Dabeiyuzhou: The Chinese Digital Artist featured in Natively Digital 1.2, the first sale in Sotheby’s Metaverse

“Sotheby’s Metaverse” will hold its first sale from Oct.18 to Oct. 26 with a collection called “Natively Digital 1.2: The Collectors.” Featuring 53 works from 19 NFT collectors, including many famous NFTs by XCOPY, Pak, CryptoPunks, Bored Ape Yacht Club, ArtBlocks, etc.

“A Poetic Beach” from Text Gene Project created by Dabeiyuzhou and collected by Qinwen Wang is also in this auction. It’s the first time that Chinese digital artists participate in Sotheby’s auction.

“A Poetic Beach”

Consciousness breeds new thinking/Melancholy beyond emotional calculation is anything but a dream/As loneliness and desolation reverberates throughout the world/in the graveyard of deconstruction/A sheer coldness unbearable by any soul emerges/The trace of a flaming silhouette/Is found on the tombstones of future/A glamorizing paradise in the east/Is the home of a stretch of beach praised in many poems/Which bear witness to the history of abstract thinking.

In Dabeiyuzhou’s earlier drop on MetaOpus, three new artworks from Text Gene Project. It starts with 0.001ETH min bid and ended with the highest bid of 27.5eth in the total 74.5eth sales.

Dabeiyuzhou is one of high-profile digital artists in Asia, the person who is at the top of. Asian Meta-Digital Art Ranking, BCA Network’s represented artist. He is popular among the young generation because of his fashion and cyberpunk style of artworks. Known as an “oriental cyborg”, he has a strong fan base in China.

He started to create the “Text Gene Project” series in 2019. As the originator of text NFT, the “Text Gene Project” is not limited to text, but is the combination of text, image and human voice interpretation. Known as an extremely exquisite and transcendent virtual world, this series is a combination of eastern religious culture and cyberpunk. The importance of this series is, it explores endless possibilities of human-computer collaboration on digital art and metaverse in the future.