léo caillard duplicates his existing warped classical marble sculptures as NFT drops

Replicating léo caillard’s classical marble sculptures

Leo Caillard distorts marble sculptures like an old tube TV flickering to death as it scrambles for nearby signals. He has already dressed up classical figures with hippie clothes, and now, the French artist returns with his distorted sculptures. This time, he reproduces their digital twins and uploads their copies as NFTs. Melding the past and present comes to the forefront as viewers are afforded scenic landscapes behind Caillard’s stretched and elongated marble sculptures.

The recent NFT drop of Caillard presents a selection of three of his real-life works, placed in natural environments such as vestiges from a different space-time. NFT cults who prefer to own digitized versions of Caillard’s marble works, which exist in real life, have the chance to bid and keep their copies, saving the juxtaposition between antiquity in style and the use of modern technology in contemporary creative mediums. Along with the NFTs, Caillard is in the process of culminating his mixed-media sculptures and works into a book.

Wave Stone, 2017 | Materials: Marble – Bronze – Resin | Size: 30x20x18 in (75x50x45cm) | Edition: 3+1 A.P.

image courtesy of Leo Caillard, header image courtesy of the artist and Monde Singulier

Léo Caillard sculpts one-off marble works

Léo Caillard plays with the concepts of time. He brings back mementos of the bygone heydays and turns them into tangible, and now digital, marble works with modern relevance. He thinks of a prompting that tugs viewers to look back and reflect on the past, that without the storylines that took place then, the present would not evolve in the way it is today.

Pioneer in digital art and NFT, Caillard belongs to a new generation of artists who bridge reality with virtuality. For Quantum, the mixed-media artist swing between ancient past and futurism in form, the waves that disturb the figurative and physical shapes of his oeuvre. He attempts to revert the original vibration of quantum matter, always pinning what occurs between reality and virtuality.

This series of sculptures is one of the artist’s most known body of work. His sculptures stand without a replica as Caillard only makes them once, deviating from having commercialized copies. For the first time, his works are associated with their digital twins through NFT, and marketplace Monde Singulier is hosting the live drop of Caillard’s NFTs on its website.

Wave Stone, 2017 | Materials: Marble – Bronze – Resin | Size: 30x20x18 in (75x50x45cm) | Edition: 3+1 A.P.