$HT Coin: After de Kooning

Every day of July, 2021, Cassils “ate” the diets of top grossing white male artists producing 33 unique cans. Cassils “consumed” these white male artists’ food, “shat” into a can and sold it as an NFT. Cassils's cans are inspired by a famous work of art by Piero Manzoni (1961). Initially the project was announced under the nom de plume “White Male Artist”. This fits into a long history of artists employing pseudonyms to critique a centuries old, outdated art market in which value is determined by the identity of the creator rather than the merit of the work. $HT Coin is released into a market in which only 2% of the top grossing contemporary artists are not cisgender men. At this moment whe...View all