BEHIND THE CUBE
Inside millionaire life of artist Niclas Castello behind Central Park’s gold cube with wife Sylvie Meis & crypto plan
THE lavish lifestyle of German artist Niclas Castello and his glamorous wife Sylvie Meis has been revealed as he launches a new cryptocurrency.
Castello, 43, recently drew attention after he staged a publicity stunt where he put a pure 24-karat gold cube weighing 186 kilograms in New York’s Central Park.
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The object is estimated to be worth $11.7million, should it ever go on sale.
Castello billed the block as a “socle du monde” (base of the world) sculpture.
He told that it is “a conceptual work of art in all its facets” and that he'd wanted to “create something that is beyond our world - that is intangible.”
“The cube can be seen as a sort of communiqué between an emerging 21st-century cultural ecosystem based on crypto and the ancient world where gold reigned supreme,” Viennese gallerist added to ArtNet.
The Castello Coin is being traded as $CAST and is training at an initial price of $0.44.
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The artist's team told the that he had privately sold enough of the coins to finance the cube project.
Castello was born in Neuhaus am Rennweg in what was then East Germany on July 21, 1978.
He lived in Montmartre, Paris from 2001 before moving back to Germany in 2003 where he studied art at a private university although he dropped out after two years.
Castello then moved to New York City where he was supported by Arleen Schloss and lived in her loft for around two years.
He built his reputation on a series of sculptures called The Kiss sculptures and artwork depicting fire extinguishers.
According to ArtNet, Castello’s style has been influenced by Pop Art as well as the Neo-Expressionism of Jean-Michel Basquiat, which has influenced both his paintings and sculptures.
It says: “Using the imagery of popular culture, his work strongly comments on the consumer world and its relationship to art and society, continuing perspectives of Andy Warhol.”
Castello is married to the Dutch model Sylvie Mies, 43, who previously was married to footballer Rafael Van der Vaart.
The pair got married in September 2020 after their initial summer nuptials were delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The couple enjoy an apparently glamorous lifestyle and have regularly been spotted enjoying a dip in the sea at places like the playground for the rich Saint Tropez.
They were also seen enjoying a beach holiday on the island of Saint Barthelemy in December 2019.
She posted a picture of herself in her bikini with the caption: "Happy girl on the beach #stbarths".
Earlier the same month they had been seen splashing about on Miami Beach.
Before Meis tied the knot she described Castello as “a good man. He is down to earth, has flair, is cosmopolitan because of his job. Successful, loving.”
Meis was married to Van der Vaart for eight years before their split in 2013 and they have a son and daughter together.
Castello can certainly afford all those beach holidays in exotic locations around the world, if website is to be believed, which estimates he has a wealth of $15million, although no details were given as to how this figure was arrived at.
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The website PopularBio though estimates his wealth to be a much more modest figure of between $1-5m.
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