MACHAS

200 TRUNKS, 200 VISIONARIES: Cao Yuxi for Louis Vuitton’s exhibition

To celebrate Louis Vuitton’s bicentennial birthday, Machas Artist Cao Yuxi was invited along with a group of talent to participate in the group exhibition LOUIS: 200 TRUNKS, 200 VISIONARIES.

Using the original flat-top hard case conceived by the brand’s founder in the 1850s as a metaphorical blank canvas, Cao created “Gradual Pattern”, a dynamic, generative artwork inspired by the brand’s aesthetic and patterns.

“As an artist, I am deeply and constantly inspired and obsessed by the classic square tile Damier and Louis Vuitton monogram. I am also fascinated with the variation in colour and the pattern’s graphic elements: the Circle, the Diamond and the Cross,” explains Cao.

“Since all those elements are also fundamental, I re-used them to create generative art in the past. So for this, I pitched three questions: What if the shapes of elements can dynamically morph between each other? What if the pattern can evolve? What does the pattern look like for the Louis Vuitton vessel in the future? In order to answer this, I created this Gradual Pattern’.”

Cao Yuxi artwork and the LOUIS exhibition is now on display the founder’s historic home in Asnières, west of Paris, France, and on the dedicated website
See more of Cao’s work
here.