Nicolas Sassoon
Nicolas Sassoon is a Franco-Canadian artist using early computer graphics to create a wide array of pixelated forms and figures, moiré patterns and architectural structures. This focus on early computer graphics is driven by the sculptural, material and pictorial qualities of this imagery, as well as its poetic limitations. Over the last decade, Nicolas has often engaged in cross-disciplinary projects online (Computers Club, Wallpapers, Signals), in electronic music (New Forms Festival), fashion (Balenciaga, UNIQLO, Wings & Horns) and contemporary art. His work has been exhibited in numerous art institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art (US), Vancouver Art Gallery (CA), Victoria and Albert Museum (UK), Centre Pompidou (FR), House of Electronic Art Basel (CH), MU Eindhoven (NL), Chronus Art Center (CN), the Berlin Fashion Week (DE) and the New-York Fashion Week (US).
Last update on 10-03-2023
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Featured Artworks
Composed of digital animations of zig-zagging black bands moving across patterned fields, the OUT MY WINDOWS series by Nicolas Sassoon explores the effects of the persistent presence of electronic technology on our visual experience of the outside world. The windows the artist refers to are both those on his computer screen and the ones from which he sees the world outside his studio. The patterns are geometric but the movements are so smooth that they look like sea waves reflecting the sunlight. The artist suggests a communion of binary grammar and human emotion with elegant and hypnotic animations that get fixed in the viewer’s retina.
OUT OF MY WINDOWS
2022
GIF
Composed of digital animations of zig-zagging black bands moving across patterned fields, the OUT MY WINDOWS series by Nicolas Sassoon explores the effects of the persistent presence of electronic technology on our visual experience of the outside world. The windows the artist refers to are both those on his computer screen and the ones from which he sees the world outside his studio. The patterns are geometric but the movements are so smooth that they look like sea waves reflecting the sunlight. The artist suggests a communion of binary grammar and human emotion with elegant and hypnotic animations that get fixed in the viewer’s retina.
OUT OF MY WINDOWS
2022
GIF
Composed of digital animations of zig-zagging black bands moving across patterned fields, the OUT MY WINDOWS series by Nicolas Sassoon explores the effects of the persistent presence of electronic technology on our visual experience of the outside world. The windows the artist refers to are both those on his computer screen and the ones from which he sees the world outside his studio. The patterns are geometric but the movements are so smooth that they look like sea waves reflecting the sunlight. The artist suggests a communion of binary grammar and human emotion with elegant and hypnotic animations that get fixed in the viewer’s retina.
OUT OF MY WINDOWS
2022
GIF
Composed of digital animations of zig-zagging black bands moving across patterned fields, the OUT MY WINDOWS series by Nicolas Sassoon explores the effects of the persistent presence of electronic technology on our visual experience of the outside world. The windows the artist refers to are both those on his computer screen and the ones from which he sees the world outside his studio. The patterns are geometric but the movements are so smooth that they look like sea waves reflecting the sunlight. The artist suggests a communion of binary grammar and human emotion with elegant and hypnotic animations that get fixed in the viewer’s retina.
OUT OF MY WINDOWS
2022
GIF
Composed of digital animations of zig-zagging black bands moving across patterned fields, the OUT MY WINDOWS series by Nicolas Sassoon explores the effects of the persistent presence of electronic technology on our visual experience of the outside world. The windows the artist refers to are both those on his computer screen and the ones from which he sees the world outside his studio. The patterns are geometric but the movements are so smooth that they look like sea waves reflecting the sunlight. The artist suggests a communion of binary grammar and human emotion with elegant and hypnotic animations that get fixed in the viewer’s retina.
OUT OF MY WINDOWS
2022
Video
The Foundry
Artist Talk: Nicolas Sassoon and Sasha Stiles
14/03/22
Online
Special Artist Talk with Nicolas Sassoon and Sasha Stiles about “Memento Minti”, a group show curated by Filippo Lorenzin and Marie Chatel.
Opening of the exhibition "Memento Minti"
08/01/22
Decentraland
Opening event of Memento Minti”, a group show curated by Filippo Lorenzin and Marie Chatel featuring works created by Nicolas Sassoon, Sasha Stiles, Jisu Choe, Silvio Lorusso and Dancevatar.
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Memento Minti is a group show curated by Filippo Lorenzin featuring works by Nicolas Sassoon, Sasha Stiles, Jisu Choe, Silvio Lorusso and Dancevatar, artists who have been exploring the thin line between self-promotion and survival strategy concerning the online presence of artists and creatives making and releasing digital art.
Composed of five rooms and displayed in Decentraland, Memento Minti addresses the psychological and physical toll of narrating your life as if it were an online brand. The works propose an informed perspective on how marketing strategies have changed the way creatives promote and sell works online, inviting artists who have been active before and after the popularisation of NFTs.
“The works propose an informed perspective on how marketing strategies have changed the way creatives promote and sell works online, inviting artists who have been active before and after the popularisation of NFTs.“
(Filippo Lorenzin, curator)