Matisse Passes Through Me 7.3.3 - 1
Matisse Passes Through Me 7.3.3
Medium
UV pigment on birch and white oak panel with acrylic ground, with Non-Fungible Token .PDF file
Size
30 x 22.5 x 2 in.
Date Created
2021

Claudia Hart’s Digital Combines reinterpret classical memento mori, traditionally a means of contemplating the passage of time and cultural decay. In a nod to Robert Rauschenberg, Hart has appropriated the term he created for his version of “expanded painting,” that combined sculptural and painted elements together in one work. In a parallel construction, Hart combines a physical work with its digital simulation, mixing a painting with an image file that also holds the Combine’s “meta data” into a single conceptual work. Hart’s Digital Combines are an assessment of our current moment, asserting a new version of authenticity: painting for the age of the computer. Hart’s Combines comment on the “non fungible” nature of the NFT. In what has been called a “flirtatious simulation of forgery,” She uses computer modeling to render copyright protected works by Modernist patriarchs— Picasso, Matisse, and Morandi—in a parallel symbolic space. Meticulously composed by hand, using custom software, and re-interpreted with her own attention to color, light, and surface, we understand these works as dreamlike and disembodied, intermingling the physical world with an imaginary VR game space. Each unique work is generated from a JPEG, created with a computer-driven airbrush machine, and using archival pigments on rare hardwood panels. As appropriations themselves, these works toy with the issues of copyright that date their origins to the Modernist response to photography.


Courtesy of the artist and bitforms gallery.

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For more information contact: info@Interreality.art.

Interreality: an expansive art exhibition bridging the traditional and digital art worlds through the presentation of works by 35 artists that span the physical-to-digital spectrum.


For more information contact: info@Interreality.art.

Date
Oct 14, 2023
Venue
5500 Wilshire Blvd
Location
Los Angeles, USA

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Mieke Marple
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