MAXIM OF PIONEERING ELECTRONIC ACT THE PRODIGY (AKA VISUAL ARTIST MM)
LEPIDOPTERROR COLLECTION AVAILABLE NOW ON CRYPTO.COM | NFT
IN COLLABORATION WITH SNOWCRASH WITH PORTION OF PROCEEDS TO GO TO
UK HOUSING ORGANIZATION shelter
WHAT: The LEPIDOPTERROR COLLECTION BY MAXIM AKA MM (DOUBLE M), a fine art NFT collection of beautiful butterflies mixed with skulls and wielding deadly weapons, will be released via Crypto.com/NFT in collaboration with innovative NFT platform Snowcrash this Wednesday, July 27. Maxim will donate a portion of his initial sales proceeds from this collection towards U.K. housing charity Shelter www.shelter.org.uk.
The LEPIDOPTERROR COLLECTION collection features 888 still images of four categories of butterflies, in varianting quantities. There are 50 Royal Butterflies, 50 Warrior Butterflies, and 50 Worker Butterflies. The remaining 738 butterflies are Citizens. They all belong to the eldest family of butterflies, the Lepidopterrors, and have their role to play in defending the magical Golden Pollen from the Clown Wasps. These butterflies were first conceptualized by Maxim in 2009 after he recalled a childhood memory of an advertisement that showed a young girl running through a cornfield, waving a net as she tried to catch an elegant butterfly. He thought to himself, “What would it be like if I armed that butterfly?” The butterfly is seen as a frail and gentle creature. He wanted to give it the ability and strength to defend itself.
WHO: Contemporary British artist MAXIM, also known as MM (Double M) is well known for his outstanding paintings, sculptures and ceramics that often uses a mixture of sinister and beautiful images. Maxim’s musical background in The Prodigy (the pioneering electronic music group that has smashed genre perceptions for more than two decades) has helped feed his wider art practice. It is witnessed in pieces that are always based in a surreal world, inspired by special effects creator Ray Harryhausen and artists H.R. Giger, MC Escher and Hieronymus Bosch.
WHY: In collaboration with Snowcrash and Crypto.com/NFT, Maxim is taking these pieces into the metaverse and creating NFTs, which he sees as a natural progression for this collection.
WHEN: The NFT collection is available now.
WHERE: https://crypto.com/nft/collection/2d407420da9fa0a7846c9f2a29b80f65
About MM:
Hailing from Cambridgeshire, U.K., Maxim has been a creative artist since 2002 after he was inspired to create artwork to hang in his home. Since 2012, he has displayed his mixed media artworks in various exhibitions around the world. He is self-taught and has been known to use many different random objects in his work: spray paints, bullets, blades, and pills to name a few. His artistic images have also been used on fine bone china crockery embellished with 24ct gold. He uses acrylic and ceramic paints along with anything he can get his hands on that will add to the texture of his work. Often his pieces are finished with resin which he feels gives a certain beauty and preciseness to the images, keeping them locked and untouchable behind the resin. Paintings are a journey into MM’s mind and have a surreal edge that takes you somewhere deep into his imagination. Certain pieces show rebellion and the rise of the underdog and the weak. All of MM’s paintings contain signs of strength and positivity while putting a “spin on things” and seeing them from different angles. Grenades carried on the breeze by a raft of red balloons; skull-faced butterflies brandishing Samurai swords, and gun-toting cats are just a few of the surreal fantasy worlds created by MM.
In May 2021, MM collaborated with mixed-media artist Dan Pearce on the powerful and poignant, pandemic Hope project, which included the launch of 50 limited edition sculptures, an exclusive, four-track MM EP as well as the release of an accompanying short film, featuring MM, his new music and starring Pearce’s son, to tell the story behind the pair’s sculpture. Since 2012 MM has supported various charities and donated artwork to raise money for research into Breast Cancer, BT ArtBox for ChildLine, Shelter, NHS Charities Together, Young Minds, and Chain of Hope (cardiac care for children around the world). MM continues to work relentlessly and is now planning exhibitions that will take place in the last quarter of 2022.
As a founding member of world-renowned explosive dance music band, The Prodigy, Maxim is widely associated with the band’s fierce lyrics and vibrant sense of style in videos, explosive live shows and genre-defying hits like “Smack My Bitch Up” and “Firestarter. He is also known as a solo artist, producer and DJ. He currently lives and works in Essex, United Kingdom.
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