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<nettime-ann> 14.1. NOME opens Quayola's latest solo show 'Iconographies'


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Quayola – Iconographies

Opening: 14 January 2016, 6pm

15 January – 5 March 2016


NOME

Dolziger Straße 31, 10247 Berlin

www.nomeproject.com


NOME Gallery is pleased to present "Iconographies", Quayola's latest solo show in Germany. 


Quayola’s newest works represent a continuation of an ongoing project that employs computational methods to translate iconic paintings into abstract compositions made of points, lines, geometries, hues, saturations and texts. Quayola's abstract forms become distinct through their power of differentiation, allowing a new visual language to emerge that addresses both object and process. As writer, artist and academic Daniel Rourke suggests, we are invited to active perception: "Iconographies asks the viewer to slash and sunder, to cut and separate, to hack and cleave, to slit, rive, rip, dissect, and disunite with our wandering eyes and reactivated minds.”


The first series of works in the exhibition translates the iconography of Judith and Holofernes into anodized prints that depict abstract formations of the symbolic images. The second consists of a unique edition of three Ditone prints that recreates the "Adoration of the Magi" by Botticelli using complex geometrical forms and colors. In "Iconographies #81-20, Adoration after Botticelli", Quayola translates the geometric points used in the previous work into nine variations of code alongside a text from "Vite degli artitsti" by Vasari. Finally, the exhibition also features "Iconographies #16-01, Venus & Adonis after Rubens", which transforms the "Venus & Adonis" by Rubens into a topography of geometric contours. 


Widely acclaimed for his immersive multi-channel video installations, animated paintings, and large scale sculptures London based artist Quayola merges classical aesthetics with custom built software and computer algorithms to create a space for contemplation in the virtual realm. Quayola has exhibited and performed his work internationally, and in 2013 was awarded the Golden Nica at Ars Electronica for the project "Forms" with co-author Memo Atken. Past displays of his works include a project for the 54th Venice Biennale at the Italian Cultural Institute in London, and exhibitions at National Art Center, Tokyo; Pushkin Museum, Moscow; BOZAR, Brussels; Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; bitforms gallery, New York; and SeMA, Seoul.

More information on the NOME website: www.nomeproject.com

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