"Portraying figures in restrained interiors or expansive landscapes, the works in The Space In Between evade attribution to a fixed space and time. The works are developed in collaboration with artificial intelligence, but not as mere tools of image generation. Instead, Von Wolfe treats the AI as an errant interlocutor - producing a flood of visual propositions, outliers, and uncanny hybrids. From this visual delirium, the artist isolates moments of particular psychic intensity, reworking them by hand in oil with classical precision."
"Compositional elements surrounding the figures, such as toy trains, houses or pearls stand out for their specificity and alluring strangeness, yet remain paradoxically resistant to interpretation. Alluding to a narrative through meticulously detailed forms, each painting hovers over the boundary between the realist and the magical, conjuring the space of profound psychological tension. As the artist notes, "I'm interested in the space in-between things. It doesn't matter which era the objects in the paintings come from, they could be a contemporary jet or a bird cage.""
New paintings merge AI-generated imagery with meticulous oil painting, treating artificial intelligence as an errant interlocutor that produces visual propositions, outliers, and uncanny hybrids. From that visual delirium, particular moments of psychic intensity are isolated and painstakingly reworked by hand with classical precision to produce a mythic realism emerging from machine subconscious and instinctual logic. Specific compositional elements—toy trains, houses, pearls—appear with alluring strangeness yet resist fixed interpretation. Each painting hovers between realism and magic, generating profound psychological tension. A harmonised palette links works into a subtly altered world where physical space and shadow behave enigmatically, as in Golden Blaze.
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