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The freelance artist behind a million-dollar NFT collection
If you had been passing by Artwork Basel Miami in December, you could have listened to about a Pudgy Penguins club evening. The founder Cole Thereum was there, surrounded by penguin artwork on the wall and even etched into ice. The artist at the rear of it all, Antoine Mingo, was there too, sipping a gin and tonic in the back again of the location, but he kept a reduced profile. He drew the faces and bodies that manufactured up the penguins, but his connection to the project has stayed underneath the radar. Contrary to Cole, no one particular at the get together regarded him. The Miami celebration was a…