William Mapan Debuts Live Plotter Installation at Art Basel
William Mapan Debuts Live Plotter Installation at Art Basel
🖨️ Code becomes landscape
Artist William Mapan is presenting Paysages Plausibles: Dances on Shadows (DOS) at Art Basel, a live installation that demonstrates how landscapes emerge from algorithmic code.
Key Features:
- Visitors can explore Mapan's generative system, select landscape iterations, and watch them rendered in real-time by a machine plotter
- DOS serves as a deliberate detour from the main Paysages Plausibles series, revealing embedded structures through contour, repetition, and displacement
- The installation examines movements, traces, and residual energies within speculative territories
For Collectors:
- Ten DOS works are available for purchase by collectors unable to attend the fair in person
- Each physical plotter work includes its complementary digital counterpart
- Interested parties can contact sales@artblocks.io for pre-sale inquiries
The exhibition is located at Booth Z13 during Art Basel.
Willam Mapan @ArtBasel Zero 10 Samples from the live plotter series: Paysages Plausibles: Dances on Shadows (DOS) "Where Paysages Plausibles investigates the construction of speculative territories, DOS follows the movements, traces, and residual energies that inhabit them —
Ten Dances on Shadows (DOS) artworks by @williamapan, from the Paysages Plausibles series, are now available for collectors who may not be able to attend @ArtBasel in person. See below for pre-sale inquiries.
William Mapan offers us a new way of looking at the world through Paysages Plausibles, his series for @ArtBasel  A new Journal article details his layered process and frames his work in the context of important artists who have inspired him. Link below 👇 @williamapan
Please contact sales@artblocks.io if you would like to purchase Dances on Shadows (DOS) by @williamapan in advance of Art Basel. Each physical artwork comes with its complementary, dynamic digital counterpart.
Alongside the paintings, a live installation, Paysages Plausibles: Dances on Shadows (DOS), will give collectors a first-hand look at the algorithmic system. Conceived as an excursus, a deliberate detour from the main series, DOS invites visitors to explore Mapan's code, select
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