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RCM Galerie is proud to present GEORGE LEGRADY: SCRATCHING THE SURFACE, an exhibition of the Hungarian-born artist’s innovatative digital images from the 1980s to present day.
The show, which opens December 17 and runs to February 16, features an important group of works from the 1980s in which Legrady wrote programs to alter digital images and to critique the manipulation of news and mass-media images. Inspired by the philosophy of semiotics and particularly Roland Barthes, Legrady’s works are likely “the first born-digital photographs to be printed and exhibited as works of art,” according to the art historian Patrick Frank.
The exhibition also encompasses Legrady’s more recent work with images made with AI technology, including tapestries he had woven traditionally in ateliers in Flanders, Belgium.
Legrady, whose work is collected in many museums, including Pompidou Center, Paris, Whitney Museum of American Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others, currently is featured in LACMA’s show Digital Witness and will also be included in the upcoming Le Mode Selon l’IA (The World According to AI) at Jeu de Paume, Paris, opening in April 2025.