different views
Artistic contribution to the magazine Springerin, Issue “originalycopy”, spring 2018, Pages 43-47.
About
The departure point for the iteration series “different views” is a work by the Portuguese artist Pedro Cabrita Reis with the programmatic title “A view over the garden #1” (2015). I see the photo of this object circulating the Internet as a node of different forms of appropriation, whether formal in nature, conceptual, or by free association. My main interest is the potential of the material: The digital image of “A view over the garden #1” doesn’t just consist of zeros and ones; like any other work, it also represents the countless possibilities that can be derived from it as well.
In an analytical game in “different views” I extract the outline of the original work and then insert these resulting surfaces back into the image in an act of abstraction. As a free interpretation, I juxtapose this new form with a photo of a Japanese garden—a possible source of inspiration for Reis, his departure point, a more original original. I cannot estimate to what extent the color of the work in the two-dimensional reproduction correlates with that of three-dimensional original. I can only—in a subsequent iteration—perform a color value analysis of the digital photograph. The last step is a view up to the sky. This makes a thematic connection with “A view over the garden #1” and references both the color of the artwork and that of its digital revision.