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Artentika™ ready to launch its art identification and authentication solutions. Contact us for more details and to set up a virtual demonstration.

Counterfeit and suspect art exposed

Art forgery is as old as art itself. Fakes already were a lucrative business thousands of years ago. These days, hardly a week goes by without some multi-million-dollar scandal involving counterfeit or misattributed works of art.

Artentika’s breakthrough technologies make identifying and authenticating works of art simple, fast, and reliable. This is crucial for a market which amounts to more than $60 billion per annum, and where suspect works represent an enormous risk to buyers and sellers alike.

Beyond human limitations

Human expertise is indispensible to determine the value of a work of art. Henceforth, art professionals can rely on Artentika for technological support which will remove the physical ambiguities of a work.

Technology

CEO Albertus Geldenhuys and his team have decades of experience in integrating fingerprint biometrics into large forensic systems and access control installations, and deploying them in high-tech environments. Indeed, it was automated fingerprint identification technology that inspired them to invent an Automated Art Identification System™ (AAIS) to remove the guesswork and deception from the art market.

The digital DNA (dDNA™)

Artentika uses multimodal technologies to produce a digital DNA of the work of art or any other item of value, ranging from an earring to a Rembrandt to a vintage car.

The Artomatrix™

The artist’s style and materials automatically combine into a distinctive ‘‘fingerprint’’. When the molecular composition of the materials is added, one obtains a multi-factor Artomatrix™ which is unique and impossible to replicate.

Reference Database

Artentika creates a reference database by scanning a restricted number of works of the artist concerned and compares the work under investigation to this database. A report is issued within 24 hours.

"Painting is poetry, read with intelligence."

- Albertus Geldenhuys