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Size: 22.2 W x 29.1 H x 1.4 D in
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For this series of prism works has been chosen specifically for religious and mythological images. This explicit connotation can also be found in the work 'Flower Still Life I'. The appropriated original artwork dates back to the 17th century, a time when the vast majority of people believed that nature, like the Bible, was a revelation from God. Some went even a step further, assigning each single element a specific, God-inspired meaning. Both tangible nature and its mimetic representation. Both flora and fauna. Thus the lily could stand for cleanness and purity and so for Mary or Gabriel, grapes for the blood of Christ, the rose for Venus. By placing the flower still life from 1647 behind a geometric grid various new meanings arise. The analog pixels caused by the plastic pyramid structure act as the scrambled image for a suspect. At the same time, the plate seems to function as a protection for the vulnerable. Is this series about censorship? Or about protecting the weak? The contrast between the geometric shapes and the organic representation creates a further significant tension. Just like the paradox between the distorted image that seems to want to hide something and the everyday image of the flower bouquet. Like a Lynchian tension brewing beneath the everyday.
Photography:Photo on Wood
Artist Produced Limited Edition of:3
Size:22.2 W x 29.1 H x 1.4 D in
Frame:Not Framed
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Roberto Voorbij (1974) lives and works in Amsterdam, holds a bachelor degree in Visual Arts and Art History from the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht and has attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he took classes from a.o. Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle during the late 1990s. Voorbij is a multidisciplinary artist, apart from working with ‘ready made’ materials, he works with 3D Software, (digital) collage and video. Besides (national) identity are public space and religion recurring themes in Voorbij's work. The latter interest is motivated by a Catholic upbringing, which contrasts with an ever-increasing secularization in the Netherlands. From this perspective also his 'Artist Portraits' can be interpreted - besides the clear reference to the art world - more spiritually. As a form of animism the question arises whether a work of art itself can become inspired, how the maker resonates and transforms into the creation he or she leaves behind. In addition to a representation by online gallery Saatchi Art, Voorbij is represented by Leontia Gallery in London. In 2020 his work was part of the International Biennial of Asunción, Paraguay. As part of a group show his short ‘Without clear purpose’ screened at Museum of the Moving Image, New York. The next year his short ‘Carte Blanche’ screened at BOMBA Gallery, Moscow. One of his Artist Portraits was part of the traveling group exhibition 'The World of Frida' in the United States until 2022. Further, from 2024-2027 his short ‘Carte Blanche’ will be screened in the elevators of citizenM, Austin, US.
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