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PREEMINENT FIGURE IN MICROPHOTOGRAPHY, MANFRED P. KAGE, DROPS GENESIS NFTS

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ELEMENTUM DEBUTS MANFRED P. KAGE’S ARTWORK AS NFTS

 

As one of the first to bridge the new possibilities of NFTs with art, elementum
is a pioneering platform for visionary digital creatives as well as collectors –
just land at Zurich Airport to see the immersive NFT gallery for instance. The
platform sits at the forefront of digital art by solely working with pioneers of
algorithmic art. As such, elementum has dropped the genesis NFT of renowned
figure in microphotography, Manfred P. Kage (1935-2019).


Image © 1966 Manfred P. Kage with Carl Strüwe group exhibition, Copyright ©
KAGE Mikrofotografie

 

 

Manfred P. Kage (1935-2019) was a renowned artist, science photographer,
filmmaker and inventor who was a prominent member of the ZERO art movement. By
coining the terms ‘science art’ and ‘modern science art’, his work used
innovative techniques to visually depict the complexity of nature. From the
Museum of Modern Art in New York to global events like the Olympic Games, EXPO
and Venice Biennale, Kage’s creations revolutionized the synthesis of science
and art. A true pioneer in digital art whose work, for the first time, has now
been dropped as NFTs by the elementum platform.

 

 

‘The fact that things are not what they appear was an enlightenment for me then,
it was like opening the door to a mysterious world – a universe that can explore
step by step and gain insights,’ said Manfred P. Kage.


Image © Manfred P. Kage, courtesy of elementum, Radiolarie – No. 2, 2004

 

 


ELEMENTUM’S MANFRED P. KAGE’S GENESIS NFT SERIES

 

The first of the genesis series is titled ‘Radiolarie – No. 2’. Radiolaria are
microscopic unicellar organisms that form aesthetically beautiful skeletons of
silica in the sea. Fifty of these skeletons fit on the size of a pencil dot. The
artwork realized Manfred P. Kage’s creative challenge to visually uncover the
aesthetics of the tiniest micro-worlds. The artist made this tangible for
viewers through his work, thanks to the invention of SEM science art that used a
scanning electron microscopy established in 1977.


Image © Manfred P. Kage, courtesy of elementum, Dimensionssprung, 2007

 

 

With a seemingly natural blur of vibrant colors, ‘Dimensionssprung’ is the
second work of the NFT series. The artwork formed part of Manfred P. Kage’s
‘Microverse of Crystals’ series which are crystal-optical pictorial works
created with the help of a polychromator. This machine is an optical synthesizer
used for microphotography, invented by Kage himself in 1957.


Image © Manfred P. Kage, courtesy of elementum, Mikrokosmos Verschmelzung, 2009

 

 

Kage’s three NFTs are currently on view at the group show ‘Liebe Maschine, male
mir’ at the pop-up elementum.art NFT Gallery at Zurich Airport in collaboration
between elementum and Kate Vass Galerie. Manfred P. Kage’s ‘Mikrokosmos
Verschmelzung’ transports art into the stratosphere. It illuminates the
invisible connection between human existence, nature and the cosmos in his new
multimedia. The artwork visually combines the crystallization of acenapht
compounds in the microscope with an astro-image from NASA. The explosions of
elements capture the all-encompassing rhythm of chaos and order in organisms.

 

‘When I met Manfred P. Kage for the first time at the exhibition ZERO at Martin
in Gropius Bau in Berlin in 2015, it was a great revelation for me to experience
an immersive multimedia performance which was conducted through microscopic
imagery. I instantaneously saw the deep connection between the hidden secrets of
nature and the mathematical beauty in digital art. The sheer amount of
self-constructed apparatuses and inventions by Kage in the history microscopy
was quite overwhelming,‘ explains Georg Bak, digital art advisor and curator of
the NFT drop. 

 

‘In my numerous discussions with Gottfried Jäger (founder of generative
photography) and Herbert W. Franke (a close friend of Manfred P. Kage, who wrote
his obituary) I learned that many of the early computer artists were heavily
influenced by microscopic art. Gottfried Jäger curated an exhibition with
Manfred P. Kage and Carl Strüwe (another great microscopic photographer) in
Bielefeld in the 1960s. When looking back at the historical art + tech
exhibitions such as for example “The New Landscape in Art and Science” by György
Kepes microscopic images were quite prominently displayed. However the context
of microscopic and scientific imagery within digital art is still quite
unexplored.‘

 

 

series info:

 

platform: elementum

artist: Manfred P. Kage

drop date: Friday, 9 December at 5pm CET

 

Explore the Manfred P. Kage works on the elementum.art platform and secondary
market on OpenSea.

 

Visit the group exhibition ‘Liebe Maschine, male mir’, on view at the
elementum.art NFT Gallery, Circle 18, 8058 in Zurich.

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