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		<title>USURPA’s cutting-edge digital gallery is heading to the Mother City</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2023 15:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hot on the heels of its exciting Johannesburg launch, the very first Digital Fine Art gallery in South Africa USURPA is bringing its pioneering technology to the Mother City at Decorex Cape Town 2023. USURPA joins a 200-strong lineup of leading brands showcasing the latest trends in design, decor and art at the Cape Town International Convention Centre in the heart of Cape Town between 22 and 25 June 2023. This gives Capetonians the chance to interact with digital art presented by this progressive gallery which sits at the forefront of culture in South Africa and on the continent. USURPA will mount a stand-alone display on the Decorex Cape Town show floor featuring an array of dynamic works by the gallery’s South African artists. These include Seth Pimentel, Baba Tjeko, Naledi Modupi, Sinalo Ngcaba, Mncedi Madolo, Nene Mahlangu, Mark Draws, vonMash, Oliver Pohorille, Terence Maluleke, Samurai Farai and Navel Seakamela. With the sole mission of empowering established and up-and-coming African artists, the USURPA team has created a platform that introduces digital art as a modern form of fine-art investment in the form of NFTs, or non-fungible tokens &#8211; digital versions of artworks that are unique or irreplaceable. Just as you could own a one-of-a-kind physical artwork [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new medium of fine art arrives at USURPA Gallery in Johannesburg</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2023 06:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the first fine-art physical NFT gallery in South Africa, USURPA lives up to its namesake — ‘usurp’ means to take a position of power or importance by force — by staking its claim as the bold new name in African art. &#160; On Thursday 4 May 2023, the USURPA Gallery in Riviera, Johannesburg, opened The New Medium group exhibition, a unique intersection of technology and fine art featuring twelve South African artists – Seth Pimentel, Baba Tjeko, Naledi Modupi, Sinalo Ngcaba, Mncedi Madolo, Nene Mahlangu, Mark Draws, vonMash, Oliver Pohorille, Terence Maluleke, Samurai Farai and Navel Seakamela. &#160; &#160; NFTs (non-fungible tokens, or digital assets based on blockchain technology) may not be what you associate with fine art, and yet, at its core, an NFT is just a digital certificate of ownership of art — just as you could own a one-of-a-kind physical painting such as the ‘Mona Lisa’, therefore an NFT is the ownership of a piece of digital fine art. The provenance of each work can be captured on the blockchain, and secured through individual smart codes. &#160; USURPA has taken the somewhat intimidating concept of digital art from the constraints of computer or phone screens into a [...]]]></description>
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