A pioneer of video and computer-based art, Paul Pfeiffer has created celebrated works that sample and re-edit footage from televised sports, concerts, and other mass media events. Exploring the relationship between public spectacle, image culture, and individual and group identity formation, his work is held in the collections of MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum, LACMA, and Hirshhorn Museum. Pfeiffer has received solo exhibitions at MIT’s List Visual Art Center, the MCA Chicago, Honolulu Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Victoria.

Short-form Works from Vs. 

Vs. (Battle of Brisbane)

Vs. (Fight of the Century)

World-renowned artist Paul Pfeiffer presents 

in collaboration with Artwrld. A meditation on our collective cultural obsession with mass spectacle and ritual, 

 is comprised of edited footage pulled from two iconic boxing matches featuring eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao. 

The collection consists of two long-form video works (each an edition of 5 plus 1 AP) and 150 short-form clips (each unique and variable in duration).

The collection of short-form clips have officially sold out but are now available on the 

Paul Pfeiffer's Vs. Sold Out

., transports the viewer to the boxing ring and highlights found footage from two highly anticipated historical boxing matches — Pacquiao vs. Horn and Pacquiao vs. Mayweather. To create each piece, Pfeiffer has taken existing televised footage and digitally erased Pacquiao’s opponent, leaving the viewer to witness a man struggling, resisting, suffering, and at times prevailing over a ghostly foe who is as unseen as he is undeniably present. 

More than an image of sports, Pfeiffer brings his unsparing eye to a culture of cameras and media distribution that ultimately lands, painfully, in a body. The collection presents us with an incredibly evocative and moving work by one of the great visual artists of our time.

About the Collection

A pioneer of video and computer-based art, Paul Pfeiffer has created celebrated works that sample and re-edit footage from televised sports, concerts, and other mass media events. Exploring the relationship between public spectacle, image culture, and individual and group identity formation, Pfeiffer’s work has been included in solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo; and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, among others. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; LACMA, Los Angeles; Pinault Collection, Venice; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf and Berlin; and the Pinothek der Moderne, Munich, among others. 

 will collaborate with Artwrld as the official nonprofit partner for Vs., selected by Pfeiffer to receive a portion of every primary and secondary sale.

Meet the Artist

Ready To Rumbler: A Letter from the Curator by Nato Thompson

Paul Pfeiffer in Conversation with Artwrld Co-Founder Nato Thompson
5/10/23 at 12 PM ET

An Interview with Paul Pfeiffer and Francesco Tenaglia in Mousse Magazine from 2018

Paul Pfeiffer Featured in Art21

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Collection Ethereum Contract Addresses

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, 2023
Video (color), 960 x 720 pixels, Running time: 1 minute 34 seconds
Edition of 5 plus 1 AP

The collection is comprised of two unique, full-length video works (each an edition of 5 plus 1 AP) and 150 shorter clips (each unique and variable in duration).

The short-form works from the collection (150 unique clips variable in length) will be available for mint at .25 ETH. 

Email us at info@artwrld.com to inquire about the long-form works from the collection.

The only verified Ethereum contract addresses for Paul Pfeiffer’s collection Vs. are as follows:

Short-form Works:
0x40b560C346A83f4658aB110BF5ECB893930b04B1

Long-form Works:
0x4acd9C3C43c289EAFBe50A8d7844B11dd7880f67
0x2496b58602aaF3417521F9c267920aac362b9eC7

Be wary of fraudulent collections and scams. Any supposed Vs. collections that do not match these contract addresses are illegitimate.

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