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Alessandro Giannì ” Due to the Image”

Titled “Due to the Image”, the exhibition consists of the first series of paintings made by Alessandro Giannì in collaboration with his custom-made artificial intelligence program named Vasari (after Giorgio Vasari, 1511-1574); opening: Friday, September 10  5-8pm, at Postmasters Gallery  (New York). 

The exhibition will be accompanied by a limited edition publication with texts by the philosopher Giuseppe Armogida and the curator and critic Renato Miracco, designed by Silvio Saccà, supported by Italian Cultural Institute of New York.
In Stanzeitaliane will soon be available an interview with gallerist Magda Sawon and  Renato Miracco.

Alessandro Giannì merges the analog nature of painting with new media, AI, Internet and digital culture in order to explore the connections between the digital universe, new artificial realities, and the dreamlike and introspective world of human beings, past and present. He collects various aesthetic fragments and historical symbols from the web, culture and social networks and twists them into a new kaleidoscopic, digitized and abstracted visual language of his own, while holding on to the most classic form of art, the Painting.

Vasari was born from Alessandro Giannì’s need to find an alternative to human logic to conceive his works. The AI has been programmed to emulate the compositional processes of Giannì, by tracing the artist’s body of work and his extensive digital visual archive. The software was developed in 2020 by Unboolean, a creative studio that moves on the border between art and engineering.

The creation starts with several inputs, such as keywords provided by the artist that Vasari uses to search the web for images, or a selection of images that are uploaded into the software and then reworked. The software can process an unlimited number of images that will remain in the archive and are stored in a non-relational database, using a deep learning model called convolution neural network (CNN).
In addition to the archive and given keywords by the artist, Giannì provides the AI with crucial input for sketch composition, such as image size, colour preferences, quantity of images to combine, and a variety of other possibilities. Giannì also intervenes manually and feeds the resulting image to the AI, which modifies it again based on further inputs.

 

Alessandro Giannì was born in Rome in 1989, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. He has exhibited his works in several institutions in Italy and abroad including: the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center (Washington DC, USA); the residence of the Italian ambassador to the USA “Villa Firenze” (Washington DC, USA); the MAXXI museum (Rome, Italy); the MACRO museum (Rome, Italy); the Casa delle Armi (Rome, Italy); the Swiss Institute of Rome (Italy); the Swiss Institute of Milan (Italy); Kühlhaus Berlin (Berlin, Germany); the Winter Museum (Siena, Italy), the Gardens of the Venice Casino (Venice, Italy). He was the art director for the EGH project by Enrico Ghezzi and Emiliano Montanari at the 73rd Venice Biennale Cinema – International Film Festival and in 2014 he took part in the show Ñewpressionism at the Swiss Cultural Institute in Milan, curated by the Greek artist Miltos Manetas. Recent exhibitions include: Ineffable Worlds, Tang Contemporary Art (Hong Kong) Transfiguration: leaving reality behind, Postmasters Gallery (New York, USA); Spaziomensa (Rome, Italy); Salon Palermo, Rizzuto Gallery (Palermo, Italy); Expo Azimut Libera Impresa (Fiera Milano-Rho); Messinscèna, Numero Cromatico (Rome, Italy); Questa razza di diavoli non conosce regole!, Maker Faire – The European Edition; L’apocalisse dell’ora, AlbumArte (Rome, Italy).

  • Organized by: Postmasters Gallery
  • In collaboration with: IIC-NY