Animoca Brands Corporation Ltd's original digital collectibles and NFT marketplace Quidd now features Stencil Tongue, a new art series collaboration with Hong Kong street artist Szabotage.
This collection continues Szabotage’s creative journey into the metaverse and gives users the option to mint the collectibles as NFTs.
Signature stencil imagery
Szabotage, the first Hong Kong street artist to work in the NFT format, takes a keen interest in words and verbal language, yet tells stories through his signature stencil imagery.
Through his symbolic visual poetry, he expresses double meanings, cult language, plays on words, Cockney rhyming slang, popular sayings and polar opposites, and offers a new perspective on the status quo.
The Stencil Tongue collection marks the first time Szabotage, whose NFTs have sold for the equivalent of more than US$10,000 each, will offer digital art accessible to anyone, whether crypto native or not, through Quidd’s marketplace and its ability to let users buy items off-chain and later seamlessly mint them on-chain.
Exclusive collection
The first two sets in the Stencil Tongue collection invite collectors to unlock randomised combinations of stencils to create their own stories through the artist’s individual stencils, with the order and contents of the draw changing the interpretation and meaning each time.
The limited, serialised prints from the Stencil Tongue collection digitally deliver Szabotage’s own stylised and unique stencil language. The collection will appear exclusively on the Quidd app on July 27.
About Quidd
Quidd, a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, is the original digital collectibles and NFT marketplace.
Since 2016, Quidd has worked with the world’s most prominent brands including Disney, HBO, Funko and more than 300 others, bringing fan-first collecting to digital and blockchain platforms.
About Szabotage
Szabotage’s obsession with the spray has cultivated his street, studio and digital practices. He is best recognised by his signature Koi fish, an iconic symbol of strength, adversity and good fortune that features frequently throughout his work.
He has mastered a visual language through the development of layered stencils, which have become his distinctive style.
Commissioned clients include Louis Vuitton, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Deutsche Bank, Evisu, Prada and The Ritz Carlton.