From Creation to Value: Understanding Huang Yuxing’s Blue Chip NFT Series “Meta-Morphic”
Art NFTs bring a new wave of collectors, a closer relationship between artists and their community, and a greater understanding of digital and generative art practices. However, the vast NFT market can make discovering top artwork challenging. LiveArt provides a curated experience for discovering and purchasing artwork.
LiveArt’s team brings decades of experience in the arts industry, as well as pioneering Web3 practices. Since its establishment, LiveArt has launched popular events such as LiveArt Membership NFT and LiveArtX Global 100.
On September 7, 2022, LiveArt announced its launch of “Meta-Morphic”, a generative art, multi-chapter NFT collection from Huang Yuxing. The LiveArt community has expanded worldwide, with many communities showing great interest in this NFT collection. Thousands of people have joined the approval list for Meta-Morphic, which is set to be the next NFT Blue Chip project.
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As a world-renowned contemporary artist, Huang Yuxing set a personal auction record of HK$64.83 million at the 2021 Christie’s Hong Kong Autumn Auction, and is a recognized leader in contemporary art.
Meta-morphic: An artistic expression derived from a philosophy of nature
Huang Yuxing’s dizzying art market performance shows his enormous popularity in the traditional art world. In 2021, with a turnover of over 100 million Chinese renminbi, Huang Yuxing was among the top three contemporary artists in the Chinese art market that year. At Christie’s Hong Kong Autumn 2021 auction, Huang Yuxing’s work “Seven Treasure Pines” set a personal auction record of HK$64.83 million. Over the past decade, Huang Yuxing’s solo exhibitions have been held all over the world, and in collaboration with Beyotime, Whitehead Gallery and König Galerie, all of which have been very successful.
Huang Yuxing’s deeply personal and visually striking artistic style captures the attention of top collectors and brands. Huang Yuxing is recognized for paintings that reflect and preserve the process of their creation. The work’s exceptional synthesis of styles has broad appeal, with images that call back to traditional Chinese landscape painting rendered in an ultra-modern neon palette bordering on abstraction. In 2012, Huang Yuxing created works including Trees, Trap and Melting Pot. Rich fluorescent color meets conical and elliptical geometric icons, forming a unique landscape and pushing Huang’s creation to the next stage.
The earliest rivers and bubbles were also created at this time. In this series of works, neon colors of different thickness overlap and cross, and the smooth curves form bubbles of different sizes, with strong and sensual colors. While Rivers and Bubbles is inspired by nature, Treasure is inspired from within. The endless repetition of the oval shape, protean in form, creates a sense of surreal dynamism. These creative elements are important themes within Meta-Morphic.
Sold price: HK$64.83 million (photo provided to Pandaily)
The Meta-Morphic Collection will generate a total of 2,197 unique Gem NFTs centered around the Seven Treasures. The foundation of each gem originates from new works by Huang Yuxing, brought to life under the artistic direction of London design studio Hato and the manufacturing expertise of Plinth. Each of the 2,197 treasures will be sold as mystery boxes. To purchase one of the treasures, please join the access list.
The seven treasure types are coral, agate, pearl, gold, silver, shell and turquoise. Each gemstone serves as a symbol of happiness, an embodiment of human wisdom and a deep philosophical connotation of nature.
Gemstones, composed of minerals, have evolved over tens of thousands of years. The evolution of the universe is marked in the minerals. Minerals also form the richness of the paint itself. Gemstones are records of time, history and transformation, and each one is associated with specific powers and symbolic meaning.
Through the Meta-Morphic Collection, Huang Yuxing hopes to lead people to understand the mysteries of the changing universe and the beauty of natural philosophy, and to bestow the blessings contained in the Seven Treasures.
Meta-Morphic: The perfect fusion of crypto and art
Huang Yuxing has established a strong partnership with LiveArt, a leading digital art platform.
LiveArt is a premium NFT platform that connects the art world with the Web3. With unique technology built by art industry leaders, LiveArt brings creators, collaborators and collectors into the metaverse. Artists can stamp their works in the Creator Hub with powerful rights management and unbreakable royalties for resale. Collectors can access a curated selection of only the best artworks on the LiveArt Marketplace. White Label Suite enables galleries and museums to launch and manage their own NFT marketplaces, or work with LiveArt Studio and our partners to curate and market drops. In addition, the Developer Lab enables the most advanced coders to work with our innovative technology.
The founders of LiveArt joined forces after holding core positions in the world’s best auction houses – Sotheby’s and Christie’s. Decades of industry experience make LiveArt perfectly placed to offer a top-curated digital art platform.
Meta-Morphic showcases Huang Yuxing’s journey into Web3. Through 3D design and algorithmic programming, each NFT presents a gem held in a multidimensional space, along with varying properties.
LiveArt has cultivated a community of over 300,000 members in the global art market. As an important bridge between Web2 and Web3 art, LiveArt has carved out a collection of top Web3 projects.
The LiveArtX Global 100 event saw more than 100 artists from more than 50 countries around the world create top quality artwork, while more than 20,000 Golden Pass NFTs were issued for users to participate and vote on the chain.
LiveArt offers tailored technical services, as well as the collaboration with Everest Ventures Group (early investors in Dapper Labs, Immutable X, Sandbox) to achieve cutting-edge technical development.
Meta-Morphic launches on September 23, and the approval list can be accessed here.
Meta-morphic: rules and value analysis
The Meta-Morphic NFT collection will be minted on Ethereum, and a total of 2,197 gemstone NFTs of seven types will be generated: Coral, Agate, Pearl, Gold, Silver, Seashell, and Turquoise.
Each type of NFT has different characteristics:
- Chemicals: determined by the composition of the gemstone’s elements.
- Color: different colors for different types of gemstone NFT.
- Shape: round, oval, square, irregular, etc.
- Background: water, eddies, mountains, tree trunks, etc.
- Blessing: each type of gem contains a good blessing, either peace and happiness or longevity.
Among the 2,197 NFTs:
- 2000 NFTs will be offered for sale as mystery blind boxes.
- 100 NFTs will be included in the project fund.
- 97 NFTs will be distributed to community members through a pre-launch marketing campaign, while the rules and roster will be announced on official social media.
Each mystery blind box will contain a gem NFT. Lucky collectors will also own a benefit blind box for an artist-derived surprise reward! Additionally, 2,000 Mystery Blind Boxes will be brought to the community in two phases:
- Pre-sale phase: 800 mystery blind boxes will be distributed in this phase. Early Participating Community Members, LiveArt Membership NFT Holders, LiveArt Global 100 Event Winning Artists and Exclusive Partners can apply to participate in the Presale and Mint for 1.2 ETH. The official mint goes live on September 23.
- Public sale phase: 1,200 mystery blind boxes will be distributed in this phase. Collectors can get an approval list and participate in the public sale for 1.5 ETH by completing the tasks set by the official. Specific details can be found on LiveArt’s official Twitter account.
It is worth mentioning that Meta-Morphic holders can enjoy various rights and benefitsincluding, but not limited to, the ability to participate in future chapters of Meta-Morphic and eligibility for other tools such as a LiveArt airdrop.
Conclusion
As the release of “Meta-Morphic” approaches, the permission list and Mint-related activities led by LiveArt will be held consecutively. Through AMAs, interactions, and our Medium blog, users can gain in-depth insights into the NFT series, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, and more future development plans.
