VestigiumThe Trace
A dense accumulation of fragmented forms gives rise to an uncertain presence, suspended between portrait and matter.
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AUDRY. · Contemporary generative artist · Belgium
CELLARISThe Vestigia
Sixteen portraits drawn from a generative system that never stops evolving. Each work preserves one state selected by the artist and translated into a physical, museum-quality edition.
The New Frontier
Generative art is made by an artist who designs a system, usually written in code, and lets that system produce work with an element of chance. The artist stays in control: they build the system, guide it and choose which results become art.
It is not new. Computer-made art was shown at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts as early as 1968, and the idea of art made by rules goes back to artists such as Sol LeWitt and Bridget Riley. Today it is one of the fastest-moving areas of contemporary art.
AUDRY.'s CELLARIS takes this one step further. The system never stops evolving, so each work is a single moment captured from it, then made physical as a numbered print on museum-quality paper. Digital in origin, physical in your hands.
The Works
NumenThe Presence
A presence seems to form from fractured structures without ever becoming entirely fixed: abstract matter on the point of suggesting an identity.
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ReliquiaWhat Remains
Forms that seem to have survived an unknown transformation, gathered into an almost archaeological presence.
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ProsoponThe Face / The Persona
Two presences emerge from a field of fractured matter, familiar and impossible to identify at once.
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EidolonThe Apparition
Between apparition and dissolution, a face emerges from the material before being absorbed again.
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Anima RelictaThe Remaining Soul
Beneath the fractured surface, the suggestion of a living presence persists.
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PalimpsestLayers of Memory
Layers of visual information overwrite one another without erasing what came before.
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IconoclastThe Broken Image
A monumental presence fractured into an architecture of surfaces: constructed, eroded and broken apart.
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Forma NovaThe New Form
Classical references dissolve into a form that belongs neither to the past nor to the present.
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Homo FragmentaThe Fragmented Human
Identity as an unstable architecture assembled from fragments, ruptures and visual residues.
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Janus NovaThe New Janus
Multiple profiles coexist in one evolving structure: an ancient idea of duality in a generative language.
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AlterThe Other
Two identities share one field while remaining fundamentally separate.
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NascentiaThe Emergence
The instant when abstraction approaches figuration without quite becoming a portrait.
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Anima NovaThe New Presence
An unfamiliar presence emerges from an inherited visual language of portraiture.
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FossilisThe Fossil
A visual fossil: the preserved trace of one state of a system that continues to evolve.
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Fragmented BloomThe Fractured Emergence
An organic presence unfolds between rupture and renewal, never settling into a final form.
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Each work is a limited edition of 8, plus 2 artist's proofs. Every edition is individually numbered and comes with an Artist Certificate of Authenticity signed by AUDRY., and a Production Certificate recording how and where it was made.
- Pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308 gsm, 100% cotton paper
- Mounted on aluminium Dibond, matte finish
- Frameless, or with optional museum-quality framing
- Also available as museum acrylic
- Custom and institutional sizes on request
Prices
| Size | Fine art / Dibond | Museum acrylic |
|---|---|---|
| 80 × 80 cm | €4,000 | €4,400 |
| 100 × 100 cm | €5,600 | €6,300 |
| 120 × 120 cm | €7,600 | €8,600 |
Prices exclude shipping, installation and taxes.
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