Introducing 'Serac'
This major new release presents a body of work created by Matt DesLauriers especially for the V&A’s second Digital Art Season.
Introduced to the museum’s collection by its specialist team of curators, DesLauriers developed a generative system in response, exploring the interplay of line, texture and colour to evoke the fractured forms of glacial landscapes.
The project is available to collect in two forms: a digital collection with a maximum capacity of 1000 via Verse, and a limited edition silkscreen print via Avant Arte.
On the print edition
Discover the works that inspired the edition
Two works from the V&A’s collection shaped Serac. Colette & Charles Bangert began making computer-generated drawings with pen plotters in 1967, and DesLauriers was drawn to the tension in their work: chaotic, fluctuating lines drawn with the exact precision of a mechanical arm, from a topographic mountain range to a meadow of swaying grass.
Discover Grass Series VI (1983) & Coloured Line Study E (c.1983) at the V&A.
GRASS SERIES VI, 83-28-comp-e, 1983. Colette and Charles Bangert
Coloured Line Study E, 1984. Colette and Charles Bangert
Arthur Hopkins’s late-19th-century watercolour specimens, made to test the lightfastness of pigments, offered a different lesson. Part of each sample was shielded from the sun while the rest was exposed, leaving some colours faded and others vibrant. For DesLauriers, long interested in the mechanics of colour, they revealed how artists approached the same questions a century ago.
Discover Specimens of watercolours painted to test the stability of the pigments (1974) at the V&A.
Specimens of watercolours painted to test the stability of the pigments, 1886. Arthur Hopkins
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