Artist introduction: Miguel Ripoll

29.1.2025

Miguel Ripoll is a Spanish AI and digital art pioneer and a writer and part of the Spanish NAT, hosted by Espronceda.

www.miguelripoll.art
IG: @studio.miguel.ripoll

Latest project: Grand Tour

Artwork from the series “Grand Tour: East / West” by Miguel Ripoll, 2024-25. 80 cm x 60 cm (31.5 in x 23.6 in). Human-led, AI-mediated iterative adversarial dialogue (based on a custom open-source dataset) and hand-crafted mixed digital media, manually edited, re-compiled, digitally modified, and giclée printed on hand-embellished (ink, pastel, charcoal) archival-grade Hahnemühle cotton paper 350 g/m2. Original signed artwork (not part of an edition).

For the past few months, Miguel has been developing a collection of AI-assisted, hand-crafted sketches on paper, drawing inspiration from the artistic tradition of 18th and 19th-century elite travel, known as the Grand Tour. These works explore contemporary issues such as post-colonialism, overtourism, mass consumption, environmental degradation, migration, and the concept of ‘the other’.

Each piece is the result of a human-led, AI-mediated iterative adversarial dialogue, utilizing a custom open-source dataset blended with hand-crafted digital media. The images are then manually edited, re-compiled, digitally modified, and giclée printed on archival-grade Hahnemühle cotton rag (350 g/m²), with hand-applied embellishments in ink, pastel, and charcoal.

His work has been recently exhibited at Kunstraum Kreuzberg in Berlin, with upcoming group shows in Germany, including Kunsthaus Erfurt (February 2025) and Hyperculturalpassengers, Hamburg (May). Additionally, he has been invited to exhibit commercially in Paris and Barcelona (solo shows) and will hold his first solo museum exhibition next summer.