Lyrical Convergence — Espen Kluge

Lyrical Convergence is a series of 100 generative artworks, seeded with the same dataset from my earlier Alternatives series. Both use the same data but different algorithms — Alternatives produced more figurative portraits, while Lyrical Convergence pushes into abstraction.

The series was first exhibited in physical and digital form at Kate Vass Galerie in Zurich, and curated by Jason Bailey (Artnome). It was an interesting moment — NFTs shown as artwork alongside fine art prints.

What drew me to this project was the idea of growth: letting previous work become the raw material for something new. The algorithm builds on what came before, and the outputs are something I couldn’t have arrived at on my own.

spiritually enlightened, better than most people

singing weirdly, probably beautiful to some

giving normal people abnormal experiences

superclear when I say it's risky business

hear about his scandal over and over again

good at impressions, bad at non impressions

if that's true, he should have figured it out

it's finally satisfying and it makes sense

*Ravissement, oil on canvai, 1961 by Georges Mathieu*

From Kate Vass Galerie:

The converging lines, which recall the cardiogram emphasis on colours, seem to interrogate the unconscious. Like a living creature on X axis, the linear progression dictates the dark landscape with its unique pace.

The artist adapts the immediate and direct approach to the new algorithm that brings into question the subject's position with respect to the object. Espen exalts it with the projection of his code with the coherent intensity to which the algorithmic execution of fragmentary castellations of lines, fields and colour imparted a maximum objectification. He makes it a place almost independent of the artist's existence, the code, and the manifestation of art itself. His series Lyrical Convergence is insemination in which subjective and objective, rather than being considered antonymous, hold a dialogue and form integration.

Like the European abstractionists, Espen’s works express something personal, vibrant, and entirely imaginative, in other words - lyrical.

All business enquiries regarding the series should be addressed to Kate Vass Galerie.