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1/ INTRODUCING ROOPE RAINISTO | VACATION May 21st - 24th Our first Verse Solos AI release arrives later this month. Roope’s latest series is bleak, hopeful, light and dark. It hurts. Though also inspires. It’s real life. This thread offers a first look at Vacation. Sale & AL details... show more
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2/ Bleaker than the 9 to 5 For so many of us, vacations are dreams that don’t materialise. Anticipated escapes from reality that end up falling a little flat. For all those preparatory hours spent researching heaven on Earth, the final experience is so often just so…bleak. In the build up to Vacation, we pushed Roope on a more emotive title. We completely missed the point. Vacation is emotive in its blandness. A frightening reality shock in its emptiness. Its vacancy. In addition to the title, AI too plays a role in hammering reality home here. Somehow, the works’ surrealism hits us harder than more photorealistic images might. Roope uses AI to make his work more real. He uses fakeness to reveal the truth.

3/ However, while Vacation may shine a light on some of life’s harsh realities, it also offers a source of optimism. We are not alone. This is normal. This is what it means to be human. And it’s beautiful. We will be going deeper into the series over the course of the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, you can find Luba Elliott’s brilliant essay on Vacation linked at the bottom of this thread.

4/ PUNKS Vacation contains 25 ‘Punks’. While idealism morphs into disquieting surrealism in many Vacation works, the Punks degenerate further into the grotesque. These guys hit us right in the gut. Mangled limbs and mutated faces dominate the compositions. They’re ugly and gnarly. They’re perfectly Rainisto.

5/ RELEASE DETAILS Vacation is a series of 500 artworks. ⬗ PRE-SALE - Tuesday, May 21st ⬗ PUNKS SALE - Wednesday, May 22nd ⬗ PUBLIC SALE - Thursday, May 23rd

6/ PRE-SALE 370 works will be reserved for collectors on an allow list, which will go live in advance of the public sale on Tuesday, May 21st. 360 works will be made available to collectors of REWORLD and Life in West America. A further 10 works will be set aside for other Verse supporters. Collectors on the AL will be able to acquire works from two pools. ⬗ Pool 1 will allow collectors to select a specific piece, first come first served. ⬗ Pool 2 will be a random mint. Eligible AL collectors can view the 370 works on our site. Please DM @verse_solos ‘PASSWORD’ for access.

7/ PUBLIC SALES Punks ⬗ Wednesday, 22nd May ⬗ 25 works ⬗ Ranked auction Public sale ⬗ Thursday, 23rd May ⬗ 100 works ⬗ Ranked auction

8/ PHOTO LONDON We will be exhibiting a selection of Vacation works at @PhotoLondonFair, and hosting an intimate talk with Roope on the preview day. We have a small number of passes available. Please DM @verse_solos.

9/ HARDBACK BOOK We are working with a publisher on a book for Vacation. Please comment on this post with a ✅ to be kept informed.

10/ MEDIA & ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Essays ⬗ Katrina Schwarz (Curator of Special Projects at Whitechapel Gallery) - next week ⬗ Catherine Troiano (Curator of Photography at the V&A) - next week ⬗ Luba Elliott (Curator and AI researcher) - linked below Spaces ⬗ 6th May, 6pm BST - LIWA, REWORLD, Vacation, with Roope Rainisto & @lifeofc ⬗ 9th May, 6pm BST - ‘Provenance Ep. #20’ w/ Roope Rainisto, with @0xalexjbb ⬗ 13th May, 6pm BST - Creative Control: Authorship & AI, with Roope Rainisto & @wubbushi ⬗ 16th May, 6pm BST - Grailers chat with Roope Rainisto about ‘Vacation’ release at Verse, with @sssluke1 Find the spaces linked below 👇

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