Proxy

Future Gallery is pleased to present Proxy, a solo exhibition of new paintings by French artist César Piette. Bringing together a significant new body of work, the exhibition examines the increasingly blurred boundaries between physical and digital existence, exploring how contemporary experience is mediated through images, data, and virtual representations of the self. “Since he is not depicting the actual objects but rather their digital representations, he uses a painterly approach to undermine the very efficiency these proxies are built to provide. Primarily engineered for speed, automated replication, and instant legibility, Piette deliberately sabotages the efficiency of stylized airbrush guns, cigarettes, ballerina shoes, or seagulls by counterbalancing them with a meticulous, time-intensive traditional painting process.” “By intentionally incorporating flaws or mistakes and adding splashes, drips, brushstrokes, and marks, he introduces physical friction, a sense of human labor, and human error into an aesthetic designed to entirely deny them.” —Saša Bogojev

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Schöneberger Ufer 59

Berlin, NY