#strata 4

[sarahyoungwales]

After discovering and writing about David Shearing I was researching some other immersive installation artists I came across Quayola, I am extremely impressed by his work it's captivating, beautiful and seamlessly combines old with new, definitely worth a watch. 

"Strata #4 is a multi-channel immersive video-installation commissioned by Palais de Beaux Arts in Lille. The subject of this work is a series of iconic pieces from the museum’s Flemish collection, focusing specifically on Rubens’ and Van Dyck’s grand altarpieces. Strata #4 is the result of a study and exploration of the paintings themselves, delving beneath their figurative appearance and looking at the very rules behind the composition, colour schemes and proportions of each piece. It is a precise process aimed at creating new contemporary images based on universal rules of beauty and perfection. Documenting the improbable collisions between classical figuration and contemporary abstraction, Strata #4 aims to create an harmonious dialogue between worlds that may appear very distant from one another, but in fact share so much in common."

Strata #4 is part of the ongoing Strata Series

For more visit quayola.com

[cavapas]

Strata #4 by Quayola. I want this in my living room!!!

http://www.nexusproductions.com/case/strata4/index.php

http://thecreatorsproject.com/blog/quayolas-istrata-4i-abstracts-the-flemish-masters

[saratara]

My favorite piece from this weekend's Creators Project. 

(via Strata #4 | Quayola)

[artfulmoves-blog]

"painting"  

[electrorenaissance]

Strata #4 - Teaser 1

by Quayola

[graphicalspace-blog-blog]

Strata #4

Quayola has created a new multi-screen video-installation to be premiered on the 7-9th October 2011, at the renowned Palais des Beaux Arts in Lille, France’s second museum after the Louvre, as the opening of their 2011-2012 season. An exclusive password protected excerpt is available for you to watch here. Quayola's mesmerising piece, Strata#4, is part of his on-going series of films, prints and site-specific installations for the project devised to challenge accepted perceptions of classical art, architecture and iconography.

Using a series of paintings from the Palais des Beaux Arts' Flemish collection and specifically focusing on the Rubens grand altarpieces, Strata #4 strips away the outer layers of dramatic symbolism from the masterpieces and explores the world beneath their figurative skins. Quayola uses custom software to decode the rules present in the proportion, composition and colour of each painting, defining colour palettes, patterns and structures, and generating new abstract geometries following those very same rules. Strata #4 describes the journey from the original masterpieces to contemporary digital abstractions, transforming from a recognisable reality into a colour-saturated and calculated fabrication, pulsing and mutating in a stunning sequence of geometric formations. Launching at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Lille on 7th October, Strata #4 will be shown as a large-scale diptych installation located in the atrium alongside the related original paintings used in the film. Produced by Nexus Interactive Arts