EDUARDO KAC (1962) Lot n° 19

Lagoglyph Animation USB Key and NFT Video in loop - 5mn The USB key is made of metal and comes in a box. NFT from an edition of 3  Smart Contract Address: https://polygonscan.com/address/0x5956a501258DAe0DB1e4255205b079822c5ddCf5 Eduardo Kac is internationally recognized for his groundbreaking work in contemporary art and poetry. In the early 1980s, Kac created digital, holographic and online works that anticipated the global culture we live in today. In 1997 the artist coined the term "Bio Art", igniting the development of this new art form with works such as his transgenic rabbit GFP Bunny (2000) and Natural History of the Enigma (2009), which earned him the Golden Nica, GFP Bunny has become a global phenomenon, having been appropriated by major popular culture franchises such as Sherlock, Big Bang Theory and Simpsons, and by writers such as Margaret Atwood and Michael Crichton. In 2017, Kac created Inner Telescope, a work conceived for and realized in outer space with the cooperation of French astronaut Thomas Pesquet. Kac's singular and highly influential career spans poetry, performance, drawing, printmaking, photography, artist's books, early digital and online works, holography, telepresence, bio art, and space art. Edouardo Kac will be present at the 59th Venice Biennale from April 23 to November 27, 2022.   Lagoglyphs are a series of works in which I develop a leporimorph or rabbitographic form of writing since 2006. As visual language that alludes to meaning but resists interpretation, the Lagoglyphs series stands as the counterpoint to the barrage of discourses generated through, with, and around my GFP Bunny (my green-glowing transgenic bunny, called Alba, created in 2000).The pictograms that make up the Lagoglyphs are visual symbols representing Alba. The Lagoglyphs function through a repertoire of gestures, textures, forms, juxtapositions, superpositions, opacities, transparencies, and ligatures. These coalesce into an idioglossic and polyvalent script structured through visual compositional units that multiply meanings. Composed of doublemark calligraphic units (one in green, the other in black), the Lagoglyphs evoke the birth of writing (as in cuneiform script, hieroglyphic orthography, or ideography). However, they deliberately oscillate between monoreferentiality (always Alba) and the patterns of a visual idiolect (my own). In so doing, the Lagoglyphs ultimately form a kind of pictorial idioglossia or cryptolanguage. In the Lagoglyphs, I bring together the multiple forms and the varied issues that have continuously informed my art. Indeed, a new chirographic synthesis that is also a new beginning, one in which word and image come together as mark and meaning