This is the first solo exhibition of French visual artist Pascal Dombis in China.
At Bluerider ART Shanghai, a century-old historic building on the Bund, the exhibition "Deja Vu" features his iconic lines, words and images, which are fused, overlapped, interlaced and juxtaposed.
The inherent variability of the combination of different elements is calculated based on several large image databases that he has built over the years.
Dombis graduated from the Engineering Department of the University of Insa in Lyon, France, and graduated from the Computer Art Department of Tufts University in the United States. He creates unstable and dynamic visual works and deals with the excessive repetition of technical processes.
The "irrational geometry" series is characterized by stitching lines of different colors together, regardless of their length-from a few centimeters to tens of meters.
56-year-old Dombis said: "People can extend a line in all directions, with many potentials and changes. A line is more than just a line: it is a complete story. It may even be a human story."
His latest work "I am not a robot" presents a series of artificial intelligence faces composed of thousands of real faces of different skin colors, races, ages and nationalities, deliberately confuses the boundary between reality and virtual space.
Located in the Lujiazui Harbour City Exhibition Center in Pudong New Area, the 80-meter outdoor art work "Shuanglian" may be the artist's interpretation of randomness and unpredictability.
The glass installation includes two large panels. On the one hand, there are randomly printed colors. On the other hand, it is completely white. Visitors can see the diffusion of thousands of line and curve shapes, forming two different energy streams, radiating to all the surrounding urban spaces.
“The feature of this artwork is that random lines of random colors spread layer by layer. Each layer is manually selected and adjusted to produce a different rhythm,” Dobis said.
At the same time, images of pedestrians, vehicles and streets are reflected on the glass curtain wall, creating a flowing and dreamlike urban scene.
"Déjà vu" by Pascal Dobis
Date: Until January 29 (closed on Monday), 10 am to 7 pm
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