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The room holds six works created individually or collectively by digital artists who, using Sorolla’s pictorial and personal references, have generated a near abstract creative universe based on data and using CGI (computer generated images) and AI (artificial intelligence) techniques.

In their works, the artists experiment with colour, perception and poetic or abstract narrative to create visual landscapes. Also, through the use of new digital tools and employing AI, they are rethinking artistic practice and imagining new perspectives.”

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“Mina Nogueira
Video, DreamAI, DallE, Kaiber

Automation is on the horizon… Hope and new tools? Fear? Collapse or revolution?…

This video uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a tool to discuss the matter itself, its importance in the world, in the future and in the world of art. The latter is the narrative that is linked to the life and work of Sorolla, with scenes and brushstrokes of the Valencian painter. To achieve this result, a series of real videos are recorded and filtered or manipulated frame by frame by AI. These include reinterpretations of works such as Trata de blancas (Trafficking in Human Beings), Paseo a orillas del mar (Walk on the Beach), Marina and Corriendo por la playa (Running along the Beach).”

Sorolla, diffused light
“Light Laboratory: Jorge Dabaliña, Roser Domingo, Alena Mesarosova, Manuel Ferrer,
Sergio Martín, Emilio Martínez, Trinidad Gracia, Paco Sanmartín, Irene Sánchez and
Carlos García Miragall.
IA video editing

We wonder what Sorolla would have done if he had had the possibilities offered by new digital technologies as an artistic resource. In this video we speculate and imagine Sorolla’s possible perspective in the 21 st century.

Luz difusa (Diffused Light) is inspired by Joaquín Sorolla’s El balandrito (The Little Sailing Boat) but it is an abstract piece, focused on the light reflected on the ocean. Set on the Malvarrosa beach in Valencia, the artwork explores the passing of time and is inspired by the sundial in the Casa dels Bous, in the Cabanyal district. It was created by experimenting with the possibilities offered by AI technologies using Stable Diffusion image generation models.”

Landscape of El Saler
“Mar Aragó and Dolores Furió
3D Laser Scanner and Dot Cloud

Capturing how horses’ legs are suspended in the air as they gallop, how children float in space when they dive into the water, how the sails of boats and the fabrics of dresses change when exposed to the wind or how glimmers of light dance on the water’s surface are moments that could not have been captured without using a camera. Sorolla’s relationship with the camera allowed him to innovate in his viewpoints and to contemplate a new space/time through the eyes of a machine. Photography allowed time to be frozen, revisited and captured in a thousandth of a second. The device’s lens amplified and complemented human vision, opening up new imaginaries and allowing a new layer of the visible spectrum, another reality, to be captured.”

Oils and waves
“Lluís Campmajó Triadó
Digital mixed media, vector collage, programming processing

An exploration of Sorolla’s black and white, colour and textures. A dreamlike journey through the artist’s imaginary that is created in black and white, enhanced and filled with the textures of nature and the sea. A tranquil animation carried by the easterly wind that draws brushstrokes that bare thoughts like a stroll along the shore of the Malvarrosa beach. A deep love for the everyday that celebrates the beauty of the surroundings and draws the vitality of the flowers and movements of his beloved Clotilde, to celebrate how the sea breeze hypnotised her thoughts. A realistic, impressionistic and humanist approach to his most optimistic vision of life.”

Joaquín SoroIA
Layers of Reality. Marcel Bagó, Helena Córdoba
Stable Diffusion

Sorolla’s work is reinterpreted from a digital prism to, through artificial intelligence and based on his works and the universes that inspired him, new creations that retain his style and themes, but which are constructed with new storylines.

We thus seek to identify the most characteristic features of his work: those that remain present in each new interpretation, developing within the stability that makes them identifiable, the ensemble acting as a kind of synopsis of the painter’s work and of his native Valencia, with its beaches and inhabitants and its distinctive light.

The work has been developed through the analysis and reinterpretation of several of the artist’s works using the Stable Diffusion artificial intelligence system, which creates images from text.

Data Color Sorolla
“Experimental Unit. Polytechnic University of Valencia:: Álvaro Sanchis Gandía, Nuria, Rodríguez Calatayud, David Heras Evangelio

The Data Color Sorolla Project is based on one of the foremost elements of Joaquín Sorolla’s pictorial personality: his colour palette. Various studies have concluded that the Valencian artist had a palette of twenty colours in his oil paintings. However, his work is characterised by a broad chromatic range depending on the subject matter. We therefore set out, in the first instance, to analyse what percentage of pure colour remains in his paintings. To do so, we started with the chromatic analysis of 571 paintings in RGB format, divided into six categories: marine, landscape, portrait, architecture, interiors and celebrations. The conclusions are presented in animated minimalist pieces reminiscent of the works of the “Colour Field” movement.

The second study focuses on the representation of the fifteen central colours in different works representative of the six aforementioned categories. The project thus contrasts the pure colours of Sorolla’s palette and their low persistence in his works with the varied colour scheme resulting from his brushstrokes.”