πππππ ππππππ (2025) is the last addition to Andrea Chiampoβs π ππππππ ππππ collection. Newly commissioned for Art Basel Miami Beach 2025, the work embodies the eternal paradox of life, the tenderness and brutality that coexist within all beings.
In this piece, Mother Nature stands as both womb and witness, giving birth to Good and Evil alike. The placenta metamorphoses into a blind serpent that coils around the motherβs leg, trapping a vulnerable life within itself as a fragile hostage to destiny. She does not kill the serpent but tames it, keeping it close yet distant enough not to be bitten. Her averted gaze speaks not of sorrow but of acceptance β a silent recognition that even cruelty is her creation.
The project is rooted in Chiampoβs mission to unite ancient art-making techniques with modern technology, integrating blockchain as both medium and performative layer within the work, opening a new dialogue between tradition and innovation.
Asprey Studio has translated the sinuous forms of this work into sterling silver, crafted by master silversmiths at the Asprey Studio Atelier in Kent, England.
Existing in both digital and physical form as a 1/1 Edition, πππππ ππππππ reflects on the endangered art of traditional silversmithing, revived and celebrated at the highest level through contemporary technological innovation.
DIGITAL ARTWORK
The Digital Artwork of MATER NATVRA expands the sculpture into an interactive digital experience.
Rather than a static token, it becomes a navigable catalog where viewers can explore the piece from multiple perspectives, allowing them to observe its most intimate details. The making of the sculpture began in the physical world. A model posed for Chiampo over months of observation. The artist translated that corporeal reality into digital matter through his own perception and manual sculpting. It becomes both archive and portal, capturing the journey from human body to artistβs eye to digital form.
The final experience is a hybrid relic. A contemporary artwork that honors the old ways of sculpting while embracing the new language of interactive digital media. A tribute to craft, patience, and the enduring entanglement between physical and digital matter.
Chiampo refers to this as a βPROOF OF PROCESSβ, a declaration of authorship rooted in a disappearing skill and time rather than pure automation.
The interface presents a gallery of images that function as a guided exploration of the sculptureβs forms.
Each view includes a twelve-step creation timeline.
These timelines reveal the sculptureβs evolution from the first raw digital shape to the final refined anatomy. The progressive frames expose the gestures, decisions, and corrections that usually remain invisible in the final results of a sculpture.
Preview GIFs. The real experience allows the viewer to navigate each step independently.BTS
Digital sculpting turns a screen into clay.
The artist shapes virtual matter by pushing, pulling, carving, and smoothing it by hand one stroke at a time, until form and detail emerge.