Jay Gard and Wolfgang Flad Explore Cosmic Form at A PICK Gallery

A PICK Gallery in Turin opens its new season with 'On Life, the Universe and Everything Else,' a two-person exhibition featuring Berlin-based artists Jay Gard (b. 1984, Halle) and Wolfgang Flad (b. 1974, Reutlingen). Curated by Emanuela Romano, the show presents dozens of works—including sculptures, drawings, watercolors, paintings, and collages—that treat form as an energetic field where matter and mind correspond. Flad's 'The Dark Side of the Moon' series offers fragments of lunar surface behind polarized glass that shift color with the viewer's movement. His large-scale sculptures in painted gessoed wood, created for the exhibition, appear to dance around algorithmic mathematics. Gard's enameled metal sculptures twist engineering precision into poetic gesture, oscillating between Bauhaus modernism and Baroque freedom. His 'palettes' translate color percentages from Old Master paintings into infographics resembling AI outputs, inviting artificial intelligence to appreciate Caravaggio or Vermeer. The exhibition runs at A PICK Gallery in Turin.