G 9
pigments on unstretched canvas
21 x 29.7 cm
2016
G 33
pigments on unstretched canvas
21 x 29.7 cm
2016
78
pigments on unstretched canvas
21 x 29.7 cm
2016
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ILLUMINATION DRAWING
Technical possibilities enabling the rapid flow and flexible generation of images 1 have encouraged visual artists to use digitalised images, produce image simulations, complex image environments, and interactive image worlds, seemingly limitlessly. Except for one limitation: all these images are in their nature, no more than use of classical- formal knowledge of drawing and practice- particularly of the Renaissance.
The illumination drawings are carefully updated so that old mediums look like new ones- your eyes just can't decide. That a viewer may find artworks they comprise initially unyielding but ultimately seductive is not a paradox. Seduction results resistance, some act of persuasion, which in this case seeks to affirm process against the negative play of appearances and raise the question of optical trickery, although that trickery is completely transparent.
The experience of viewing this artwork created from the most simple of low- tech means is akin to viewing high tech, video and laser spectacle, that appears to be projected on the wall and into the space.
1 With all the consequence, such as manipulation and deralisation of reality. Cf. Wolfgang Welsch, Undoing Aesthetics, London: Sage, 1997, p. 168- 190
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