Botticelli-Grey
By: herausegeben von Sherin Najjar und Stefan Weppelman
Contributors: Botticelli, Sandro, 1444 or 1445-1510; Grey, Michael Joaquin, 1961-; Najjar, Sherin; Weppelmann, Stefan; Gemäldegalerie (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)
Publisher: Buchhandlung Walther König
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Köln
Language: ger; eng
Number of pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9783863350932
Subjects: Exhibitions; Influence; Criticism and interpretation
Other titles: Botticelli, Grey
Description: The Berlin Gemäldegalerie invited American artist Michael Joaquin Grey to choose one of the well-known Renaissance portraits in the museum's collection and produce a contemporary artistic reaction to the work. Grey chose Sandro Botticelli's painting "Simonetta Vespucci" (ca. 1475). The portrait is the basis for the computer generated work "Between Simonetta", which slowly but continuously alters the portrait by means of an algorithmic program, calculating ever-new combinations. Questions arising from this work - of likeness and ideal, of authenticity, temporality and the transformation of the image - lie at the centre of the catalogue. The artist at once thematizes the paradigms of human perception and explores the genesis of the face as a constructive, self-reflexive process.
Notes: Exhibition: Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (3.9.2011-18.8.2012).

Includes bibliographical references.

German and English.