About.

Largesso is a small, independent company that runs Gesso, a taste-driven mobile app for discovering art, and Presso, a web tool that lets artists and curators place a small selection of their work directly into Gesso.

Why

Most of the work that would move you, you will never see. There is too much of it, and the surfaces that show it are run on advertising or sales incentives that do not reward the slow, idiosyncratic pull of a personal eye. Gesso optimises for the opposite: the longer you look at something, the more we learn about how to surface the next thing.

How it works

Open Gesso and the app starts showing you artwork — paintings, sculpture, photography, street murals, and contemporary digital work — sourced from museums, galleries, and independent artists. The longer you linger on something, the more weight that signal carries; if you save it, more; if you dismiss it, less. From that quiet stream we build a private vector representation of your eye, which becomes the basis for what comes next. The taste profile is anonymous — a random identifier on your device, not an account.

Where the work comes from

Every artwork in Gesso has a named institution or artist behind it. We ingest only from sources that publish a channel we can read — documented APIs, partner data feeds, IIIF, or partner-blessed CMS endpoints — and we record the licensing basis we relied on per source. The whole list is at largesso.com/sources, alongside the channel, the basis, the evidence URL, and the artwork count per source. If you want to see how we work with institutions, that page is the answer.

Where to reach us

General contact: support. Institutional partnerships and takedowns are covered on the institutional page. Privacy questions are covered on the privacy page.