Very Charming Animals: Humans
Augustin Rebetez
Label Rapace
English
Hardback
Edition of 800
72 pages
220 x 330 mm
2024
ISBN 9782940695270
Augustin Rebetez has always been fascinated by teeth, mouths and jaws, no doubt because that’s where the cries of revolutions come from.
In the work “Very charming animals – HUMANS”, he explores artificial intelligence and manipulates algorithmically-generated portraits, creating fictitious human beings who he then subjects to bloody artistic surgery with Photoshop.
Which is more monstrous, the artificial intelligence or the artist’s stupid, manual labor?
Halfway between reality and fiction, digital and DIY, creepy and darkly humorous, Bruce Gilden and Cindy Sherman, these portraits show an unhealthy, polluted humanity reduced to just another animal.
Funny, powerful and hard-hitting, this work is highlighted in an elegant book with radical graphics that reinforce the darkness, brutality and strength of this series of images.
Produced with the support of the Friends of Espace Courant d’art in Chevenez and Pro Helvetia.
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About the Artist
Augustin Rebetez (b. 1986, Switzerland) creates expansive, multi-layered installations from the most diverse media to achieve a poetic blend of total art. Since 2009, he has exhibited his work all over the world including the Sydney Biennale, the Rencontres d’Arles, the SESC in São Paulo, the Daegu Photo Biennale, the Tinguely Museum in Basel or the Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale. He received different elegant awards, including the Vevey International Photography Prize, the Swiss Art Awards or the Prize Fondation Latour. Most of his books are now published by Label Rapace. Often abroad, he is based in a small village in the Swiss countryside, where he uses his large house as a studio and open artistic residence.
https://augustinrebetez.com/
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About the Publisher
Label Rapace is an independent structure that aims to promote raw and sensitive artistic projects by publishing books and releasing tapes or lps. Based in the deep Switzerland, Label Rapace publishes artists’ books, poetry, backroom manifestos and comics for disillusioned adults.
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