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| Allison Human, The Mystery of Life, 2024 |
The Forest Lawn Museum will open a group show of Filipino-American art next month. Among the works is muralist and street artist Allison Hueman's The Mystery of Life, an AI-assisted painting inspired by Ernesto Gazzeri's 1928 marble sculpture at Forest Lawn. Gazzeri's metaphysical monument, sometimes regarded in the context of camp taste, features in a 1964 Garry Winogrand photograph.
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| Hueman's digital photo of Ernesto Gazzeri's The Mystery of Life |
Hueman replaced Gazzeri's figures with Filipinos and turned to AI to simulate traditional Philippine costumes. The result was an "all around mess of what a robot thinks Filipinos look like. And funny enough, the weird AI mashup of images actually felt familiar to me, like it was showing me how I view my own identity as an American-born Filipino…just overall kind of blurry and trying to make sense of it all. "
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| Detail of Hueman's The Mystery of Life |
"Filipino California: Art and the Filipino Diaspora" runs Apr. 20–Sep. 8, 2024 at the Forest Lawn Museum, Glendale.
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| Garry Winogrand, Forest Lawn Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1964. Museum of Modern Art |
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