Two years in the making, a brilliant crypto collaboration comes full circle. Mattia Cuttini, a nebula that birthed many a star in the metaverse, and Skygolpe, master of one of the most recognisable motifs in crypto art. On the 27th of April, 2020, when a pandemic shut down the meatspace, these two artists began a fevered, creative dialogue between the abstract and the human in all of us. And Verba Manent is an incredible inflection point in that conversation.
The contradictions are delicious and deep. Mattia is not pseudonymous or anonymous, but his work is a headlong plunge into abstractions with tangible, even physical results. And Skygolpe - the name itself a ‘semantic shock’ as he woul...