Patrick Tresset: We Are Here and Now

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PULPO GALLERY has the great pleasure of inviting you to the opening of We Are Here and Now,  the upcoming solo exhibition of Patrick Tresset, on view from July 1 through August 19, 2023. 

The opening reception will take place on Saturday, July 1, 2023, from 5 pm to 8 pm.  On the occasion of the opening of his solo exhibition, artist Patrick Tresset will be joining a conversation with Prof. Dr. Frieder Nake, computer scientist, and pioneer of computer art and gallerist Nico Zeifang.

Visitors are kindly asked to RSVP to visit@pulpogallery.com.

In his upcoming solo exhibition “We Are Here And Now” at PULPO GALLERY in Murnau, French artist Patrick Tresset (1967) puts the tension between human creativity and ever evolving AI on the spot. 

Whereas It's not about the technology or science, it's about the art, the scientific approach in his art, the artistic process, and a kind of dance between generative art and interaction with people. The result is an impressive theatrical robotic installation that combines art, science, and technology. It also confronts the viewer with the question of people's perception when looking at machines displaying human behavior and mark their presence through the traces left on paper.

Tresset’s exhibition includes a combination of performative installations with a robot trio drawing a sitting visitor of the exhibition and another one, where a single machine continuously draws a still life of the vanitas theme. It also includes a video triptych, revisiting the Memento Mori subject, and a series of monochrome machine-assisted paintings depicting humans.

The central topic of the exhibition is being at a state of a cross-border commuter, witnessing a machine interacting with a human as a model, but also knowing that said machine is just doing what it’s told to do by its programming – done by the human artist. How to draw a line between men and machine, when drawing a line literally is becoming an expression of how far AI can go?

It all comes down to witnessing a triad between the artist, the machine and the human model as a synthesis of the arts, in which men and machine are not working against each other but going hand in hand – one line at a time.