limitada de diez fine art prints cada uno, disponibles en cuatro tamaños diferentes.
El trabajo gráfico del artista multidisciplinario Gorki Aguila merece validación debido a su calidad, creatividad y al volumen de trabajo que ha desarrollado. Sus soluciones gráficas, tanto en concepto como en denuncia política, se destacan por la mezcla de tendencias diversas que incorporan el texto político para denunciar, mostrando su irreverencia al régimen, en su constante búsqueda por la verdad.
“La gráfica es otra de mis pasiones. Tiene una fuerza expresiva contundente. Debe ser por eso que las hienas de la Seguridad del Estado ya me han impuesto una carta de advertencia bajo pena de ir a la cárcel si sigo publicando en redes sociales lo que ellos llaman “ofensas contra los dirigentes de este país“ – Gorki Aguila.
