Galloire, a contemporary art gallery has opened a new physical space in City Walk, Dubai with it’s first group exhibition, <I’M NOT A ROBOT>. The exhibition features a collection of renowned international artists with works exploring human connection in a digital age. It exemplifies it’s relevance, given our reliance on technology to maintain communication throughout the pandemic.
The exhibition, which opened on 8th of Feb, 2022, brings together six leading artists that includes Daniel Canogar, Anne Spalter, Xavi Sole Mora, Jonathan Monaghan, Jonas Lund, and Addie Wagenknecht. They are the pioneers in their respective fields, working at the frontier of digital art and its intersection with traditional art.
Daniel Canogar’s site-specific art installation Dynamo has been showcased at Expo 2020 Dubai as a centerpiece of the Spanish pavilion. With his artistic masterpieces in Galloire, Daniel focuses on the relationship between textiles and screens showcasing screens as a modern form of textiles. He says: “My artwork is an attempt to materialize the digital, to give it a face, as a way of helping me wrap my mind around the intangibility and ever-expanding depths of the electronic realm we are surrounded by.”
Speaking about the exhibition, featured artist Addie Wagenknecht, said: “In a time where meme-based cryptocurrency is using up the world’s grid and art is being slashed from every major budget line in exchange for border walls and tax cuts, artists who are in discussion with technology but more specifically are able to contextualize where our bodies belong in the future of art and tech, and how we engage with consumers.”
Galloire’s first show was presented in full photo-realistic VR and also allowed viewers, using AR, to bring the works into their homes to view on their own walls. As mentioned to us, there are some major NFT announcements on the way for Galloire.
Explaining the digital inclination of the first exhibit of Galloire, Edward Gallagher, the founder of the gallery says, “With an exhibition which explores the balance between online and real life, between the physical and the digital, it seemed a great opportunity to allow that work to manifest in a new physical space.” Speaking about the artwork Traceback , he says, “This work explores the monotony of the locked up lives in the pandemic. How machines dominate and rule your life and tells you when to wake up. The only escape you have is the dream and yet the machines wakes you again and you must get up and go back to your routine.” That’s a harsh reality of today, but exhibitions so we’ll thought and expressed with art can lead towards a turning point and pave a path towards a holistic development of world in a balanced manner.
<I’M NOT A ROBOT> will be open to the public until 28th Feb, 2022 where you can witness all these extraordinary pieces of work by such exceptional artists. The works will also be accessible via Galloire’s website at www.galloire.com.