MOCRA: Sunday, 3 February 20008
This Sunday, February 3, enjoy a free public opening reception for the new exhibition at Saint Louis University’s Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA)...
"Miao Xiaochun: The Last Judgment in Cyberspace"
The first St. Louis showing of an internationally exhibited Chinese artist who uses virtual reality technology to explore Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel masterpiece from a variety of new perspectives.
Free public opening reception Sunday, February 3, 2008, 3 5 p.m.
The exhibition continues through May 11.
Chinese artist Miao Xiaochun began with a question. Art historian and exhibition curator Wu Hung frames it this way: "What do the figures in Michelangelo’s Last Judgment. . . see at this fatal moment? To Miao Xiaochun, to answer these questions means to enter the painting and to assume the varied gazes of the painted figures."
In order to enter the painting, Miao Xiaochun used three-dimensional modeling software to create a digital avatar of his own body. Then he mapped this model onto all 400-plus figures in Michelangelo’s famous Sistine Chapel painting, thus becoming all of the characters—the divine, the demonic, the saved, and the damned. He has created large-scale digital C-print images from five vantage points in the virtual environment. The exhibition also includes a video created by Miao that enables the viewer to "fly through" the painting. The images and the video blend qualities of cutting-edge technology with sublime and apocalyptic imagery.
"Miao Xiaochun: The Last Judgment in Cyberspace"
The first St. Louis showing of an internationally exhibited Chinese artist who uses virtual reality technology to explore Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel masterpiece from a variety of new perspectives.
Free public opening reception Sunday, February 3, 2008, 3 5 p.m.
The exhibition continues through May 11.
Chinese artist Miao Xiaochun began with a question. Art historian and exhibition curator Wu Hung frames it this way: "What do the figures in Michelangelo’s Last Judgment. . . see at this fatal moment? To Miao Xiaochun, to answer these questions means to enter the painting and to assume the varied gazes of the painted figures."
In order to enter the painting, Miao Xiaochun used three-dimensional modeling software to create a digital avatar of his own body. Then he mapped this model onto all 400-plus figures in Michelangelo’s famous Sistine Chapel painting, thus becoming all of the characters—the divine, the demonic, the saved, and the damned. He has created large-scale digital C-print images from five vantage points in the virtual environment. The exhibition also includes a video created by Miao that enables the viewer to "fly through" the painting. The images and the video blend qualities of cutting-edge technology with sublime and apocalyptic imagery.
Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA)
3700 West Pine Mall on the campus of Saint Louis University
314-977-7170 or http://mocra.slu.edu
3700 West Pine Mall on the campus of Saint Louis University
314-977-7170 or http://mocra.slu.edu
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