What will the face of art look like, once AI technology has teamed up with the perception and creative mind of the artist in concept design, visual display and sound recording?In Quayola’s solo exhibition at HOW Museum, you see Hellenistic sculptures carved by robots, Baroque frescoes analyzed beneath their figurative appearance in HD videos, old master paintings reduced to color schemes into new abstractions and constantly changing landscapes portrayed as a flow of consciousness, as if you see what you picture in your mind’s eye.The London-based Italian artist is known to use digital technology to tackle classic aesthetics and explore the tensions and equilibriums between seemingly opposing forces: the real and artificial, figurative and abstract, old and new.Through the perspectives of machines, the past is revisited in relationship with present and future — exploring asymmetry that completely excludes humans’ subjective views and leaves machine-processed objective ideas.The “Sculpture Factory” is inspired by the non-finito technique of Michelangelo. It introduces a new performance by a large robot, which sculpts infinite variations of Pluto and Proserpina, Baroque masterpiece of Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini from the 17th century.
