OPENING OF SOLO EXHIBITION BY ESPEN KLUGE ON 30.10.2019 @KATE VASS
ON 3OTH OCTOBER 2019 THE OPENING OF THE SOLO SHOW BY ESPEN KLUGE TOOK PLACE AT THE PREMISSES OF KATE VASS GALERIE IN ZURICH!
100 of unique portraits are exhibited in various forms both digital and physical. The artist Espen Kluge flew with his girlfriend Ida for the opening and we were very excited to meet both of them! Jason Bailey, curator of this wonderful show, and the discoverer of Espen’s work, has also arrived and was giving a great speech to the audience, explaining why generative art and Espen Kluge works are so important and inspiring. We had a great evening and nice flow of apero, network and admiration of art! i wish i had spent more time with Espen and Ida, as well as with Jason.. but our meetings are always short and limited to the very busy agenda of all! I am glad that Espen signed all the prints personally, as well as COAs which are available to view online https://www.katevassgalerie.com/print?category=Espen%20Kluge
i would like to mention as well that as a part of our commitment to emerging collectors for whom printing, framing, shipping can be cost prohibitive, we are also offering unique works by Kluge available to buy digital or via blockchain you can see the list here https://www.katevassgalerie.com/digital
more about our solutions to collect digital i will wrote in my next post! Meanwhile, please enjoy some pictures from the Vernissage!
Curator Jason Bailey & the artist Espen Kluge…probably listening to me giving the introduction speech :)
ON 3OTH OCTOBER 2019 THE OPENING OF THE SOLO SHOW BY ESPEN KLUGE TOOK PLACE AT THE PREMISSES OF KATE VASS GALERIE IN ZURICH!
100 of unique portraits are exhibited in various forms both digital and physical. The artist Espen Kluge flew with his girlfriend Ida for the opening and we were very excited to meet both of them! Jason Bailey, curator of this wonderful show, and the discoverer of Espen’s work, has also arrived and was giving a great speech to the audience, explaining why generative art and Espen Kluge works are so important and inspiring.
Kate Vass Galerie, Zurich 30/10/2019
We had a great evening and nice flow of apero, network and admiration of art! i wish i had spent more time with Espen and Ida, as well as with Jason.. but our meetings are always short and limited to the very busy agenda of all! I am glad that Espen signed all the prints personally, as well as COAs which are available to view online https://www.katevassgalerie.com/print?category=Espen%20Kluge
i would like to mention as well that as a part of our commitment to emerging collectors for whom printing, framing, shipping can be cost prohibitive, we are also offering unique works by Kluge available to buy digital or via blockchain you can see the list here https://www.katevassgalerie.com/digital
more about our solutions to collect digital i will wrote in my next post!
Kate Vasilieva & Alessia Realis, Kate Vass Galerie 30/10/2019
I would like to say special thank to my dear colleague Alessia Realis, without her contribution this show would not come true, its very important to work with people who you can trust and rely on. I am very happy to have such great people who I am honored to work with: Jason and Espen thank you for your collaboration!
Meanwhile, please enjoy some pictures from the Vernissage!
Kate Vass Galerie hosts its 2nd meet up session in collaboration with Multichain Asset Managers Association in Zurich.
Our next #Zurich #meetup at Kate Vass Galerie in collaboration with Multichain Asset Managers Association, this time with Neufund explaining the benefits of investing in tokenized equity. The members and attendees will be able to get in addition an exclusive pre-view of the opening-soon solo show by Espen Kluge "ALTERNATIVES", the artist and curator Jason Bailey will be present ! #tokenization #blockchain #assetmanagement #art Please register here: https://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-MxIAcYAu/events/265530355/
Kate Vass Galerie @ CADAF MIAMI 2019
Kate Vass Galerie Brings Masters of Generative Art to CADAF at Art Basel Miami
Jared Tarbell, Substrate.IPY, 2019
We are all living smack in the middle of a digital revolution that is changing our lives with a depth and speed never before witnessed in human history. So it should be no surprise that the most exciting and innovative artists working today have let go of their nostalgia for centuries-old tools like paintbrushes and chisels in favor of computer programming languages and sophisticated algorithms which better reflect the uniqueness of the times that we live in.
Many galleries and artists have been slow to adapt to this digital revolution and are just now scrambling to find an angle for using technology to make their traditional artwork feel more exciting and relevant. But technologies like AI (artificial intelligence) and ML (machine learning) are not “angles” or “trends” that can be poured on top of traditional analog art like some kind of rejuvenation sauce to make them more relevant. New technologies like AI and ML are highly sophisticated art-making tools in their own right. In the hands of generative art masters like Memo Akten, Helena Sarin, David Young, Sofia Crespo, and Tom White, AI is more than a buzzword. Like brushes, chisels, cameras, or any other art-making tool, AI and ML require mastery to produce artworks that transcend “everyday” experience and bring us closer to the sublime.
Helena Sarin, An Eternal Tangle of What Ifs, 2018
While AI and ML have been drawing the most attention in the last year, generative art as a genre has deep roots that trace all the way back to the beginning of computing. The best generative artists have always been those who are as brilliant in their skills with programming as artists like Picasso and Van Gogh were in their skill with brushes and paint. Generative artists like Manolo Gamboa Naon.
Manolo’s work feels like it is the result of the entire contents of twentieth-century art and design being put into a blender. Once chopped down into its most essential geometry, Manolo then lovingly pieces it back together with algorithms and code to produce art that is simultaneously futuristic and nostalgic. His work serves as a welcome (and needed) bridge into digital art and an antidote for those who see the genre as being too mechanical and discontinuous with the history of art.
Manolo Gamboa Naon, LLRR, 2018
We at Kate Vass Galerie are excited to bring the best work by the most respected generative artists from around the globe to CADAF this year for Art Basel Miami. We take generative art very seriously and see ourselves as missionaries helping to educate and bring attention to these important artists to make sure their work is discovered and properly appreciated during their lifetimes. It is our mission to offer only the best work by the most creative artists who are pushing the boundaries of the genre - artists like Espen Kluge, who currently has his first one person show in our Zürich gallery in Switzerland. Kluge’s ground-breaking generative portraits feel monumental and architectural, reminding us of the sculptures of the Russian Constructivists like Naum Gabo and Vladimer Tatlin. But in contrast to the somber character of the Constructivists, Kluge’s work explodes with a rainbow of color and emotion. Though the details of their expressions are abstracted into masses of colorful geometric threads, Kluge’s portraits display the full range of the human condition. This is especially remarkable when you consider that Kluge is working in the genre of generative art, often criticized for being cold, geometric, and esoteric. Kluge gives generative art a new direction with work that is warm, universally approachable, and equally accessible to both the heart and the mind.
Espen Kluge, makes great choices while angry, 2019
Like everything else in our lives, art is undergoing a massive digital transformation. Generative art best reflects that transformation, and the work on view with Kate Vass Galerie at CADAF in Art Basel Miami is your chance to see it all in one place. We hope to see you there!
John Watkinson & Matt Hall, Autoglyph #36, 2019
Kate Vass Galerie is excited to feature new series Tabula Rasa by David Young
AI and machine learning are playing an increasingly large role in our daily lives yet there is much about how they work that still remains a mystery. Do machines really “think” and if so how are we to understand their intelligence? To better understand and explore these mysteries artist David Young uses the absolute minimum training data on his machine learning models in hopes of isolating and illuminating the thoughts that are unique to machine intelligence.
In addition to his compelling new artworks, Young has written a wonderful essay titled Tabula Rasa - Rethinking The Intelligence Of Machine Minds which asks “if machines have intelligence is it a rational intelligence or an emotional intelligence”? The essay is available at Artnome.com along with a foreword by curator and art historian Jason Bailey. In his foreword Bailey builds on Young’s line of thinking through a Jungian analysis in direct contrast to John Locke’s concept of the tabula rasa or “blank tablet.”
Rather than starting with a “blank slate,” Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung believed that we are all born with a set of shared ideas, a “collective unconscious.” According to Jung, this collective unconscious is filled with archetypes and visual symbols that resonate universally within humans regardless of their individual experience, geography, or era.
When David Young shared a contact sheet of work from his latest machine learning model which was trained on minimal data, I was shocked at how similar the images were to twentieth-century abstract paintings.
This led me to wonder, could it be possible that machine learning models also have a collective unconscious? If so, could that collective unconscious include some of the same archetypes and symbols we have as humans? Is it possible that a machine learning model, when given little to no training material (as with David’s Tabla Rasa model), produces symbols that may come largely from its own collective unconscious rather than the sparse data it has been trained on?
Indeed, Young’s new work bares a striking resemblance to the masterworks of the abstract expressionists. As an example you can see young machine learning abstraction below in comparison with the abstract paintings of Agnes Martin.
A selection of paintings by minimalist abstract painter Agnes Martin
A selection of work from David Young’s Tabula Rasa
As part of our Kate Vass Galerie’s commitment to our digital collectors, we are making a series of five works by Young, specially chosen by senior curator Jason Bailey, available in our Kate Vass Digital store. These works are tokenized on the Ethereum blockchain, have been uploaded to IPFS for decentralized storage, and include a certificate of authentication from Kate Vass Galerie. Every digital work is unique ed.1/1.
Thinking about our traditional collectors who also appreciate the beauty of print and esthetics of colors and physical touch of the artist, we make those artworks also available in unique prints in various sizes. Please see the gallery.
Left to right: David Young, Kate Vass, Jason Bailey (at CADAF NYC, Spring 2019)
Artist Espen Kluge Debuts Generative Portrait Series “Alternatives” at Kate Vass Digital
We are thrilled to announce that Kate Vass Galerie will be representing the work of Norwegian digital artist Espen Kluge. In his recent interview with Kluge, senior curator for Kate Vass Galerie Jason Bailey called Kluge “an artist’s artist” and compared his work to the Russian constructivist Naum Gabo with “a touch of mid-century modern of symmography.” As part of this interview, Bailey has carefully curated several works by Kluge to debut with the Kate Vass Galerie. These include the three portraits below available as archival single-edition prints exclusively from Kate Vass Galerie.
Espen Kluge, makes great choices while angry - 2019
Espen Kluge, ash when he arrives, every time - 2019
Espen Kluge, superclear when I say it’s risky business - 2019
As part of our commitment to digital art and to emerging collectors for whom printing, framing, and shipping can be cost prohibitive, we are also making a series of five works by Kluge, specially curated by Jason Bailey, available in our new Kate Vass Digital store. These works are tokenized on the Ethereum blockchain, have been uploaded to IPFS for decentralized storage, and come with a certificate of authentication from Kate Vass Galerie.
The first of these works, cruise ships and police cars, will be auctioned this week with no reserve price to enable everyone to have an opportunity to participate.
Espen Kluge, they don't have this for humans - 2019
Espen Kluge, cruise ships and police cars -2019
Espen Kluge, any individual -2019
Espen Kluge, more extraverted than you - 2019
Espen Kluge, 100 atoms in my favor - 2019
All questions and inquiries about Espen Kluge and his work at the Kate Vass Galerie can be directed to ar@katevassgalerie.com
Kate Vass Galerie Partners With Artnome And Launches New Platform
The team at the Kate Vass Galerie is thrilled to announce a strategic partnership with Artnome and the launch of our new online sales platform. Collectors from around the world can now collect artwork by preeminent digital artists including Casey Reas, Mario Klingemann, and Cornelia Sollfrank as well as renowned photographers like Man Ray, Brett Weston, and Karl Lagerfeld directly from Kate Vass Galerie online.
With the new platform comes a new site design, created in collaboration with Artnome, which better highlights the work of the many talented artists we feature in our gallery. These are just the first steps in moving towards our ambitions of becoming the number one destination online for collectors of cutting edge digital art and photography.
Kate Vass Galerie and Artnome will continue to grow the gallery’s presence on and off line through the introduction of the latest technologies including virtual reality (VR) and a blockchain-based gallery to make collecting digital art accessible to the next generation of collectors.
As co-curator of our current show, Automat und Mensch, Artnome founder Jason Bailey brought a combination of art historical knowledge and technological vision that few others in the art world possess. Bailey will continue to advise Kate Vass Galerie on artists and provide curatorial assistance moving forward.
From Left: Robbie Barrat, Herbert W. Franke, Mario Klingemann, Kate Vass, Jason Bailey, Georg Bak
As an official partner, the Kate Vass Galerie will also become integrated into the highly popular Artnome website as the official gallery of Artnome. Bailey will help us with our mission to educate collectors and provide artists with additional exposure.
You can watch Bailey’s recent presentations at Christie’s Art + Tech Summit in NYC last month where he makes predictions for the art market and interviews AI artist Robbie Barrat below.
Machine Learning and Analytics: Predictions for the Art Market
An Interview with Robbie Barrat and Jason Bailey
Please join us in celebrating this new partnership! As always we welcome any questions or feedback and you can reach us through our contact page.