About the Work
Mona Lisa Sold is the first in a series of NFTs in Jennifer Rubell’s Clickbait series, which uses flagrantly fake news as a medium. Mona Lisa Sold looks like a still from news coverage of Beyoncé and Jay-Z purchasing the Mona Lisa, a fake fact illustrated by a (real) still of the two artists in front of the iconic Leonardo da Vinci portrait in the video for their song, Apeshit. The medium of the NFT is hijacked so that any reproduction of it becomes, in itself, a further dissemination of the fake news contained in it.
Mona Lisa Sold continues Rubell’s ongoing exploration of the relationship between iconic female imagery and power. In performances such as Ivanka Vacuuming and Consent -- in which Rubell herself was struck in the face with cream pies 192 times over the course of the exhibition -- and in sculptural works like Lysa II -- a busty mannequin retooled to crack walnuts between her legs -- Rubell continuously questions the viewer’s role in transactions of power. “My work is all funny,” Rubell says, “People engage with it because they can’t resist. And then suddenly they realize they’re complicit.”
This NFT carries a Verisart Certificate of Authenticity, a blockchain certificate providing proof of the artist's verified identity and additional context about the work.
The closing time noted at the top of the auction page indicates when the first lot will begin to close. The countdown timer on the artwork pages will display the end time for the lot. Each lot closes in 2-minute increments and will be extended by 15 minutes if a bid is placed within the 15 minutes before the lot’s scheduled closing time.
Kindly note that the entered amount represents your current Bid amount. All bids placed on Artsy are final and non-retractable.
Gas fees can vary depending on network demand and are non-refundable even if you are outbid, for more information see our FAQ.
THE BID PRICE IS INCLUSIVE OF SALES TAX. IF YOU ARE THE WINNING BIDDER AND SALES TAX DOES NOT APPLY TO YOUR PURCHASE, YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ENTIRE BID PRICE AND WILL NOT BE ENTITLED TO A REFUND OF SALES TAX.
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- Jennifer Rubell
- American, b. 1970
Jennifer Rubell (b. 1970) is an American conceptual artist who works in a wide variety of participatory mediums ranging from interactive sculpture, painting, installation and video to food performance. Her pieces often prompt viewers to violate the boundaries associated with art-viewing by touching, inhabiting, consuming or destroying the object. This exploding of the traditional viewer-artwork relationship simultaneously scrambles all kinds of seemingly fixed dualities: passivity-control; creation-consumption; permanence-ephemerality; participation-observation; safety-danger;exposure-privacy; feminism-femininity. Thousands of participants have experienced her performances and work in museums, galleries and public spaces around the world, and she continues to create new site-specific participatory work on a regular basis, inspired by everything from Ivanka Trump to the Utrecht Soccer Club.
Select performances and exhibitions include: Landscapes at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Switzerland; Old-Fashioned, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Creation, for Performa, the New York performance-art festival; Made in Texas and Nutcrackers, at the Dallas Contemporary; So Sorry, at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto; The de Pury Diptych at the Saatchi Gallery, London; Icons, at the Brooklyn Museum.
Rubell received a B.A. from Harvard University in Fine Arts.
She lives and works in New York City.
About the Work
Mona Lisa Sold is the first in a series of NFTs in Jennifer Rubell’s Clickbait series, which uses flagrantly fake news as a medium. Mona Lisa Sold looks like a still from news coverage of Beyoncé and Jay-Z purchasing the Mona Lisa, a fake fact illustrated by a (real) still of the two artists in front of the iconic Leonardo da Vinci portrait in the video for their song, Apeshit. The medium of the NFT is hijacked so that any reproduction of it becomes, in itself, a further dissemination of the fake news contained in it.
Mona Lisa Sold continues Rubell’s ongoing exploration of the relationship between iconic female imagery and power. In performances such as Ivanka Vacuuming and Consent -- in which Rubell herself was struck in the face with cream pies 192 times over the course of the exhibition -- and in sculptural works like Lysa II -- a busty mannequin retooled to crack walnuts between her legs -- Rubell continuously questions the viewer’s role in transactions of power. “My work is all funny,” Rubell says, “People engage with it because they can’t resist. And then suddenly they realize they’re complicit.”
This NFT carries a Verisart Certificate of Authenticity, a blockchain certificate providing proof of the artist's verified identity and additional context about the work.
The closing time noted at the top of the auction page indicates when the first lot will begin to close. The countdown timer on the artwork pages will display the end time for the lot. Each lot closes in 2-minute increments and will be extended by 15 minutes if a bid is placed within the 15 minutes before the lot’s scheduled closing time.
Kindly note that the entered amount represents your current Bid amount. All bids placed on Artsy are final and non-retractable.
Gas fees can vary depending on network demand and are non-refundable even if you are outbid, for more information see our FAQ.
THE BID PRICE IS INCLUSIVE OF SALES TAX. IF YOU ARE THE WINNING BIDDER AND SALES TAX DOES NOT APPLY TO YOUR PURCHASE, YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ENTIRE BID PRICE AND WILL NOT BE ENTITLED TO A REFUND OF SALES TAX.
0x44dcebb4374f7e01ba415c7be243f6c66636ea1c
233
Non-fungible token
- Jennifer Rubell
- American, b. 1970
Jennifer Rubell (b. 1970) is an American conceptual artist who works in a wide variety of participatory mediums ranging from interactive sculpture, painting, installation and video to food performance. Her pieces often prompt viewers to violate the boundaries associated with art-viewing by touching, inhabiting, consuming or destroying the object. This exploding of the traditional viewer-artwork relationship simultaneously scrambles all kinds of seemingly fixed dualities: passivity-control; creation-consumption; permanence-ephemerality; participation-observation; safety-danger;exposure-privacy; feminism-femininity. Thousands of participants have experienced her performances and work in museums, galleries and public spaces around the world, and she continues to create new site-specific participatory work on a regular basis, inspired by everything from Ivanka Trump to the Utrecht Soccer Club.
Select performances and exhibitions include: Landscapes at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Switzerland; Old-Fashioned, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Creation, for Performa, the New York performance-art festival; Made in Texas and Nutcrackers, at the Dallas Contemporary; So Sorry, at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto; The de Pury Diptych at the Saatchi Gallery, London; Icons, at the Brooklyn Museum.
Rubell received a B.A. from Harvard University in Fine Arts.
She lives and works in New York City.