'When Steel Dreams of Code' Featured in artnet's London Gallery Weekend Roundup

Bernar Venet named as a well-established artists innovating a decades-old practice using AI

In artnet's recent article, 'Has London’s Art Scene Hit a Saturation Point?', European News Reporter Jo Lawson-Tancred includes Waddington Custot as one of the stand-out presentations from London Gallery Weekend's fifth year.

The article names AI as a 'tantalizing means for well-established artists to keep innovating a decades-old practice'. Writing about Waddington Custot's 'When Steel Dreams of Code', Lawson-Tancred says: '84-year-old French conceptualist Bernar Venet is known for monumental steel structures of repeated lines, angles, or arcs created via the chance effects of an intentional, controlled collapse. For his latest series of computer-generated compositions, on view at Waddington Custot until July 19, the artist followed in the footsteps of generative artists like Vera Molnar by using carefully parametered code to invite new forms of randomness into flat, wall-hanging works, again without relying on gravity.'

Read the full article here.