Patrick Tresset: "Animals, Man, Machine: Artificial Studies. - Human Study #2
Patrick Tresset is known for his performative installations. In those, robots participate as drawing machines, developed by the artist himself.
In his work, Tresset explores human characteristics. It reflects recurring ideas that are closely connected to being human like childhood, possessiveness, nervousness, as well as the need to tell stories and set examples.
Tresset’s exhibition Human Study #2 for the donumenta e.V. is inspired by the baroque idea of the Vanitas. His installation uses a variety of animal specimens by the Natural History Museum Ostbayern. A nervously drawing robot draws a seemingly endlessly updating Vanitas image. The robot is based on Tresset’s style and technique but the machine acts like an independent artist who produces autonomous interpretations. The audience can observe the robot while it draws several arrangements of the artefacts.
Patrick Tresset
*Noyon, France. Master of Philosophy for Art and Technology at the Goldsmith College in London, lives and works in Brussels.
Dates
Exhibition opening:4 June 2024, 6:30 pm
Animals, Man, Machine: Artificial Studies - Human Study #2
POP UP-Room, Degginger, Regensburg
Speeches by:
Dr Astrid Freudenstein,Mayor of the City of Regensburg
Regina Hellwig-Schmid,Artistic director of donumenta e.V., curator
Artist Talk & Podium
4 June 2024, 7 pm "Computer-generated art – drawn by robots – idea – arrangement – reception" (in English)
Patrick Tresset, artist
Manuela Naveau, Professor at the University of Arts Linz, curator
Moderation: Clemens Rudolph, chairman of Forum Kreativwirtschaft
As part of the Creative Network Tuesday (industry evening for the cultural and creative industries in Regensburg - organized by the Creative Industry Forum and the Regensburg Creative Authority)
Exhibition period
5 June - 30 June 2024/ Wednesday to Sunday: 2 pm – 7 pm
Matinee & Podium
21 July 2024, 11 am – 1 pm
Natural History Museum Ostbayern, Am Prebrunntor 4, Regensburg
Exhibition of the computer-generated drawings by Patrick Tresset.
Wouter Vahl, director of the Natural History Museum Ostbayern
Barbara-Sophie Höcherl, artist
Elisabeth Peterlik, artist
Moderation: Regina Hellwig-Schmid
