Coordinating major artistic shows via DM is easier than ever now, and Royer’s scrolling means Ando’s first solo show in the United States is now open for business. In our ever-scrolling online lives, Royer quite literally discovered Ando’s work on Instagram, and he thereafter became determined to get the artist into his gallery. “That’ll be at least as a base, then he’ll move back in with acrylic paints.” “ uses a lot of traditional calligraphy ink,” Takeo Royer, gallery manager at Kouri + Corrao Gallery, tells SFR. Ando’s life-sized paintings manage to capture the world’s grandiose scale while remembering its simple, repeating patterns-the work is a reminder that everything down to the cellular level is an art in itself. But Tokyo-based artist Mitsuru Ando takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to our tech-driven dystopia while reminding viewers algorithms already existed within our day-to-day world well before computers. Heck, we might be on the verge of AI writing our film scripts and building our aesthetic pleasures.
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