In “Other Studio,” I respond to a fundamental shift that has been reshaping the landscape of contemporary art for years — a shift now intensified by the rise of artificial intelligence. It is a move away from the elite practice of masters toward a more open, democratic field, where almost anyone can become a co-author and a bearer of cultural narrative.

The works presented here, created with the use of AI tools, refer to classical painted scenes and place them within the setting of film sets or domestic, amateur studios. In these spaces, art enthusiasts experiment with transforming images by old masters such as Rubens, de Heem, and Reynolds. The canon becomes a living source of inspiration — flexible, open to change, and shaped by personal visions.

The contemporary figures appearing in these scenes — photographers and filmmakers documenting phantasmagorically transformed works — raise questions about the role of the artist in the reality of a new medium: artificial intelligence. They also highlight the process-based nature of art itself. The frames of the images, at once classical and touched by elements of technological modernity, such as the motif of the NVIDIA chip, comment on the meeting of different worlds: tradition and innovation, institutional structures and individual creative acts.

In this context, “Other Studio” looks at the democratization of contemporary image-making — a phenomenon made possible by the potential of artificial intelligence. AI transforms the artistic landscape into a broad, networked fabric of individual creative gestures, together shaping a new iconography.

PROJECT INSPIRATIONS:

PICTRE NR 4  Jan Davidsz de Heem, Still Life with Peonies Cherries and a Pocket Watch (1655-65) / Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Public Domain

PICTRE NR 7 Sir Joshua Reynolds, The Ladies Waldegrave (1780) / National Galleries of Scotland, Public Domain

PICTRE NR 11 Rubens, Saint George and the Dragon (1606) / Moseo del Prado, Public Domain

PICTRE NR 13 Caspar David Friedrich – Wanderer above the sea of fog (1818) / Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg / Public Domain

PICTRE NR 17 Jan Thomas  – Court table at the time of Emperor Leopold I (1666) / Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna / Public Domain

* Images created using artificial intelligence tools.