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Robin Rhode
Gusheshe
NFT
Details
Production year
2021
Object type
NFT
Dimensions
1080 × 1080 px
Medium
Digital Animation
Asset type
JPG
Duration
1:00 min
Minted on
SuperRare
Blockchain
Ethereum
Contract address
Token ID
25315
Certificate of Authenticity
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Created by
Robin Rhode, 1976
Signed by
Certificate Signature
Issued by
Lehmann Maupin
Owned by
Private
History
Transferred
Jan 17 2023 00:03:39 UTC
Transferred
Dec 21 2021 17:00:44 UTC
Transferred
Jun 14 2021 12:00:43 UTC
Transferred
Jun 11 2021 15:40:22 UTC
Edited
Jun 11 2021 14:17:48 UTC
Created
Jun 10 2021 22:37:42 UTC
Notes
Notes from Creator
Robin Rhode explores his fascination with ownership, social status, and identity through the nature of virtual artmaking by examining particular objects and their cultural meaning; in this instance, a car with a cult-like street status in his home city of Johannesburg, the BMW E30.
More than just a motor vehicle, this object transcended township culture when first introduced into the South African market during the late 1980s and early 1990s during the ever-tightening apartheid era. The appropriation and modification of cars in the township was more than an expression of gangster flamboyance, becoming a destabilization of status symbols within white minority rule in South Africa.
Rhode explores the cultural affinity to objects that oscillate between an almost erotic romanticism and hyper-masculinity, depicted and created within a virtual world. The NFT seeks to traverse aspects of Afrofuturism by examining the intersection of creative technologies with African Diaspora culture. An everyday object rooted within a specific Black experience is played with and re-imagined within a virtual future.
The VR video content was first produced during the artist’s residency at the Google Arts and Culture Lab in Paris in 2018.

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