Life will grow around the things
you decide to keep.
A sculpture about the invisible connections in the art world.
Currently in exhibition at the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest and as NFTs on Foundation.
The project is a collaboration between artist Edson Pavoni and pioneer Network Scientist Albert-Laszlo Barabasi whose work has led to many breakthroughs, including the discovery of scale-free networks in 1999, which continues to make him one of the most cited scientists today.
Photographs of the Invisible Blue installation at the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest by Bálint Jaska.
"By spending time with Laszlo I learned a simple and profound lesson: If you want to understand something, it's better to study the connection around that thing, than the thing itself."
Invisible Blue was born at the intersection of art and science. It lights the connections between the top 100 living artists in Hungary - Laszlo's home country.
It took us more than six months of scientific and technological research and 200 hundred hours to build the sculpture at the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest.
"Walking around this 24-meter tall sculpture is a way to experience with your body how connections are our real structure."
Invisible Blue has a limited collection of 101 artworks that you can own as NFTs.
Edition 1 of 1 Hungarian Art Network A NFT by Edson Pavoni and the BarabásiLab Edition 1 of 1 Node 10: A NFT by Edson Pavoni and the BarabásiLab
Collectors have the option of receiving the physical node of the sculpture, framed, signed, and shipped anywhere in the world.
It's a new way to connect with our work and foster our continuous research on Art and Network Science. All proceeds will be reinvested on our upcoming art installations and the mapping of new art networks by the BarabásiLab.
Csorgo Attila
We spent about six months trying to map all the exhibitions that happen in the last 30 years in Hungary. We use that data to reconstruct the career of 2.300 Hungarian artists and find the hidden connections between them.
We show these hidden connections by co-exhibition frequency. The more often two artists co-exhibit the more the spirit of their work is alike, at least in the eyes of the community.
Invisible Blue has the top hundred artists that are still alive and producing work within Hungary. We choose to focus only on active artists as a gesture towards the community.
A collection by Edson Pavoni and Albert-László Barabási
Research and network design by the BarabásiLab Albert-László Barabási, Csaba Both, Alice Grishchenko
Art production and installation by Spaces&Creatures Guilherme Bullejos, Gabriela Veiga, Edson Pavoni
Commissioned by Ludwig Museum Budapest Borbála Kálmán, Béla Bodor, István Bódi
Curatorship by József Készman
Prototyping space: FabLab Budapest
3d Printing: Eduardo Dias
Video: Kristóf Kovács
Special thanks to Antônio Curti, Felipe Sztutman, Eduardo Dias, Mentor Neto, Marcos Felipe, Mungunzá, David Pap, Barbara Soalheiro, Marcello Dantas and to the volunteers Gábor Hortobágyi, Garry Roszoly, Kata Hegyes, Melinda Sipos, Sándor Fovenyi
NFT Team
Binaural sound design in 432Hz by Gabriel Martini
3D Modeling by Guilherme Bullejos
Light and 3D Animation by Thais Mancini
Especial thanks to Paulo Perez