Renata Janiszewska, 2022
Le Nid du Duc
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Sounds and visuals by the artist
The god Dionysus famously asked King Midas: "what is your fondest wish, oh mighty one?" "Why of course, I want everything I ever touch to turn to GOLD!", he thundered.
Now dozing drunkenly in his vaulted chamber of stained glass, manic shafts of hot pink light agitate his senses. He craves the cool, silky shade of his garden - its' swirling fragrant tendrils, moist fat roses and feathered trees.
Sensing peril, the garden awakens. The king cannot open his door! He shatters his windows with gold bricks, he expands, explodes, and metamorphosizes into a colossal orbiting disc of 22 karat madness. He sees, as his eyes turn to golden dust, the sweet beckoning green of the grass, the subtle colours of the flowers.
For artists, new media can create two things. The first is a novel set of tools to represent established visual ideas; the shiny new oil paints of the Renaissance led to shiny new renditions of the Baptism of the Virgin. The second is the realization that new materials create new art forms, which both annihilate and embrace the old ones. Picasso fractured the constructed object-in-space of the Renaissance, thanks to the museums. Now, not lapis lazuli in linseed oil, but light, not found objects, but found digital configurations. The unfolding of art through time is both metaphorical and simply concrete. A work of digital art starts at 0:01 and finishes at 1:22 and we can prove it. Can the matter of art be created and destroyed?
My work is an ongoing meditation on the shape of this question. My vocabulary of metamorphizing forms, textures, colors and paradoxical spaces may suggest some soaring metaphysical intelligence, or a small moment on an ancient forest floor where the heroine is getting her nails very dirty digging into a story.
I create my own soundtracks, and animate my own images. Forms, sounds and time appear as a single organism to the viewer, but appearances are deceptive. They are a result of my method - "Disegno" as they used to call it.
History
- May 1, 2022 at 9:43 PMReserve price set for Ξ 0.5500 ($1,009.15) by Renata Janiszewska
- May 1, 2022 at 9:43 PMTransfer from Renata Janiszewska to 1stDibs Marketplace
- May 1, 2022 at 9:42 PMMinted by Renata Janiszewska
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