Lamborghini has revealed the auction details of its first ever NFT.
The firm has partnered with NFT Pro and RM Sotheby’s which will receive bids on the five pairs of physical and digital artworks by the renowned Artist Fabian Oefner between 1 February 2022, the first day of the new lunar year, and 4 February 2022.
Up to 1,500 individual components of the car were captured in order to produce the NFT The auction for the first of the five NFTs will take place on Lamborghini's dedicated auction site here and starts at start at 11:00pm Singapore time, while each of the other auctions will start and end 15 minutes later then their preceding one. Every auction will last for 75 hours and 50 minutes, the exact time it took Apollo 11 to leave Earth and enter the moon's orbit - not the only reference to human space exploration.
The physical artwork, the Space Key, contains carbon fibre pieces that Lamborghini sent to the International Space Station back in 2020, as a part of a joint research project. Engraved with a unique QR code, these carbon fibre parts link the digital element, are a series of five photographs of a Lamborghini Ultimae, lifting off toward the stars. The images depict five separate moments within seconds from each other as the car rises above the earth. Its parts, the engine, the transmission, the suspension and hundreds of nuts and bolts are shooting away from the chassis like the exhaust flame of a rocket.
What may look like a computer-generated image is in fact entirely created from elements of the real world: The artist captured more than 1,500 individual parts of a real car. The photograph of the earth's curvature was made by sending a weather balloon equipped with a camera to the edge of the stratosphere. The artist then carefully assembled all of these images into an artificial moment in time. Each of the five NFTs has more than 600 million pixels. As one starts to zoom in, hidden details of these hyperrealistic photographs are revealed. The resolution is so enormous, that you can read tiny markings on the firing order of the V12 engine or marvel at the different milling patterns on the transmission cog wheels.
The firm has partnered with NFT Pro and RM Sotheby’s which will receive bids on the five pairs of physical and digital artworks by the renowned Artist Fabian Oefner between 1 February 2022, the first day of the new lunar year, and 4 February 2022.
The physical artwork, the Space Key, contains carbon fibre pieces that Lamborghini sent to the International Space Station back in 2020, as a part of a joint research project. Engraved with a unique QR code, these carbon fibre parts link the digital element, are a series of five photographs of a Lamborghini Ultimae, lifting off toward the stars. The images depict five separate moments within seconds from each other as the car rises above the earth. Its parts, the engine, the transmission, the suspension and hundreds of nuts and bolts are shooting away from the chassis like the exhaust flame of a rocket.
What may look like a computer-generated image is in fact entirely created from elements of the real world: The artist captured more than 1,500 individual parts of a real car. The photograph of the earth's curvature was made by sending a weather balloon equipped with a camera to the edge of the stratosphere. The artist then carefully assembled all of these images into an artificial moment in time. Each of the five NFTs has more than 600 million pixels. As one starts to zoom in, hidden details of these hyperrealistic photographs are revealed. The resolution is so enormous, that you can read tiny markings on the firing order of the V12 engine or marvel at the different milling patterns on the transmission cog wheels.
