RedBanana NFT is excited about this collaboration and to launch the first collectible rare limited edition by this gifted artist.

Marco Melgrati and RedBanana NFT have signed a partnership agreement about this specific work. Once purchased the IPFS CID is unlocked and you have access to a copy of the agreement and the high resolution 33 MB file.

Marco Melgrati was born in Milan 1984 and graduated from the Santa Giulia School of Fine Arts in 2006. He began working as a freelance illustrator in 2008 and currently lives in Bali, Indonesia.

Marco Melgrati by Felix Herrmann In the history of mentality, the beginning of the 21st century can be characterized by a deeply felt unease about a lifestyle perceived as “modern,” which is most evident in intensive and hyper-accelerated media use. Many people wonder how, in this context, a reflected and differentiated addressing of social problems is possible at all, when the rhythm established by the digital media dictates a permanent change in the focus of attention. By what means is it at all possible to engage with problems and undesirable developments when the next slice of reality is already pressing upwards on the timeline with emotional urgency?

The illustrations of Italian artist and digital nomad Marco Melgrati intelligently stage precisely this sense of social dissolution and media change. What is remarkable about his painted dystopias is their apparent harmlessness and unambiguity. The pictorial language is a sad, dreamlike symbolism that presents and conveys questions and complex problems in a magnificently pointed – and often humorous – way. His figures and subjects are as simple as they are enigmatic. The viewer is invited to look behind the appearance of their facade and to compare the allegorical world references with their own experiences.

Marco Melgrati was born in Milan in 1984 and graduated from the Santa Giulia School of Fine Arts in 2006. He began working as a freelance illustrator in 2008 and currently lives in Bali, Indonesia. Melgrati-NFT’s exclusive first editions are works specially selected by the artist that explore the relationship between appearance and truth as well as perspective and self-reference in an emblematic and humorous way. Redbana NFT is excited to launch the first two illustrations by this gifted artist and present them where they have their greatest impact, in the digital space of the blockchain.