artist from Tallinn, Estonia
mirroring physical paint with its digital representations

Mart Vainre


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2024
Paintman: The Pros and Cons of a Two-Faced Mutant
Paintman: The Birth of the Painting Machine and Its Unexpected Enemy Paintman

2023
Masks

2021
Trippin’ In The Uncanny Valley

2020
Untitled
Expanding Man Degrading

2018
Face To Face
Black Bang
Picture Stumbled In Its Title

2017
 Two
Bubbles

2016
Brush Stroke That Has Reached Self-Awareness
Brush Stroke Becoming Self-Aware
Chunck of Paint Without Self-Awareness

2014
Seeing Myself Looking

2011
In The Right Place At The Right Time, Always

2010
Self-Image
Untitled

Paintman


Oil and acrylic on canvas
Installation of 8 paintings, 280 × 560 cm in total
2021–2024
Paintman is a superhero whose superpower is moving between the digital and analog worlds. Each of his limbs is a sculpture made from leftover paint collected from an artist's palette, which has been digitized into a 3D model using photogrammetry. This, in turn, serves as a reference for hand-painted images. While at the beginning of the process, the machine imitates what the human has created, in the final stage, the artist imitates the machine.



Exhibition view of “Allow Yourself to Change. Painting at the Time of Artificial Intelligence”, ARS Project Space, 2024. Curated by Liisa Kaljula. Photo: Päär Keedus.



Exhibition view at ARS Project Space, 2024.