aurèce vettier is an art project founded in 2019 by Paul Mouginot (b. 1990). This alias, formed using an algorithm, is a metaphor for the desire for a collaborative, open and hybrid approach.
This identity, like all of aurèce vettier’s work, allows for a lot of back and forth between the «real» space in which it is possible to exist, to draw, paint, sculpt, break, erase; and the «data» space, where it is possible to play with more dimensions than a human can grasp - a gesture analogous to uploading and then downloading an image over and over again on an online platform.
In this virtual space, which may involve AI algorithms or heavy mathematical processing, aurèce vettier explores new forms, which are then deployed as tangible objects, in close connection with many crafts.
The approach is not to consider the machine-generated elements as a set of finished works, but rather as raw material expanding conceptual possibilities and complementing the initial knowledge of art history.
aurèce vettier, element/tr33, bronze sculpture, AI generated forms, 50 cm x 40 cm x 40 cm, AV-2022-U-259, Photo Samuel Landée
Poetry is the backbone of aurèce vettier’s entire practice, whose first work was to publish a book of poetry in collaboration with a machine. Without ever replacing the artist, the algorithms thus served as a camp aid, generating raw material that was subsequently assembled by hand.
Continuing a research begun in the 1950s by the first artists to use generative approaches, aurèce vettier has observed that the more sophisticated technologies become, the more fragile the works they engender.
This specific and haunting gesture, this perpetual journey between the real and the virtual world, is now deployed in many territories in a minimal gesture.
Thus, the Potential Herbariums series is made up of oil paintings, bronze sculptures or digital works representing impossible forms of plants dreamed up by artificial intelligences, which could have been found on the slopes of Mount Analogue, the mythical mountain of René Daumal’s unfinished work.
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residencies
2022 Kinono Art Gathering Residency, Tinos, Greece
2021 GLITCH blockchain Residency, Château du Feÿ, France
awards
2020 Grand Prize, AI.ART Gallery Award, South Korea
exhibitions
solo shows
2022 «Circular Ruins», curated by Dayneris Brito, galerie darmo & Gismondi, Paris 2022 «Wind Fragments», Cultural Foundation of Tinos, Greece
2021 «Opus Sectile: de la marqueterie de pierres dures à aurèce vettier», galerie darmo & Gismondi, Paris, France
group shows
2023 Ce que disent les plantes, Le Grenier à Sel, Avignon, France
2023 Symphonie Pastorale, Galerie Gosserez, Paris, France
2023 Techno Terrain : Nature in the age of the Metaverse, EXPANDED.ART, Berlin, Germany
2023 AD.VM.AV.IA on the other side of the polyhedron (1514-2023), with Vera Molnár, curated by Vincent Baby, Le Transfo, Paris, France
2023 POÈME SBJKT, Librairie Métamorphoses, Paris, France
2022 POÈME OBJKT, Avant-Galerie Vossen, Paris, France
2022 Ecotone, curated by Primavera De Filippi, Stina Gustafsson and Alex Estorick on Feral File
2022 Musée des Archives Nationales : Collaboration with Gilles & Boissier, Paris, France
2022 SuperRare gallery x theVERSEverse, New York City, USA
2022 «Tellus Meta», curated by Victoire de Pourtalès, Brownstone Foundation, Paris 2022 «Sillons», curated by Elora Weill-Engerer, Association Fertiles, Paris, France
2022 «NFT Paris» with the Museum of Contemporary Digital Art
2021 «Proxima», Gucci & A Magazine Curated By, darmo & Gismondi Gallery, Paris 2021 «Liminal Territories», curated by Filippo Lorenzin, galerie pal-project, Paris, France
2020 «Programme Spécial», curated by Gael Charbau & Yvannoe Kruger, La Méditerranée, Poush, Clichy, France
art fairs
2023 Art Paris with Spaceless Gallery, Paris, France
2022 Asia Now with 91530, Paris, France
2022 TEFAF Maastricht with galerie darmo & Gismondi, Paris, France