NORBERT THOMAS - STILL
Press release
STILL
STILL is a unique exhibition.
Since the origins of art, artworks have remained still. Until now.
Although there are precedents in kinetic art, video art and generative art, STILL occupies a place closer to traditional art.
Some processes begin with a fixed, static image —an artwork, a photograph, a sculpture or any immobile representation— and do not seek to generate a new image, but to activate its presence in time.
Others use various generative and derivative technologies, which do not invent the work or make decisions for the artist: they simply allow precise, controlled interventions on the original image.
The result is a series of unique images inhabiting a rarely explored territory between image, time and presence.
And each work is original and unrepeatable.
CV - Biography:
Norbert Thomas / TITO
Barcelona
The gallery presents STILL, the new exhibition by Norbert Thomas / TITO, a project centered on an idea as simple as it is unsettling: to make move that which has always remained still. The exhibition brings together portraits, references to classical and modern works, derivative pieces, and visual systems developed through digital artistic research, articulating a trajectory in which the fixed image enters a new dimension: Time.
The body of work in STILL includes pieces in which historical and contemporary portraits are activated through minimal, almost imperceptible variations, as well as generative works constructed with particles, flows, and algorithmic processes. Alongside these is ART MACHINES, a series of live painting program-machines that interpret in real time what the camera records, transferring the viewer’s presence into the image field and turning observation into pictorial matter.
Far from easy effect or technological spectacle, STILL proposes a precise investigation of the instant.
There is something quantum in the moment an artist chooses to stop time and render it forever. It could be an instant before or after along a timeline.
Would the Mona Lisa be less important, or less extraordinary, if Leonardo had chosen a different instant?