Ultimately, all galleries will make their digital dupe in the metaverse, according to Dmitry Ozerkov, the head of the contemporary art department at the State Hermitage Museum.
Ozerkov is presently developing the “ Celestial Hermitage”, a digital interpretation of the iconic Russian gallery, which will be flaunting nonfungible (NFT) art.
“We’re all moving into the digital period and our digital twin will be following us everyplace”, Ozerkov told Cointelegraph in an exclusive interview.
The State Hermitage in Saint Peterburg, Russia, is the largest gallery in the world by gallery space with around 3 million workshop of art.
In September 2021, the gallery took its first way in the NFT world by dealing five digital replications of its most notorious masterpieces in the form of NFTs raising nearly$.
In November, the Hermitage launched its first entirely digital exhibition, named‘The Ethereal Aether,” where 38 NFTs are showcased within a digital reconstruction of the gallery.
Unlike the physical Hermitage, where callers can only look at the workshop on display, the virtual exhibition allows callers to interact with the NFTs on display.
“You can pass through these doors without touching anything, while in the virtual world, you can do anything you can play with artworks, you can make them interactive, you can add data to it”, explained Ozerkov.
The exhibition can be visited online for free until December 10th.
As refocused out by Ozerkov, the interest of the Hermitage in NFTs transcend request dynamics and seeks to probe the cultural value that NFT can bring into the contemporary art world.
“ My idea was to take a selection of living workshop out of the request and to put them into the gallery and to have a look what remains in them as art? Is there any art there or we like, what we value in them is only plutocrat?”.
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