Auction details for the first Automobili Lamborghini Non-Fungible Token (NFT) are now confirmed. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, from February 1 to February 4, Lamborghini, in collaboration with NFTPRO and RM Sotheby’s, will accept five pairs of physical and digital works by renowned artist Fabian Ofner. The first of the 5 NFT auctions will be held on nft.lamborghini.com starting at 16:00 CET, with the remaining auctions starting and ending 15 minutes later than the previous auction. Each auction runs for 75 hours and 50 minutes, which is exactly the amount of time it took Apollo 11 to leave Earth and orbit the moon.
The Space Key physical artwork contains a carbon fiber fragment that Lamborghini sent to the International Space Station in 2020 as part of a joint research project. Engraved with a unique QR code, this piece of carbon fiber is linked with digital elements in Lamborghini Ultimae’s series of five photos soaring towards the stars. The images depict five distinct moments within seconds of each other as the car lifts off the ground. Parts, engines, transmissions, suspensions, and hundreds of nuts and bolts shoot out of the chassis like the exhaust flames of a rocket.
Although it looks like a computer-generated image, it is actually made entirely of real-world elements. The artist captured more than 1,500 individual parts of a real car. The image of the Earth’s curvature was taken by sending a camera-equipped balloon to the edge of the stratosphere. The artist then carefully assembled all these images into artificial moments of time. Each of the five NFTs has over 600 million pixels. Start zooming in to reveal hidden details in this surreal photo. The resolution is so large that you can read marks as small as a V12 engine or marvel at the different milling patterns of transmission gears. The longer you look at the composition, the more secrets you discover.
Early in the project, artist Fabian Ofner carefully studied Lamborghini Aventador Ultimate’s engineering plans to create an accurate sketch of what the final photo would look like. Based on this sketch, Lamborghini has prepared all the necessary parts and components for the production-ready Ultimate. Ofner and his team then shot the details in a makeshift photo studio next to the production line at the Lamborghini Sant’Agata Bolognese plant. Returning to his American studio near New York, where the artist lives and works, he combined numerous images into a composition conceived in sketches. Ofner and his team took more than two months to create a brief moment in the blink of an eye.
