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For his exhibition at the Palazzo Cini Gallery, David Salle refocuses a custom-designed AI model on an earlier part of his oeuvre, the\u00a0Tapestry Paintings\u00a0(1990\u201391). In doing so, he highlights painting\u2019s ability to collapse multiple temporal realities onto a single plane: \u2018Everything in painting exists in the present tense,\u2019 as he says. The original\u00a0Tapestry Paintings\u00a0were based on 18th-century Russian tapestries, which were themselves modelled after 16th- and 17th-century Italian paintings. This layering of art history now comes into contact with Salle\u2019s proprietary AI model. Organised around cubist-like grids informed by Salle\u2019s signature inset panels \u2013 separate panels cut into and set flush with the surface of the painting, whose presentation of simultaneity has been seen to have anticipated the logic of computer screens \u2013 the painted tapestries become grounds over which the artist composes his distinctive poetic juxtapositions.\u00a0<\/span>Salle has been quick to adopt new technologies into his painting practice throughout his career \u2013 a testament to his belief that \u2018the best way to subvert the dominance of technology is to co-opt it for different ends.\u2019 In the rooms of Palazzo Cini, Salle\u2019s painterly inquiry unfolds against its own historic backdrop.<\/p>\n

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