(2021) Audiovisual Installation. 1ch 4Κ video| 2ch sound. Dimension Variable.
“Ichographs II – Absentia” was created during the covid-19 pandemic, a time that was defined by the absence of thousands of people.
Ichographs is an audiovisual artwork that uses a color to audio frequency algorithm to investigate the connections between classical aesthetics and the digital practice, revealing a latent version of the old masterpiece. The final artwork is a contemporary amalgamation of the old painting and the modern abstraction methods, a harmonious dialog between the old and the new, the analog and the digital.
List of the paintings used in this work:
- “Arnolfini Portrait” – Jan van Eyck (1434)
- “Self Portrait at Twenty Eight” – Albrecht Durer (1500)
- “The Return of the Prodigal Son” – Rembrandt (1661-69)
- “Girl with a Pearl Earring” – Johannes Vermeer (1665)
- “Madame Monet and Her Son” – Claude Monet (1875)
- “A Bar at the Folies-Bergère” – Edouard Manett (1882)
- “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” – Georges Seurat (1886)
- “Self – Portrait” – Vincent van Gogh (1887)
- “American Gothic” – Grant Wood (1930)