Rane Supreme #1 (NFT)

Mina plays with her image and becomes a bodybuilder. It was her own idea and Mauro Balletti made it real. In 1987, this image was used for the cover of “Rane supreme”, gaining interest and admiration straight away. This NFT (Non-Fungible Token), an item that is not replicable nor replaceable, shows the overlapping process Balletti made: he took the picture of the bodybuilder first and then he added a beauty photo of Mina’s face with an eye mask makeup. At that time, Photoshop, the digital photo editing program, didn’t exist yet, so those steps were up to Balletti’s genius and manual ability. He cropped the two photos by hand, overlapped them and then photographed them again. He eliminated the outlines with an airbrush and other analogue graphic procedures. Two videos of Mauro Balletti tell the creation of this piece. An unreleased image becomes a digital art work with blockchain technology.

NFT Content list

• Cover: Unreleased preparatory stock photo
• Unlockable content after purchase
  • The ultimate image obtained starting from the preparatory one
  • Detail: Photo #1 a detail of the preparatory image
  • Video #1: Mauro Balletti explains the techniques used at the time to create the ultimate version of the image
  • Video #2: Mauro Balletti explains the techniques used at the time to create the ultimate version of the image