The NFT market is not just about 10K animal profile pictures, but first and foremost about real art with deep value and content. That’s at least the take of Jean Paul Rivas, an atypical and somewhat controversial Venezuelan businessman and artist about to launch his own NFT collection.
We we first came across his profile on OpenSea, we felt there was something special about this artist. His profile only features a handful of beautiful AI-generated pictures, and a mysterious statement: “I create digital art for a changing world. It was all as though Jean Paul Rivas was teasing us with something special coming up…
After a few searches around on the Internet, we found an interview of him published on Medium on August 19, 2021 that gave us a little bit more information about him.
As it turns out, Jean Paul Rivas was I “born and raised in Venezuela, where he spent most of his youth. He ran different successful businesses, got bored and chose to travel the world and pursue other passions, such as art.
There seems to be some controversial allegations about his past and Venezuela, and mainly how and who he earned his money with back then. Digging further, we did find a handful of articles alleging connections with a prominent Venezuelan businessman currently under probe for corruption. But this does not seem to worry Jean Paul Rivas, who argues that the fact he can “move freely” shows that there is no matter of concern for him.
Anyway, we’ll try to reach out to him and see what he has been cooking!
Stay tuned!
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