All the Sea
History

A project that aims to bring to life the great seascapes of art history. In this “first episode”, Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky’s great seascapes are brought to life through artificial intelligence, animated by a carefully crafted soundscape. The canvases are no longer static surfaces: they become space, breath, time.

Aivazovsky was convinced that the sea could not be painted simply by looking at it. ‘Waves are not copied. They are remembered. They are felt.’ One had to experience it first, then forget it — and only then let it return…

Dostoevsky, looking at one of his storm scenes, wrote that it had ‘a thrill, a perpetual beauty’ — as if the scene were still unfolding, still dangerous, still real.