A portray created by a robotic canine offered for $40,000 at a charity public sale to lift cash for Ukrainian refugees.
The piece, Dawn March, was painted within the New York studio of Polish-American artist Agnieszka Pilat. The canine, “Spot,” is a creation of Boston Dynamics and retails on-line for a cool $75,000.
The public sale occurred Friday evening on the San Francisco dwelling of Olympic gold-medal determine skater Brian Boitano and his husband, singer Franc D’Ambrosio. Proceeds from the present will go on to the Polish Dominican Friars, who're offering support on the entrance strains of the battle.
The public sale was half of a bigger ticketed occasion which has up to now raised greater than $250,000
“Spot and I, collectively we've created Dawn March as a present to assist increase funds for the care of the Ukrainian refugees arriving in Poland,” Pilat mentioned.
“This portray is executed by the robotic’s marching ft, as a lyrical metaphor for the ft of tens of millions of refugees marching in the direction of Poland in hope of escaping the conflict,” she added. “As a Polish artist, I really feel nice solidarity with the Ukrainian individuals, with whom Poland has a shared historical past of preventing totalitarian Russia.”
“It's particularly painful to see photos of outdated individuals marching. They've seen it earlier than. I don’t see how they will quit,” Pilat continued. “If I had been residing in Poland and the Russians got here, I'd slightly die than let the Russian regime harass us and enslave us.”
Pilat, 48, has developed one thing of a distinct segment for herself within the New York Metropolis and Silicon Valley artwork scene for her depictions of robots and different automatons.
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