On June 18th, Justin Sun, the founder of TRON, bought the "Packaging Painting" created by KAWS in 2001 at the price of 2.5 million yuan at the first "CONTEMPORARY CURATED: ASIA" art exhibition jointly organized by Jay Chou and Sotheby's One of the series "Untitled (KIMPSONS)".

This art curation is the first cross-border cooperation between Sotheby's and Chinese pop music king Jay Chou. As the curator of the first "CONTEMPORARY CURATED: ASIA", Jay Chou is not only internationally renowned in the entertainment industry, but also a passionate As an art collector, he occupies a stable seat in the Asian and international art circles. During the auction, Jay Chou will also share his unique insights on the selected items of the evening auction with the audience.

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"Untitled (KIMPSONS)", one of the "packaging paintings" series created by KAWS in 2001

This lot is part of a series of KAWS first works on canvas and packaged in the plastic shells used by toy manufacturers. The work was shown in KAWS's first solo exhibition in Tokyo, together with other first acrylic works to form " The "Packaging Painting" series is an early example of KAWS's rebellious intelligence and vision. and contemporary cultures and subcultures. It is worth noting that "THE KAWS ALBUM", which includes all KIMPSONS characters, was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong for HK$115.9 million in April 2019.

In the past six months, Justin Sun, the leader of the blockchain and the founder of TRON, has been actively paying attention to the blockchain and artistic innovation. "Self-Portrait", "Ocean's Front" by encrypted artist Beeple, etc., with a total value of nearly 200 million yuan, and most of them were donated to the APENFT Foundation, which focuses on NFT and blockchainization of artworks, to support NFT innovation.

At the same time, as one of the world's three major public chains, TRON is also actively deploying NFT underlying technology innovation. In March this year, it launched the first NFT standard TRC-721, and optimized the world's largest distributed storage system BTFS. The NFTization and blockchainization of works provide a comprehensive and efficient infrastructure.