

Marcus Couto is a Brazilian painter and visual artist currently based in São Paulo, finalist of the Ibero-American Visual Arts Award. His paintings cover a range of themes, such as the dark aspects of nature (human or otherwise), spirituality, sacrifice, technology, among others. Since 2021, he has been working as a cryptoartist, registering his paintings on blockchains. More recently, he has been focusing on Bitcoin's Ordinals. His latest Ordinal collection, "Fragments of Acrylic", is a series of paintings created by the artist, photographed and permanently recorded on the Bitcoin blockchain as 1/1s. The collection invites reflection on legacy and the possibility of permanence in a world that increasingly seems to be facing the inevitability of dissolution.