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February 22 2024

Breath-Taking AI Experience Opened in Serpentine North Gallery – Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive

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Pioneer in AI art and technology, Turkish artist Refik Anadol has opened his first solo exhibition at Serpentine North Gallery, ‘Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive’. The immersive exhibition wraps the gallery’s walls in ever-changing AI-generated images inspired by coral reefs and rainforests.

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Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive

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NOTE: The exhibition contains flashing imagery.

The exhibition showcases Anadol’s expertise in bringing digital art to life to give us new perspective on how we see the connection between human and nature.

“We are using nature as an input for AI to raise awareness of its beauty and complexity. At the moment, AI research is focusing on human reasoning and how to mimic it, but to me, nature needs a different focus that is very different to our logic.” – Anadol says in an interview with Designboom.

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‘Artificial Realities: Coral (2023)’ was first unveiled at the World Economic Forum in 2023. This project features coral reefs and underwater scenes using a massive dataset of billions of images of corals – openly accessible online – to create a breath-taking visual experience.

Anadol says in the interview that they “found a way to create ultra-realistic that perhaps can be used as a 3D sculpture or a 3D sense of being underwater that can turn into a living ecosystem.”

In the exhibition, AI generates endless variety of abstract coral images, visual and colour combinations based on the enormous data base it has access to.

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Another part of the exhibition is ‘Living Achieve: Large Nature Model’ has premiered earlier this year at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

This project has been adapted specifically for Serpentine North Gallery and showcasing AI images inspired by extensive data of flora, fungi, and fauna form over 16 rainforests across the globe.

‘Artificial Realities: Rainforest’ is also a recent project, showcasing shape-shifting exotic birds. This project marks the longest continuous generative AI visualisation on nature that has ever created.

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Anadol’s studio travelled across the globe to understand what it means to live in a rainforest. During their journey they formed a very close relationship with an indigenous family living in Amazonia. As the studio travelled, they were collecting not just images, but also sounds and climate information. As a result, the AI model they’re using now has half billion data points dedicated to Amazonia.

“We have a responsibility as a studio to not just offer beautiful virtual worlds with AI and art, but to highlight that we have something incredibly important that we perhaps lost and find a new way to connect with nature through technology.” – says Anadol.

Practical Info

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Address

Serpentine North Gallery | W Carriage Dr, London W2 2AR

Opening Times

16 February – 7 April 2024

Monday: CLOSED

Tue – Sun: 10am – 6pm

Tickets

FREE | A limited number of pre-booked tickets are available for guaranteed timed entry. If the pre-booked tickets sold out, walk-ins accepted but you may have to queue.

Ready for your next adventure? Whilst you’re in Hyde Park, why not visit Serpentine Galleries’ other venue, Serpentine South Gallery where there’s another free exhibition, called ‘Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You.’

February 2 2024

Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You. – New Exhibition at Serpentine South Gallery

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Serpentine South Gallery presents, American artist, Barbara Kruger’s first solo exhibition in London in over 20 years. ‘Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You.’ combines text, audio clips and memes to explore how we consume online and offline content.

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Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You.

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“I shop, therefore I am.” This statement welcomes visitors of Barbara Kruger’s solo exhibition at Serpentine South in Hyde Park. If you wait a moment, however, the message shutters into puzzle pieces to reassemble itself again, but this time showing different statements: “I shop, therefore I horde”, “I need, therefore I shop”, “I die, therefore I was”, “I love, therefore I need”.

Barbara Kruger is known for her impactful works with words and images. Her works have been presented across various spaces from billboards to skate parks to buildings and buses.

Having worked as graphic designer for newspapers and magazines for years, such as Mademoiselle, House and Garden and Aperture, Kruger developed her own unique visual language that borrows from newspaper aesthetics, advertising, and social media.

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‘Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You.’ is an immersive exhibition with multiple rooms to explore. Each room features a never-ending flow of texts, audio clips, memes or animated photos often using provocative language.

Everchanging sentences and headlines are being written in front of our eyes in Helvetica Ultra Compressed, Futura Bold and Futura Bold Oblique constantly changing the meaning of the sentences. The texts are about consumerism, power, and gender, pushing us to constantly re-think and re-consider our perspectives on how we see the world around us.

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At the same time single-word statements and short phrases are echoing back and forth within the walls of the exhibition rooms, directly addressing the viewer.

Kruger is manipulating the language of social media and online culture. She is sampling memes, lyrics and texts from social media and newspapers, questioning society and authority and our place in it.

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The whole exhibition is very photogenic, however, the most Instagrammable room is perhaps the one with the black and white installation covering all the walls and the floor.

A quote from George Orwell’s famous novel, ‘1984’ is installed on the floor, while another quote from Virginia Woolf is installed on the longest wall, highlighting the word “YOU” as if we were looking at it through a fish-eye lens.

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Barbara Kruger’s artworks have not only been featured on billboards, galleries, and buses, but her designs have frequently appeared on merchandise. Some limited-edition merch is available to purchase at Serpentine South building.

Kruger’s designs appear not only within but outside the walls of Serpentine South as well. If you’re lucky, you can spot one of the three iconic London taxis with Kruger’s unmissable designs somewhere in London.

One of Kruger’s digital installations, ‘Silent Writings’ 2009/2024 will also be presented in collaboration with Outernet London next to Tottenham Court Road Station.

The artwork will be showing on selected Monday evenings from 4 March 2024. Download Outernet London’s mobile app for timings. App Store Google Play

Practical Info

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Address

Serpentine South Gallery | Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA

Opening Times

1 February – 17 March 2024

Tue – Sun: 10am – 6pm

Tickets

The exhibition is free and open to all | You can book a time slot here for guaranteed entry, however, walk-ins accepted on a first come first serve basis.

Ready for your next adventure? Halcyon Gallery is currently running a free Andy Warhol exhibition. ‘Andy Warhol: Beyond the Brand’– among many others – features 10 never-seen-before artworks from the pop artist’s famous ‘Ads’ series. Make sure you visit both of the buildings of Halcyon Gallery!

October 5 2023

Get an Intimate Glimpse into Sculptural Process – Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015 at Serpentine South Gallery

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Come with me to the press preview of pioneering German artist, Georg Baselitz’s solo exhibition and take an intimate glimpse into his sculptural process. Welcome to ‘Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015’.

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Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015

“Sculptors have a way of producing drawings that aim at comprehending space. I don’t draw like an artist or painter. Instead, I draw more like and architect – always in a very matter-of-fact manner. That’s why I’ve never really regarded the drawings I’ve selected for the exhibition as drawings.” – Georg Baselitz

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With a career spanning over six decades, German artist, Georg Baselitz (born 1938, Saxony, Germany) has brought new perspectives to the tradition of German Expressionism.

Serpentine South Gallery brings you an exciting journey for bronze sculpture preparation from sketch to maquette to the completed artwork.

Towering wood sculptures carved from single tree trunks and a selection of 68 related loose drawings in pen, pencil and ink were taken directly from his studio, Georg Baselitz gives us an exclusive insight into his art process.

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These raw carved sculptures that are on display at Serpentine South Gallery were not originally intended for public view. Instead, they were used as maquettes or models for the bronze sculptures.

Many of the wooden sculptures are more than five metres high giants and were carved with power axes, saws, and chisels.

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The related sketches and drawings were surprisingly not preparatory sketches for the wooden sculptures. Instead, they were drawn during the sculpting process to help the artist see the same idea in different perspectives and viewpoints.

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Don’t miss the opportunity to see both the sketch and the wooden maquette within the gallery and the final artwork of the monumental, 9-metre tall Zero Dom (Zero Dome) being exhibited outside, right next to the gallery.

Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015 is a remarkable exhibition highlighting the links between two- and three-dimensional processes and giving visitors a rare opportunity to witness the sculptural process resulting to breath-taking monumental bronze artworks.

Practical Info

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Address

Serpentine South Gallery | Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA

Opening Times

5 October 2023 – 7 January 2024

The exhibition is FREE to visit | NO booking required

Ready for your next adventure? While you’re in Hyde Park, why not walk to Serpentine North Gallery (7-min walk from Serpentine South) and visit interactive exhibition ‘Third World: The Bottom of Dimension’ by Gabriel Massan? The exhibition allows visitors to play free video game, enjoy animated clips and learn about the impact of colonialism on the Black Brazilian people.