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Arquà Manuscript Tapestry I

Arquà Manuscript Tapestry I
by Luca Gruber Germany

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The debut work of BGGB Studio, the collaborative practice of Sara Bologna & Luca Gruber, is an inquiry on speculative evolution through the means of AI, inspired by medieval bestiaries. The studio presents the centrepiece of the collection, the Arquà Manuscript Tapestry. Speculative evolution is a common trope in sci-fi literature, focused on hypothetical scenarios in the evolution of life. What would animals look like in the far future on Planet Earth, long after humanity has vanished? With Earth’s ecosystems undergoing extreme transformations due to millennia of unchecked evolution, climate shifts, and new symbiotic relationships, new species will emerge.

This imaginary journey in Time is ideally entrusted to Artificial Intelligence, which, just like pre-modern explorers of exotic lands, reports (more or less) reliable descriptions of what it finds on this unknown Earth, eroding the treshold between perceived and imagined reality. Another generative Artificial Intelligence is then asked to translate these descriptions from text to image. Similarly to what happened in the Middle Ages in the compilation of Bestiaries, the passage from text to image through AI also involves frequent loss of information, and remixes of stock repertories of familiar animals. On a deeper level of the analogy with the Middle Ages, the work aims to trigger a reflection
on the nearly eschatological sense of the creative practice. If today we delude ourselves about the scientifiability of the cosmos through technology, the medieval conception of the world was able to embrace the magical and the miraculous instead as the natural implication of the physical realm, which in turn was intrinsically symbolic because it mirrored a superior reality. Prodigious creatures like the amphisbaena and the manticore, for example, were natural realities that man plainly was not meant to experience. They might seem monstrous but not necessarily “unreal”.

Jacquard Woven Tapestry, 100% produced in Italy

Dimensions LxWxH	3x140x220cm (1x55x87'')
Weight (kg)	3.0
Production Year	2025
Material	Cotton, Cotton Backing, Viscose
Discipline	Textilework
Color	Forest Green
Design Class	Limited Editions

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Dedicated to the creation of sacral quality in his objects, Gruber's work spans a variety of product categories in a continuous dialogue with craftsmanship excellence, traditional manufacturing techniques and refined materials. His narratives arise from the poetic exploration of materials and from mythological and anthropological imagery. His practice is rooted in excellence. He matured a sensibility towards high-end craftmanship during his years of apprenticeship at Bodo Sperlein’s and Ini Archibong’s studios, before opening his namesake studio in 2022. His current collaborations include Carl Auböck and J. & L. Lobmeyr. Through each of his objects, Gruber attempts at realising tangible phenomena of poetry: in contrast to our fast-paced era, he celebrates care and dedication, that of the craftsmen who refine every detail of his pieces. Carving, funneling, welding, polishing odes to men’s labour and skills.