Tabor Robak 1986

Lives in New York. Works in New York.

Represented by:

Upstream Gallery

Tabor Robak’s work employs computer generated imaging to create videos of invented worlds. Working in programs including Unity, After Effects, Photoshop and Cinema 4D, the artist explores a secondary, digital reality, rendered in what he refers to as a “Photoshop tutorial aesthetic” or a “desktop screensaver aesthetic.” His meticulously produced and filmed environments are cobbled together from sources both sampled and hand-modeled. The works are appropriative, both in their subject matter and aesthetic, using elements purchased and then edited for his purposes. They adopt the visual vocabulary of contemporary video games in order to isolate and comment upon digital space as an abstract fact, while simultaneously pushing up against the increasingly tenuous separation between perceptions of the digital and the real.

Tabor Robak lives and works in New York. Selected (group) exhibitions include the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Serpentine Galleries, London; the 12th Lyon Biennale; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; MoMA: PS1, New York; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; Palazzo delle Esponizioni, Rome; Kunsthal Rotterdam and Team Gallery New York. His work is included in numerous public and private collections, including those of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens; The Hugo Brown Family Collection, The Hague; KRC Collection, Amsterdam; Fondazione Sandretto re Rebaudengo, Turin; Migros Museum, Zurich; and the Yuz Collection, Shanghai. The work of Tabor Robak has been reviewed in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Artforum, Art Observed, Modern Painters, Interview and Mousse.

Artist website: www.taborrobak.com

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Summer in the City - part 2

The summer programming at galleries is always slightly different. No solo shows with household names during the summer, but often group exhibitions. Two weeks ago, we talked about three galleries that offer a platform to recent graduates and new talents. This time, you can read about three galleries that have chosen to present an overview of artists from their programme. An excellent opportunity for visitors to get to know a gallery’s programme in a single visit.

Wouter van den Eijkel

'All Eyes': 25 years of art collecting by Hester Alberdingk Thijm, director of the AkzoNobel Art Foundation

In 2020, the AkzoNobel Art Foundation celebrated its 25th anniversary. Due to the Covid pandemic festivities were postponed for a year. This month the exhibition 'All Eyes' opens in the Art Space of the Amsterdam head office. In September 2020, this anniversary was already celebrated on a smaller scale with the launch of an extensive catalogue in the shape of an anniversary magazine designed by Kummer & Herrman, entitled 'We Are the Collection'.

Manuela Klerkx

The gallery of... Nieck de Bruijn

This week with Nieck de Bruijn (Upstream Gallery)

Oscar van Gelderen

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Artist Talk: Tabor Robak in conversation with Simon Castets

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Norsthstar

FlatEarth.io

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New York Magazine

“Robak models his videos by hand, exploring the medium of CGI the way Michelangelo did marble.”

Kyle Chayka

New York Times

“The result is some new strain of specific object, with its own beyond-radiant palette, seamlessly evolving forms and meanings, and a sense of process and acute attention that belie the view of digital art as slick and impersonal.”