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seductive GROTESQUE
About the Project |
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The series Seductive GROTESQUE presents monuments that commemorate the drama of everyday life. These are contemporary reinterpretations of the sculptural tradition of the allegorical figure, re-imagined here in the form of virtual sculptures. In the allegorical work, abstract ideals and virtues are personified in the idealized body. Physical beauty itself stands for rarely attained virtues. The grotesque, on the other hand, brings the body back to earth, to the corporeal and visceral. Exaggerated faces distorted with emotion and grotesque blemishes on the skin of the figure – like bruises left by a rough hand – record history on the material and embed the drama of life on the body itself. The sculptures and images in the Seductive GROTESQUE series are made using the same formal process associated with the making of actual sculptures, but they do not exist in physical form, they are computer-generated objects made visible as artificial photographs and brought into the 3rd dimension through Augmented Reality. The human sized figures are presented in large framed photographs (72” height) set on the floor and leaning on the wall. In the second part of the installation, the digital forms coexist with the physical world. Using an Augmented Reality App on smartphone, viewers can interact with the virtual sculpture in the real space of the gallery. Like traditional sculptures, the figures exist in three dimensions, and viewers can move around them and view them from any angle by pointing a smartphone to the sculpture base. |
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