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Pascal Dombis: THE END OF ART
IS NOT THE END
Until 25 August 2024
Bluerider ART London ยท Mayfair
47 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4JW
Bluerider ART presents the London debut solo exhibition of gallery-represented artist Pascal Dombis, titled THE END OF ART IS NOT THE END.
Dombis9s oeuvre explores the universal concept of time through the use of digital nows as the raw material of his work. THE END OF ART IS NOT
THE END presents a mesmerising array of new works, including a series of lenticular pieces and an impressive three-metre-long interactive installation.
Since the early 1990s, Paris-based artist Pascal Dombis (b.1965) has experimented with the possibilities ofered by computer tools for artistic creation, turning from traditional painting to an algorithmic practice. Noted for his use of simple algorithmic rules, Dombis focuses as much on language
as on perception, employing excessive repetitions to create geometric or typographic forms through mural digital frescoes, lenticular works, and
video installations. Starting from a simple visual form, Dombis develops his works using algorithms to generate extreme proliferation, resulting in
efects that are both complex and unexpected. Through the unpredictability of technological processes, he aims to engage viewers by questioning
perception in relation to space, time and language, developing multi-referential works which play with spatial environments and promote multiple
interpretations.
Throughout his work, the artist scrutinises the importance of post-digital mutations triggered by the nature of our era as one inevitably associated
with speed 3 the speed of information now and the proliferation of images, amplioed by digital tools associated with artiocial intelligence over the
past decade. Originally tools for knowledge, the internet, its browsers and associated social networks, have now become bases for propaganda in service of globalised economy and thought. For Dombis, languages, texts, and words are living organisms which have grown, proliferated, are mutating
and will die. He identioes the ultra-fast and out-of-control digital technology expansion as an immediate threat to written texts and words 3 from
the invention of papyrus to the Gutenberg printing press and today9s digital tools 3 ultimately making them obsolete. Texts are essential in Dombis9
practice, innuenced by William S. Burroughs9 experimental writings and in particular the famous Cut-Up technique developed by artist Brion Gysin
and Burroughs in 1960s Paris. By destructuring texts in a random, non-linear way, the Cut-Up practice creates a new language, a notion pertinent to
today9s digital and technological universes.
Images: Pascal Dombis, THE END OF ART (Post-Digital Burn), 2024, 110 x 120 cm, Blowtorch burned lenticular print
Pascal Dombis, Autoportrait III (Post-Digital Burn), 2024, 90 x 120cm, Blowtorch burned lenticular print.
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