{"id":23454,"date":"2022-07-07T12:53:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T16:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=23454"},"modified":"2022-07-07T12:53:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T16:53:32","slug":"space-art-roundup-july-7-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=23454","title":{"rendered":"Space art roundup – July.7.2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a collection of news, announcements, videos, and other resources that touch on the mingling of art and space:<\/p>\n

=== Art in space<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sacha Jafri artwork,”We Rise Together \u2013 with the Light of the Moon<\/strong>“. To withstand the temperature extremes on the lunar surface, the design was etched onto a gold sheet mounted on an aluminum plate. Credits: Selenian<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

** Sacha Jafri<\/a>‘s artwork going to the Moon<\/strong>. The First Artwork To Be Sent to the Moon Will Be a Piece by Dubai-Based Artist Sacha Jafri – Vogue<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The artwork will be placed on the surface of the moon later this year by Spacebit<\/a>, a company developing technology for space exploration, and Astrobotic Technology Inc., a company providing end-to-end delivery services for payloads to the moon. The humanitarian aspect of the mission has been put together by Selenian, a pioneering UAE company that specializes in the curation of art in space. This mission is also the first-ever commercial lunar mission under the NASA CLPS, and the landing site of Jafri\u2019s artwork will be marked as a world heritage landmark.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Astrobotic<\/a> mission will launch on ULA’s first Vulcan rocket, which should lift off by the end of 2022 or the first quarter of 2023. The Peregrine Lander<\/a> will carry a couple of dozen scientific and commercial payloads<\/a> to the Lacus Mortis<\/a><\/u> crater on northeast area of near side of the Moon.<\/p>\n

The UAE company Selenian<\/a> is in charge of the project: First Artwork on the Moon – Selenian – Feb.14.2022<\/a><\/p>\n

The first official Artwork entitled ‘We Rise Together \u2013 with the Light of the Moon’, created by contemporary British Artist Sacha Jafri, will be placed on the Moon with the help of Selenian, a pioneering company that specialises in the curation of art in space, and Astrobotic, a commercial space company, in association with NASA under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative known as NASA CLPS. The landing site will then become a world heritage landmark preserved forever. <\/em><\/p>\n

The Artwork will be revealed to the world in a press conference next week. Jafri has used an aerospace grade aluminium gold plate as his canvas in order for the Artwork to be fully resilient to the lunar conditions and to last eternally on the Moon. <\/em><\/p>\n

Jafri’s original work will be placed on the surface of the Moon triggering the release of a five-series NFT Charitable Collection. The original work will rest in the solitude of the Moon, emanating energy back to Earth. Five NFTs will launch to commemorate each stage of the mission \u2013 from the rocket launch entering the stratosphere, the Earth circumnavigation, the Moon sling-shot, the Moon landing and the legacy of the eternal artwork on the Moon. <\/em><\/p>\n

In addition, 88 unique Hearts that fly to the Moon as part of the painting, will be released to the world as the Jafri ‘Moonheart NFTs’.<\/em><\/p>\n

The art work shown above was revealed in February 2022<\/a>:<\/p>\n

More at Artist Sacha Jafri turns the Moon into an art gallery with his work – GulfToday – Feb.26.2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n

**Jeff Koons<\/strong><\/a> is sending sculptures to the Moon as well<\/strong>. Koons, a well-known American pop artist, is a customer of Intuitive Machines<\/a>, whose IM-1 mission<\/a> is currently scheduled to liftoff by the end of 2022 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The goal is to set the Nova-C lander safely onto Oceanus Procellarum<\/a>. The lander will hold several NASA sponsored scientific instruments as well as some commercial payloads including the sculptures from Koons. Artist Jeff Koons aims to send sculptures to the Moon on commercial lunar lander \u2013 MSN \u2013 Mar.29.2022<\/a><\/p>\n

Koons is best known for his popular sculptures of balloon animals created out of stainless steel. Now, some of his new sculptures will join the payloads on the outside of Nova-C. Specifically, the Koons sculptures will be encased in a transparent, thermally-coated cube that measures 6 inches on all sides, according to Intuitive Machines. The tiny sculptures will supposedly be the first \u201cauthorized\u201d works of art to reach the lunar surface, according to Pace Gallery, which represents Koons \u2014 though that title will only work if Intuitive Machines can get to the Moon relatively soon. <\/em><\/p>\n

Koons calls the project Moon Phases<\/a>. See the original announcement at Jeff Koons Unveils “Moon Phases” NFT Project – Pace Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Former NASA Astronaut and current Intuitive Machines Vice President, Jack Fischer says, \u201cthe Intuitive Machines team is passionate about this historic project. Koons\u2019s sculptures, documented by the NFTs and housed in a transparent, thermally coated, sustainably built enclosed art cube, will be the first authorized artworks to be placed on the surface of the Moon, where they will remain in perpetuity.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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