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🟦 16:9 by Danilo Xhema. Everything starts and revolves around 16:9; everything revolves around the screens positioned in a physical and tangible space for existing works that can only be seen through those screens themselves.

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🟦 L’AVVENTURA by Vikki Bardot is an allegorical collection of 40 AI-created artworks that depicts a narrative of lost essence through ethereal landscapes and ghostly female forms on the verge of vanishing from sight. With intertextual references to Antonioni and Tarkovsky films, L’AVVENTURA echoes the void within our spirits, evoking feelings of disorientation in a vast landscape. It mourns the way society has let the essence of femininity and spirituality slip away, like a song once known, now fading and forgotten.

"The woman is lost and forgotten. Spirituality too. In today’s modern world, we have lost the connection with our essence. In my latest work, L’avventura, I continue to experiment with ambiguity and lack of clarity as a narrational technique. The stylistic form itself is the commentary here. The intentionally out-of-focus style, faded hues, and aged analog film textures serve as a mirror to the vanishing presence of spirituality and femininity. These sacred elements, once central to our identity, now seem distant and out of reach."

– Vikki Bardot

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🟦 OPTIONAL PLAQUES is a series of works by artist Peter Burr that play with virtual architecture, unstable capital, and the public commons of the digital age.

Drawing inspiration from constructivist art, utopian architecture, and early computer graphics techniques, Burr depicts monumental human limbs framed within rigid white-on-black scaffolds, blithely admired by a small crowd.

Known for his innovative digital art practice, Burr has recently expanded his body of work with high-profile commissions and collaborations. These include web-based projects currently on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art and MoMA.

🟦 In the series I CHOOSE YOU!, Skye Nicolas continues his exploration of liminal spaces (defined as transitional or transformative zones of existence), leveraging ubiquitous AI-driven technology through the widely popular augmented reality game Pokémon Go. To create each work, Nicolas conceptually reframes Jannis Kounellis’ UNTITLED (12 HORSES) (1969), a landmark instance of postmodern art in which the presence of live animals was crucial to the finished piece. Here, Nicolas initiates contact with the game’s character models, summoning digitized versions of beloved Pokémon characters to life in an interactive augmented reality environment. The artist’s discerning eye and instinctive hand manipulate Pokémon Go’s AI-driven photo capture engine to carefully place, pose, and document these virtual creatures in settings consistent with Pokémon lore. The images are fed to an AI-powered application, which then recreates and renders them in emojis (a semiotic motif employed by the artist), signifying the final stage of the image-making process.

The digital canvas, engulfed in emojis, discloses the artist’s painterly roots, exuding a palpable rhythmic signature. Its expressive gestural forms and sweeping textures, reminiscent of impressionist brushwork and analog abstract paintings, beckon to be viewed in multiple planes of perception and contemplative states.

▪️ 3 NFTs
▪️ 800 EUR

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