Artist Sacha Jafri plans to place the ‘first official artwork on the moon’

Image: ‘We Rise Together – with the Light of the Moon’ by Sacha Jafri, 2022. Image courtesy of the artist and Selenium. Article by Benjamin Sutton. The Art Newspaper – February 23, 2022.

The aerospace-grade aluminium plate will be sent to space later this year, but earthbound collectors can partake of the journey thanks to line of exclusive NFTs

Last year, the artist Sacha Jafri made headlines with what was described as the world’s biggest painting, the astronomically large canvas The Journey of Humanity, which sold at a charity auction for $62m. For his next feat of hyperbolic artistic achievement, Jafri is trying his hand at actual astronomy. […]

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