Nft, the covers of La Lettura designed by Serafini and Hernandez on the Corriere Art- Corriere.it platform

Continue the path of Corriere della Sera in the world of digital art. Two new RCS-branded NFTs have been put up for sale on the Corriere Art Collection platform. Non-fungible tokens (certificates attesting the ownership and authenticity of an asset written on the blockchain) are the author’s covers of the cultural magazine Reading signed by the artists Luca Serafini and Diango Hernandez.

Who Luca Serafini

A versatile intellectual born in Rome in 1949, during his career he juggled the most diverse expressive languages. After painting, sculpture, ceramics, scenography and design, here he is mintare (minting, ed) on the shared and immutable register of Algorand the ideal continuation of the Codex Seraphinianus, a surrealist encyclopaedia whose debut dates back to 1981. Forty-two years later it offers readers of the Courier a product containing the essential traits of his style: meticulous drawing, the invented alphabet and classicist echoes.

Who Diango Hernandez

Of Cuban origin, he instead proposes a woman’s face imagined reflected in the water, a recurring theme in his latest works. The natural element symbolizes the purity with which the artist investigates the present, but also the means that makes the representation of reality immaterial and fluid (and therefore unstable), experienced with insecurity by the individual. The idea of ​​her Hernandez draws her from her childhood memories and from the Caribbean sea that was their frame, but only after the epiphanic recollection of looking at the wavy glass of a door of her house in Düsseldorf, in Germany. Each cover is part of a large editorial project which, through the eyes of almost 600 artists, tells exactly what is defined as the Zeitgeist, or the spirit of our time – says Gianluigi Colin, cover editor of Reading–. The initiative allows readers to create a collection of undoubted value for the quality of the names of the authors and for the nature of the same. A series of covers and works, in a limited edition, which brings everyone closer to the most important creations of today’s Italian and international artists. Thus realizing that ideal of sharing and freedom that the Corriere della Sera always embodies.