The NFT artist who sold a trashcan image for US$252,000

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The NFT artist who sold a trashcan image for US$252,000

Marcel Duchamp scandalised the art world in 1917 by submitting a urinal as his entry to a prestigious competition. A century later, an American artist known as Robness sparked his own controversy by selling an NFT of a rubbish bin for US$252,000.

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"I can't even remember where the image came from, I think it was a Google image search," the 38-year-old Los Angeles native tells AFP.

NFTs are unique pieces of computer code stored on a longer chain of code known as a blockchain, with a link to an artwork or other item.

The image, called "64 gallon toter", depicts a large plastic trashcan with glitching effects, giving it a psychedelic appearance.

There is a lot of money to be made in the NFT art world - auctions and purchases from celebrities contributed to sales worth more than US$40 billion last year, according to analytics firm Chainalysis.

Like Duchamp's urinal, Robness' piece gained value as it gained notoriety - NFT marketplace SuperRare removed the image shortly after he created it.

"It was kind of like rage art, I was angry about some things," he says. "So I put that up, and it was removed. They thought I was taking Home Depot's picture and breaking copyright.

"They threatened me legally," he says with a laugh.

But then, out of the blue, the platform reinstated his work.

SuperRare told AFP in an email that "the community didn't consider it as art", but reinstated it after two years because "so much has evolved" in the discussions around what can legitimately be called art.