Exhibition
From February 18–28, 2023
Robbie BARRAT, 2018 - 2020
58 rue Chapon, 75003 Paris
The gallery will be closed from December 21, 2024 to January 1, 2025
+33 6 60 22 25 02
58 rue Chapon, 75003 Paris
The gallery will be closed from December 21, 2024 to January 1, 2025
+33 6 60 22 25 02
Exhibition
From February 18–28, 2023
In 2018, Robbie Barrat created images through artificial intelligence (via GAN neural networks). That same year, he met the SuperRare team pioneering the sale of single edition NFTs. The first work 'minted' on the SuperRare website is the AI NUDE PORTRAITS #1. This work became iconic in the history of art, the first NFT on SuperRare and the first work in the A.I series by Robbie Barrat. A double Genesis work.
Robbie Barrat publishes and sells the first six AI NUDE PORTRAITS of his series on SuperRare. The 7th AI NUDE PORTRAITS is the work that makes up the LOST ROBBIES series... also registered in art history for its incredible story.
Robbie Barrat is then jostled by the NFTs market and his works, the AI NUDE PORTRAIT, the GENERATED LANDSCAPE PAINTING or the LOST ROBBIES, become objects of speculation. Robbie Barrat tries to fight to lower the speculation but the market is stronger. He decides to stop selling his digital works via NFTs.
In 2018, L'Avant Galerie Vossen created an artistic encounter between Robbie Barrat and Ronan Barrot. Confronting the painting of Ronan Barrot, all in matter, to the production of images generated by Robbie Barrat, all in pixels, thanks to an artificial intelligence, was the next step in Robbie's work. Making the painter react to the images and creating a sensitive dialogue between the two creators was the object of the INFINITE SKULLS exhibition at the Avant Galerie. The
Infinite Skulls series consists of 101 works.
In ROBBIE BARRAT, 2018-2020 exhibition, Avant Galerie presents the continuation of the AI NUDE PORTRAITS series - numbers 8 to 14 - created in 2018 and not 'NFTized', the continuation of the INFINITE SKULLS series created in 2018 with Ronan Barrot as well as his AI research and creation of this period.
Sothebys.com
The Lost Robbies have reached legendary status as an early and historic NFT, sought-after by major collectors in the NFT community and traditional art world alike.
Jason Bailey
In 2018, Christie’s beccme the first auction house to bring a piece of AI (artificial intelligence) art to auction. The work is titled Portrait of Edmond Belamy and it is by the French artist collective Obvious. This story has captured the public’s imagination and has been all over the mainstream media. And what the media have told you… well, it is all wrong.
Etienne Gatti
How can we make a computer capable of creativity? How can we give it the capacity to imagine and create something new — as long as artificial intelligence, no matter how developed, is still based on our suppositions of how our own intelligence is built, and therefore condemned to the limits of our own imagination?
Fabrice Bertrand
For Ronan Barrot, because he is human and therefore connected to the world through millennia of memories and sensory apprenticeship, a skull is a meaningful object. Such obviousness is anthropological: a skull is an anatomic part of his and each of his kin’s bodies. It is what literally holds his mind together. Homo sapiens knew as much—in the bony carcasses of preys ...
Art et intelligence artificielle font bon ménage
AFP, October 12, 2019
Robbie Barrat et Constant Dullaart, explorateurs de l’art par algorithme
Arte Tracks, June 07, 2019
A never-ending stream of AI art goes up for auction
The Verge, March 20, 2019
Art & IA : Le début de premières oeuvres majeures
Paul Mouginot, February 22, 2019
« Infinite Skulls » : l'expo qui fait dialoguer art et intelligence artificielle
Usbek & Rica, February 08, 2019
Lecture
Over the past few years, several artists have used the assistance of neural networks (convolutional neural networks, generative adversarial networks) to process information sources to define new generic models. Faced with the normative models of deep learning applied for example to facial recognition, can artists develop new practices and establish a more creative position?
Forum Vertigo, Centre Pompidou, Paris,
February 28, 2020
Lecture
Artificial intelligence and creation is a subject that raises many questions. To discuss it, the Avant Galerie is organizing a conference by Robbie Barrat.
Led by Etienne Gatti.
Schoolab Vertigo, Paris,
February 05, 2019
Round table
Artificial intelligence and creation is a subject that raises many questions. To discuss it, the Avant Galerie is organizing a conference by Robbie Barrat, followed by a discussion between artists, but also a lawyer.
Led by Etienne Gatti.
Schoolab Vertigo, Paris,
February 05, 2019
