RenA.I.ssance

PAINTING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
di Andrea Ravo Mattoni

Starting on 1st February 2023, Artrust will host a new exhibition in Melano, in via Pedemonte di Sopra 1, dedicated to Andrea Ravo Mattoni, Italian-Swiss street artist known to the public for his large-scale spray replicas of classical and Renaissance art masterpieces.

RenA.I.ssance. Painting and Artificial Intelligence, this is the title of the exhibition curated by Artrust with the collaboration of Andrea Ceresa, inaugurates an unprecedented strand in Ravo’s production that – while maintaining the distinctive cornerstones of his style, namely spray painting and classicism – has led him to confront himself no longer with the great masters of the past, but with a new entity which generates art: Artificial Intelligence.

The works that will be displayed, whether portraits, still lifes or landscapes, will appear to the viewer as plausible in their Renaissance and classical essence, although with some unusual details. Actually, those images are entirely created by Artificial Intelligence. What Ravo does then, is what he did before: bringing them back to the canvas through the spray can. He used to copy Michelangelo and Caravaggio, now he copies the machine-artist.