Das Kunstwerk Der Zukunft 2.0 at FWR Gallery, Berlin скачать в хорошем качестве

Das Kunstwerk Der Zukunft 2.0 at FWR Gallery, Berlin

Opening performance with Cornelius von Jackhelln. Gallery press release: We are very pleased to announce the visionary exhibition entitled „The Artwork of the Future 2.0“ by Berlin-based painter and multimedia artist DENNIS RUDOLPH. The staging of a unique fusion of traditional media and digital technologies will take place in the gallery’s spacious rooms. The audience is invited to enter a utopian world through the classic panel painting. At the centre of the exhibition is the work entitled „Frieze of the Gods II (Rise of Eurydice / Fall of Rome)“ (2023). At first glance, it is an 8m-long canvas on whose surface a superficially abstract weave of broad brushstrokes is depicted. The brushstrokes are sometimes longer, sometimes shorter but always powerfully drawn and remain monochrome in their singular colour trajectories. Slightly curved, they seem to follow the contour of an invisible logical form. The artist has applied the oil paint in a strikingly impasto manner and so this painting resembles a tactile relief. The heavy scent of the paint wafts into the exhibition space and beguiles not only the visual but also the olfactory senses. Everything in and about this panorama of painting grabs the real senses of the exhibition visitor with an irresistible attraction and its vehement flow. And yet, between these „land zones“ of impasto paint stand the lucid surfaces of an atmospheric blue. These „empty spaces“ seem like small windows that offer a view of the endless firmament of the sky. The association with the ceiling paintings of baroque churches is awakened. It is painting in virtual reality that has changed the stylistic means in a refreshing way, as Dennis Rudolph paints with brush and oil paint on canvas in real analogue life or as described at the beginning. The current technological conditions that man has created for the existence and experience of art are also changing art itself. Thus, painting in virtual reality – on the border between presence and absence – is one of the central dichotomies in Dennis Rudolph’s work. In his search for ways to give digital brushstrokes back their materiality and transform them to „our analogue side“ of reality, Rudolph has begun to paint sections of his virtual works in a thick impasto technique with oil paint on canvas. (see above) Using an augmented reality app he developed, which visitors download onto their smartphones, the digitally painted figures in augmented reality emerge from the paintings exactly in line with the sections Rudolph painted in oil. At this moment, the painting loses its abstraction and we realise that the physical painting is part of a larger visual digital whole. In Dennis Rudolph’s „Frieze of the Gods II“, the immaterial messengers of Greek mythology perform a dramatic choreography. And because, according to the artist, „anything (is) possible in the vital world“, Eurydice also succeeds in her ascent, which, according to the Greek myth, she was denied because her lover Orpheus could not withstand the test set for him. AR now makes the experience of the transition from one reality to another possible, so that the „underworld“ alone is perceived as „another reality“ – e.g. as VR=virtual reality. And so Eurydice can – according to allegorical understanding – „ascend“, i.e. wander through the realities.