Hello and welcome to The Culture Project. I have really busy month with both of my kids birthdays and a deadline on a project. I’m pressed for time this weekend, but I did see a couple projects coming out that I wanted to talk about. Galerie Data is hosting a really cool exhibition in Paris that is a combination of physical and digital collections. There are two really talented artists involved in this exhibit. One I’ve heard of and have collected from in the past and one whom I’m just discovering. These are two very beautiful projects to check out.
Lets dive in.
DISRUPT presented by Galerie Data
I recommend checking out the Press Kit on the event. It covers what the event is about and talks about the two artists involved. It shows some of the physical pieces they are releasing and they look amazing. The Anatomy of Fracture’s really pop off the canvas.
The DISRUPT exhibition presents two series by Aleksandra Jovanić and Florian Zumbrunn, emerging from long-term algorithmic research.
Based on a collaboration between fx(hash) and Galerie Data, the exhibition has a mixed concept between the digital and the tangible. The result is a series of works based on the same algorithm; with a drop on fx(hash), in parallel with an exhibition at the gallery.
Starting from the idea that any system, however regular and structured, can be destabilized by a disruptive intervention, the exhibition transposes this dynamic to the field of generative art.
The exhibition highlights this search for breaks in the course of an algorithmic process, to disrupt its coherent, repetitive results, by deliberately altering them to introduce variations that break the rigidity of predefined structures.
By playing on these programmed alterations, the artists reveal how code can be a tool of construction, but also of subversion, revealing in each composition a continuous exploration of the unexpected.
The code then becomes a tool for dialogue between apparent order and the possibility of controlled chaos, a tension between the system and its destabilization, revealing an ongoing exploration of the unexpected.
The Anatomy of Fracture by Alexis ||| Aleksandra Jovanić
Presented by Galerie Data on fx(hash)
Mints on Tuesday - 200 pieces in the set.
Price: 0.01 ETH (Base)
I’ve collected some of Alexis’s work on fx(hash) in the past. I’ve seen her use a style somewhat like this on a previous project and I really like it. It reminds me of GM.GEN.MATH. One of her projects I minted when it was released.
GM.GEN.MATH #8
There is a lot more depth to The Anatomy of Fracture and I love all the variances in the shapes and colors. This seems to be more of a rarer trait as I didn’t see a lot of these more 3D looking pieces. They are my favorite outputs in the series though all of them are very good.
“The Anatomy of Fracture” is part of the DISRUPT exhibition at Galerie Data (Paris) in October 2024, curated by Gabrielle Debeuret and Olha Pylypenko.
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The Anatomy of Fracture is a continuation of the research initiated with the solo exhibition line(); in December 2023, exploring the process of drawing infinite combinations of lines prompted by one of the works and title instructions of minimalist artist Sol LeWitt. His work is often a reference point for generative artists because of the obvious parallels between his algorithm-like instructions and the natural randomness introduced by various factors. The initial instructions, consistently providing strict constraints, were interpreted in many ways through interactive animations projected on a physical book and triggered by turning the page.Code evolution (and intentional code disruption) gradually diverged from initial instructions, led lines to morph into bands, break their directions, and fracture surfaces into shatters, so the focus of The Anatomy of Fracture became about language imperfections, disruptions of verbal precision, unpredictable visual incidents originating from loose interpretations from spoken language, and embedded ambiguity in the code. Like LeWitt’s instructions, code defines the parameters that orchestrate visual creation, imposing a structure while allowing chance and unpredictability to influence the final output.
Frequently combining simple geometries and principles with scientific notations, diagrams, and graphs, I'm suggesting connections, explanations, and additional instructions, but with the aim to augment how pliable and emotional our minds are in perceiving truth and reality. There are conceptual and some visual links to Sol LeWitt’s The Location of Six Geometric Figures (1974), a series of prints typically consisting of a straightforward, diagrammatic drawing accompanied by frustratingly convoluted directions.
Presented by Galerie Data on fx(hash)
Mints on Thursday - 50 pieces in the set.
Price: 0.08 ETH (Base)
Becoming is a wonderfully calming yet chaotic series. It had a very soothing feel to it as I explored each piece. I love the flow of the lines, shapes, and colors. They look amazing in full screen and would love to see some of the prints in person. There are so many details to these outputs when you zoom in.
With Becoming, I focus on that delicate phase where everything changes. It’s the moment when childhood, still full of dreams and simplicity, starts to confront the complexities of adult life. During this transition, our world transforms, redefines itself, and bumps up against other visions. Yesterday’s certainties crack, perspectives collide, merge, and evolve.
This series explores these moments of change, these micro-universes constantly shifting, where each piece represents a collision of realities. Like two aquariums in friction, ideas, beliefs, and experiences confront one another until a crack forms, allowing things to blend, and a new balance emerges.
The apparent chaos in Becoming hides a subtle dance of evolution and transition, reflecting the journey towards self-redefinition. Reminiscent of micro-organisms, the forms stretch, deform, and intertwine on a grid that’s always changing.
This series follows on from "Foundations" and "Tout tracé". While those series looked at the origins of identity and questioned predefined paths, Becoming focuses on this in-between phase, where the world collides with new perspectives and redefines itself. It’s about transformation, where the individual is shaped through the collisions and blending of ideas and realities.
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