Two Paintings

fall-winter 2023

WebVR
W 720cm x H 480cm x D 960cm
NFT (OpenSea)

Details

Title
Two Paintings

Collection
Fall-Winter 2023

Medium
WebVR (A-frame)

Dimensions
W 720cm x H 480cm x D 960cm

NFT reference
View and buy at OpenSea

Instructions

VR headset
View this virtual space with an Oculus Quest 2 VR headset, or any other standalone VR headset, in VR browser Firefox Reality or Wolvic, both available in the Meta store.

Web browser
This virtual space can also be viewed in any regular web browser on both desktop and mobile devices, by clicking the VR button in the lower right corner of the VR component on this page. On mobile devices you need to approve access to the device motion and orientation sensors on your device.

Rational

In this space, two virtual paintings are shown that are in line with the formalistic abstract working method of modernist painters.
     The painting on the left shows an artificial landscape made up entirely of black lines of the same thickness. The lines that indicate the light rays continue in the shaded shadow of the mountains.
     The painting on the right shows a schematic three-dimensional fighter jet, a folded paper airplane, with its flat projections on the walls and base of the half-open box.
     Both paintings deal with the translation of the immersive space in the world around us into a framed flat surface, one of the main themes in the history of painting. In most virtual representations, such as gaming and metaverse platforms, a photorealistic or magical realistic approach is chosen. These representations emphatically tie in with the abstract formalist tradition of the 20th century modernist movement with the aim of continuing it in the metaverse.


Details


Title
Jet Fighters

Collection
Fall-Winter 2023

Medium
WebVR (A-frame)

Dimensions
W 720cm x H 480cm x D 960cm

NFT reference
View and buy at OpenSea


Instructions


VR headset
View this virtual space with an Oculus Quest 2 VR headset, or any other standalone VR headset, in VR browser Firefox Reality or Wolvic, both available in the Meta store.

Web browser
This virtual space can also be viewed in any regular web browser on both desktop and mobile devices, by clicking the VR button in the lower right corner of the VR component on this page. On mobile devices you need to approve access to the device motion and orientation sensors on your device.


Rational


This VR space shows a simplified 3D jet fighter in a half-open box. As the object is not fully visible, due to the viewpoint of the visitor, 2D projections of the object are drawn on the walls and floor of the box, defining the position of the object. In the souterrain a framed 2D representation of the jet fighters, a 'painting' is shown.
     This artwork deals with the main paradigm in the history of painting: representing 3D immersive sceneries in the world around us in a 2D frame. In contrast with the common photorealistic visual language in computer games and metaverse platforms, this composition is purely abstract and not decorated.