Telephone Paintings
Kate Vass Galerie and Anteism Books present a group exhibition “Telephone paintings”currently on display at Anteism Books, Montréal, Canada. Featuring artists:
Cornelia Sollfrank
Sofia Crespo
Manolo Gamboa Naon
Tom White
Desmond Paul Henry
David Young
David Jhave Johnson
The show exhibition with curatorial statement was presented virtually at the NY Artbook Fair, as well as within the Elektra Montreal Showcase of Digital Creation, March 29 to April 1. Also was open for the private tours of the installation, to the Montreal Institute of Learning Algorithms.
Telephone Paintings (Timothy Thomasson, Steven Sych, 2020) is a contemplative, infinite-3D art gallery of paintings and texts created using neural networks. The work uses three generative adversarial networks (GANs) in tandem to create, describe, and provide an imagined history for its generated paintings. The paintings and their descriptions are then displayed in a 3D procedurally -generated gallery: an industrial, corridor-like space, populated at random intervals with everyday objects (chairs, pillars, radiators, martini glasses,...). Nothing repeats. Code controls the selection and camera and 3D models. The audio is an abstracted soundscape of server farms-- fans and rhythmic mechanical pulsing-- a sonic nod to the technological genesis of these works, which is placed in stark contrast to the imagined histories found in the descriptive placards.
In a moment where "remote proximity’’ has become the new normal in every domain, Telephone Paintings places the viewer, artist, curator, and critic at remote algorithmic distance. At a 'real' distance in the 'real' gallery, we follow this thread of the artist’s creativity towards their medium, taking up a variety of material forms. With selected artworks by Cornelia Sollfrank (anonymous-warhol_flowers), Sofia Crespo (organic_resonance_1126), Manolo Gambo Naon (Mantel Blue), Tom White (Electric Fan), Desmond Paul Henry (#824), David Young (Learning Nature), David Jhave Johnson (Pen to Pixel), this is a broad-ranging exhibition that traces the desire lines between the analog and the digital, the automatic and intentional, and the past and the present.
Installation view at Anteism Books in Montréal, Canada
anonymous-warhol_flowers@Aug_31_23.55.30_2018
Computer-generated with the help of the net.art generator (http://net.art-generator.com)
Digital Print on paper
60 x 60 cm
Unique
Exhibited at “Automat und Mensch” show, Zürich, Kate Vass Galerie, 2019