De Generation Of Painting

De Generation of Painting, the upcoming exhibition at Fondazione 107 in Torino,devotes itself to visibilizing the works of artists active across a variety of networks and media. Together, they work with and upon new tools of communication, testing formal and conceptual intensities that dually extract from and displace codified processes of image handling. Staking online and offline social networks as objects, subjects, logics, audiences and functions of art, the exhibition celebrates the rapid dissolve of distinctions between virtual and physical toolsets. As such, it points towards the agency of artists in reframing contemporary discussions and concepts of materiality.

As long as art continues to serve a function in the approximation of real and imagined pasts, presents, and futures, we remain far from painting’s prognosticated degeneration.
Rather, a regeneration of painting witnesses a seismic reformulation of the terms of a medium, which now competes with an unprecedented number of forms in the visibilization of information, networks, and speculated realities. At the same time it makes way for the crystallization of a virtual – occasionally skeuomorphic – relationship to the reanimation of antecedent artistic means. In short, while the digital palette may be lighter than air, it will orever carry the weight of its allusive associations.

Some of the artists included: Petrit Halilaj, Vanessa Safavi, Margaret Weber.