This code-driven work – the first-ever artwork to be tokenized on a blockchain – narrates an ongoing, abstract cycle of birth, death, and rebirth through color, line, and movement. Following its sales at “Natively Digital: A Curated NFT Sale” at Sotheby’s in 2021, the work was on view at The Hermitage Museum and at The Decentral Art Pavilion during the 59th Venice Biennale.
“In 2014, I had an idea to use blockchain technology to create indelible provenance and ownership of digital images of this kind. Quantum was the first ever to be recorded in this way.” Kevin McCoy, 2021
“How to picture the moment of creation. A spark, a seed, a particle. We have narratives that describe it as an interval of days or as a cryptic alphabet that divides the earth from the firmament. Kevin McCoy’s Quantum takes its place alongside other original icons replacing their aura and gilding with a pulsating luminous heartbeat. To call this a mandala would not be an understatement, since what is a mandala if not an allegory for a universe, its revolutions, breath and winking into being out of nothingness?” - David Geers, art critic, 2021
