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Wet Cookie Floor — Virtual solo presentation by Yannick Val Gesto at Private Viewing "Sorry for slide 4, my camera fell out of my hands." —Yannick Val Gesto December 16, 2020 – February 5, 2021 Exhibition soundtrack by 0comeups 🔗 in stories 👀 @yvalgesto @0comeups_typebeat #yannickvalgesto #0comeups #newbebispace #personalspace #privateviewing #privateviewing4 #got #khaleesi #artificialintelligence #terminator #skynet #dystopian #cookie #virtualexhibition #ofluxo #ofluxoplatform @ofluxoplatform https://www.instagram.com/p/CJqwMhplNhJ/?igshid=akuu5omiw7dv

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The Monstrous Bouquet — Group show curated by #MireilleTap at Arnhem's #Omstand, which ran Sep 12-Oct 18, 2020 w/ #JosefinaAnjou #SjefvanBeers #LinnéaGerrits #ThijsJaeger #RobGrootZevert #RobinKersten #MargaKnaven #BinKoh & #SuminLee (#ComfortBall) #LuciaLeuci #JurgisLietunovas #ClairevanLubeek #RebaMaybury #ChristianThomsen (#Fjorsk) #YannickValGesto @bitbossy @omstand_arnhem 🕯 #Arnhem #groupexhibition #groupshow #sculpture #painting #installation #contemporaryart #ofluxoplatform @ofluxoplatform (at Arnhem, Netherlands) https://www.instagram.com/p/CH0U5Vqlr_C/?igshid=w1d7nnots2u5

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Wet Cookie Floor at Private Viewing December 16, 2020 – February 5, 2021 Full documentation and text at O Fluxo. (This project is part of an on-going series of staged documentation of virtual exhibitions.)

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Imperfect Butterflies September 13, 2019 – October 12, 2019 Solo show at CINNNAMON, Rotterdam. wayfast Feel the fucking system, be brave, present complicated kiss non integratie 2019 acrylic on canvas 120 x 160 cm “Val Gesto’s work has always been characterized by both information overload, and a desire for simplicity. The net’s rich content has a dark side: digital obesity. FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), too much of a good thing. A Digital Detox is required: dealing with the overwhelming flood of visual information sometimes requires a radical intervention.

Val Gesto is increasingly focusing on this line in his work. In his words: “Away from FOMO, away from fixations, away from information overload.” Also: away from the internet-based source material. The drawings that form the basis of his new work –paintings!– were made on a whiteboard in a homely environment – in Val Gesto’s own home. It doesn’t get much more personal.

Val Gesto drew simple doodles on his whiteboard, unpretentious, at random moments during the day or evening. Made in the moment, ready to be wiped out as easily as they came to be. The charm of a clumsy, quasi-amateurish “outsider” aesthetic that we know from Val Gesto’s deviant art appropriations is still present, albeit coupled with a much more personal touch.

‘Meditation, Love’. ‘Fixated mind creates a prison box’. There is a therapeutic theme running through these works as if the artist invites us to join him in a meditation group session. Or laughing therapy. There is a sense of reconnecting to the ‘real’, but it is not without friction. the wilfully naive happiness that Val Gesto seeks to express seems to disintegrate on the canvas. The figures are happy, but unsophisticated, tough and fragile at the same time. Val Gesto paints humanity’s current state: playground on the remnants of a digital disaster. The personal is, sometimes, very universal indeed.”

excerpt from the exhibition text written by PD Full press release here

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CLOSE BOTH EYES TO SEE is an artbook that brings together a large collection of drawings, sketches and collages I’ve made in the past few years. It also includes a new series of virtual photography and a six page interview by Leon Sadler. CLOSE BOTH EYES TO SEE 21 x 30 cm 170 pages Blue fore-edge Edition of 100 Published by Chambre Charbon, Boris Détraz © 2019 Yannick Val Gesto Sold out, few copies still available at stockists, f.e. Battcoop Press Release and feature on O Fluxo here

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Idol (idle) 2019 8 minutes 5s 1920 x 1080p A video piece about virtual characters entering a state of awareness. Shown at De Biënnale Van België, 21/06 - 30/06/2019, Floraliënhal, Gent. Concept and production by Yannick Val Gesto Soundtrack by 0comeups Full video here