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1924 – 2024 : Surrealism is 100 years old!
Welcome ! I am Marko KAVERNI.
I am opening the doors to my universe in celebration of the centenary of the Surrealist Manifesto, published on October 15, 1924.
Surrealist artists sought to reach a “surreality,” a higher state achieved through automatism, spontaneous writing, and waking dreams.
Here, I present the surrealist drawings I created with the generative AI DALL·E 2 by OpenAI, between June and July 2023, alongside the photographs I captured during that period.
On June 1, 2023, I developed an intriguing prompt called ‘Statua Fluida‘. This prompt, designed to generate unique sculptural forms with AI, surpassed all my expectations. By combining automatism and the exquisite corpse technique, ‘Statua Fluida’ seems to immerse the AI in an altered state of consciousness, producing drawings that embody a sense of Eros, an unconscious mind—whether mine, the machine’s, our collective unconscious, or perhaps the “Great Transparent” so dear to André Breton.
I am exhibiting 100 ‘Statua Fluida’ exquisite corpses in the Hall of Frescoes.
In the Petit Salon, you will discover exquisite corpses created with the prompt ‘”‘Virino Klinata Kupolo’.
In the Machine Room, I revisit the development of the ‘Statua Fluida’ prompt when I was drawing with DALL·E on photographs of Dijon (France).
Lastly, I invite you to explore my Pensieve. Through my photographs, you discover my environment and my work with DALL·E.
Head on to the Exit page to learn more about me and to get in touch.
Museums around the world collect the exquisite corpses created by surrealist artists of the last century. These truly astonishing drawings are available for you to explore:
on the Centre Pompidou website
on the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris website
on the Metropolitan Museum of Art website
on the Art Institute of Chicago website
To learn more about Surrealism and the centenary of the Manifesto, I recommend (in French):
this podcast on France Culture
this exhibition at the Centre Pompidou
100 years after its birth, Surrealism continues to resonate, inspiring those who dare to dream, create, and transform reality into a boundless universe.