Hermitage 2.0, 2021 by Claudia Hart

Hermitage 2.0, 20212021

Red Bombay India ink and pigment on maple panel, NFT registered .PNG file30 x 40 in / 76.2 x 101.6 cm

In Hermitage 1.0 & Hermitage 2.0, Claudia Hart meticulously recomposes the Museum's grand painting halls. The space is home to many European masterworks, yet Hart leaves all frames empty. Composed with custom software and re-interpreted with her own attention to color, light, and surface, the resulting image is dreamlike and disembodied, intermingling the physical world with an imaginary VR game space. Each unique work is generated from a JPEG, created with a computer-driven airbrush machine then printed with archival pigments on rare hardwood panels. As appropriations themselves, these works toy with the issues of copyright that date their origins to the Modernist response to photography.

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