Robert Silvers may be the most innovative and accessible artist of our time. He created his densely detailed and exquisitely beautiful Photomosaics™ while still a student at MIT's Media Lab. Photomosaics is a groundbreaking medium that combines fine art, photography and computer graphics and works by arranging thousands of tiny photographs that when viewed from a distance, combine to form a single larger image.

Any artist with photocredits as impressive as those 31 year-old Robert Silvers has amassed in the last 2 years - the covers of LIFE, Sports Illustrated, Newsweek, GEO, WIRED and Playboy´s 45th Anniversary Issue - could lay a credible claim to being an artistic phenomenon. His work has also been the the focus of media attention on CNN, VH-1, NBC, MSNBC, to name but a few. Add to those a list of clients including AGFA, AUDI, CNN, Disney, Fortune, IBM, Lucasfilm Ltd, MasterCard International and Paramount Pictures and you will get an idea of the huge audience his art appeals to.

Though the idea of pictures of pictures and photomontage are not new, Silvers has uniquely combined his own ingenious ability to develop software, the availability of digitized photos, and an enormous amount of imagination to turn it into a full-fledged art form. A sort of high-tech Pointillism.

Asked what he thinks is the boundary between artist and technician, art and technology, Silvers explains:
"I really want to emphasize that if someone else had my technology, the images they would make would be completely different, just like two different photographers with a camera or two different painters with a paintbrush. Photomosaics is a medium. When photography started, people didn't think it was art. Painters were, like, that's not art, you're just capturing reality.

Where´s the art in that?
"In fact, in the early days of photography, people were just working on the process of capturing an image, and they didn't spend as much time on the content. Similarly, once I perfected Photomosaics, I started thinking about content and putting messages in it".

Is it art?
"Photomosaics can't be defined as either art or not art. It´s just a medium, but it's certainly a rich enough medium that you can make art in it."

1968 Born in New York.
1994 - 96 Studied photography and computer science at
University of Mass., USA.
1994 - 96 MIT Media Lab, Mass., USA.

EXHIBITIONS (* stands for group exhibition).
Nov. 12-18. 1998 European Academy, London
Nov.´98 - Jan.´99 Fabien Fryns Gallery, Marbella
April 13 - 18 KUNSTMARKT Düsseldorf, Fabien Fryns Gallery
April 23 - 27 ART BRUSSELS 99, Fabien Fryns Gallery
June 15 - 21 ART BASEL, Hamiltons, London*
September FIAC, Hamiltons* and Velge & Noirhomme Gallery *
Oct. 7-10 1999 ARTISSIMA Turin, Fabien Fryns Gallery

Oct. - Nov. Photography Triennale, Milan*
Nov. 6-Dec. 19 Velge & Noirhomme Gallery, Brussels
Jan 20-25 ART MIAMI 2000, Fabien Fryns Gallery
March 9-14 ART PALM BEACH 2000, Fabien Fryns Gallery
March 31 - April 4 ART BRUSSELS 2000, Fabien Fryns Gallery
May 5-8 MIART Milan, Fabien Fryns Gallery
June 2000 ART BASEL, Studio Trisorio*
Oct. 2000 - "Painting the Century:
101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900-2000"
Feb. 2001 National Portrait Gallery, London.*
Nov 15-19 TIAF Toronto, Fabien Fryns Gallery*
Jan 17-22 ,2001 Art Miami 2001, Fabien Fryns Gallery*
Feb. 13-19 ARCO 2001 Madrid, Le Case d´Arte, Milan *
May –June UBS Cultural Center-Fabien Fryns Gallery, Marbella
May 9-14 ART Chicago, Galeria Punto, Valencia
October 10-14 TIAF Toronto, Fabien Fryns Gallery*
October Fiac Paris, Galeria Punto, Valencia
January 2002 ART PALM BEACH 2002, Fabien Fryns Gallery *

COLLECTIONS (Selection)
Agfa, Audi, AXA Courtage, Coca-Cola, CNN, DGZ DekaBank, Disney, Fortune Magazine, GEO Magazine, Het Parool, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Library of Congress, Lucasfilm Ltd., MasterCard International, National Geographic, Newsweek Magazine, Maeght Foundation, Ogilvy & Mather, Paramount Pictures, Playboy Enterprises and private collections throughout the USA, Europe and Asia.