Opinion
Siebren Versteeg Turns His Computer Into Painting’s Terminator
THE DAILY PIC: At Bitforms, Versteeg's software makes paintings as good—or bad—as the ones the art world loves.
THE DAILY PIC (#1780): These fabulous paintings by Siebren Versteeg, on view at Bitforms Gallery in New York, aren’t. Paintings, that is. Every detail in them, including even the texture of the canvas they are “painted” on, is generated by software that Versteeg has written. They take the piss out of the art world’s ever-renewed obsession with pigment slapped onto canvas, and its tolerance for all the clichés that come with it. Not zombie abstractions, this time, but the cyborg variety – Seven of Nine in a painter’s smock and beret. Or could they yet function as painting’s Terminator?
For a full survey of past Daily Pics visit blakegopnik.com/archive.
Follow Artnet News on Facebook:
Want to stay ahead of the art world? Subscribe to our newsletter to get the breaking news, eye-opening interviews, and incisive critical takes that drive the conversation forward.
Share
