Paper and Stele, The ANLAGE, wava.ar 2019-2022

Two Digital Sculptures as part of the show "The ANLAGE".

Inverted surface flipped inside out. A crumpled piece of paper holding a text by Czech philosopher Vilém Flusser – “Farewell to reality”. The two sculptures of Florian Adolph are made of specific and contrasting materiality: the sleek, reflective surface of Stele, and the scanned, reproduced edginess of Papier.

In the middle of the Gallus-Anlage, amongst the many physical outdoor artworks of the city of Frankfurt, the two sculptures offer a new interpretation of public art. A virtual monument which is at the same time grounded and fleeting, mundane and extravagant.

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MISA.ART POP-UP, misa.art, Berlin 2022

3 virtual sculptures, (AR-NFT-Drop) during Gallery Weekend Berlin 2022

"A shell, a branch, a ring. Or are they? I ask myself and wonder how they feel when touched. Soft like styrofoam or cold like porcelain. Do they float or sink, break or bounce? Like Ludwig Wittgenstein's duck-rabbit, I can only imagine one possibility at a time. My mind is inevitably stuck in a spacio-temporal physical prison, not free to roam the hybrid worlds of conflicting possibilities like those inhabited by Florian Adolph’s digital sculptures. But are they truly free? In the end, they also need a surface on which to manifest themselves. They are but instructions that manifest themselves whenever summoned to the surface of our screens—a line of code, and nothing more.

Like many of the works in the artist’s oeuvre, these sculptures exist in hard to define spaces between the virtual and the physical, between the hand made and the mechanical. They are digital renderings, of course, yet they feel handmade. And they are, in a way. A hand is still controlling a device that navigates between code-lines and display-pixels. And it’s a painter’s hand, no doubt. I look at them idly spin on their axis, displaying themselves like the objects they are. I imagine they were found in a cave, a deep underground cave in a —verse, one of the sprawling —verses, maybe even ours. Fantastic post-archaeological treasures that shine in their unspectacularly. A shell, a branch, a ring. Merely this, and nothing more.

For me, they float. They get carried away by the streams like coconuts from island to island. You can find them on the beach amongst the tidewrack. Perhaps they grow roots when they reach the sands, slowly getting bleached by the scorching sun. Or perhaps they stay as they are, like pyroplastic, defiant of all the eroding powers around them. I pick up the shell and put it up against my ear. I hear the sound. Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh. Tis the wind, and nothing more."

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Line and Surface, 1822-Forum, Frankfurt am Main 2019

"Florian Adolph approaches the digital from the familiar via a graphic motivic language and at the same time opens up new base stations in the digital, in the middle of the actually unknown. (...) His works are representational and at the same time they are not. They appear to be non-concrete surfaces and, at the same time, to have emerged from a historical context. They seem enigmatically empty and yet are concentrates of intensive examination. (...) Such openness proves to be consistent with Florian Adolph even when it comes to the artistic original: 'The question is probably not which stage of several is the original, but whether there is still an original at all'."

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Gateway to the Metaverse, House of Wisdom, Sharjah, UAE 2022

Sharjah: The House of Wisdom, an iconic futuristic and cultural hub that is under Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq), is hosting the first non-fungible tokens (NFT) art exhibition in Sharjah to bridge the gap between traditional and digital art worlds and introduce visitors and the art community to the new wave of creativity that is transforming the art landscape worldwide.

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Printing Blocks, Art Cologne, for provinz.digital by Provinz Editionen 2021

The owners of these physical prints will receive the respective, corresponding NFTs as a digital original via provinz.digital; we will also publish ten unique NFT “PrintingBlocks” on the Ethereum and WAX blockchains. Each “PrintingBlock” will automatically generate one new unique digital print per month for a year from January 1st, 2022.

The Print NFTs will be unique, based on the style of their Printing Block.

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Entangled Broadcast, Exhibition and Talk at EULENGASSE Frankfurt am Main and on Cryptovoxels 2021

Florian Adolph turns EULENGASSE into a virtual studio and digital broadcasting station. For this purpose he organizes an exhibition and a broadcast. (...) Accompanying this, a broadcast will be sent from the exhibition space, in the context of which talks will take place with internationally connected guests from the fields of Blockchain and Crypto-Art.

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