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ARTIFICAL_GODS_Eurydike.
In earlier days, the world was one big fat coherent
thing that made sense. Then modernity came and blew it all to pieces. Now
Dennis Rudolph comes along and puts it back together again. The abstract
painting, robbed of its object by Modernism a hundred years ago, is no longer
abstract, but turns out to be part of a larger whole that we only see when we
use our phones. The oil painting no longer sits on the wall in sad isolation,
but blends into a vast virtual landscape that includes every painting ever
made. In turn, virtual reality is no longer a free-floating fantasy world, but
connects to our physical realm as Dennis Rudolph anchors it on the million-ton pillars of five millenia of mythology.
And our smartphones are no longer just
the addiction machines we spend hours and years and lives glued to, but become
part of the art.
The automatic action that we’ve conditioned ourselves to
perform – pull phones out and take pictures – turns us into accomplices of the
artwork, thus stopping us from performing that exact automatic action (raise
phones and take pictures). Dennis Rudolph makes us executors of a mankind
that's done with its own history and wants to invent new worlds, but can’t help
only ever looking back. He exposes us our entanglement, but also makes us step
out of it and look at ourselves. We are Orpheus, who could transform the world with a song, and our cultureal history is Eurydice, who unfortunately died, but
we brought her back from the land of the Dead, still we’re not allowed to turn
around and look at her. Dennis Rudolph forces us to act like Orpheus, look back,
and watch as the gods that we created drag our undead love back to the
underworld – this time, forever.
-Dietrich Brüggemann, 11.2.2021
-Dietrich Brüggemann, 11.2.2021
Techne_1, 2020
3D printed digital VR painting cast in bronze.
Depending On Positions
First GPS based AR exhibition in Berlin, Mansteinstrasse, 2019. Initiated by Office Impart and STATE OF THE ART BERLIN. With works by Sam Mattacot, Dennis Rudolph and Tristan Schulze.
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FALLEN ANGELS - UPSTREAM GALLERY, 2019
press release:
In his current multimedia project Rudolph creates a stylistic fusion that can be referred to as Neon-Baroque – a fascinating symbiosis of 17th century frescoes paired with the bright digital effects of the VR program Google TiltBrush. This program allows the artist to use his own hands to paint three-dimensionally in virtual reality, then he introduces these paintings into a space of augmented reality. Experienced with an iPad or a HoloLens headset, these immaterial works float as Holograms through the exhibition space of the gallery interacting with Rudolph's oil paintings.
The final artwork is an immersive multi-sensory experience, combining oil paintings, augmented reality and music resulting in a Wagner-meets-Hollywood Gesamtkunstwerk. But in contrast to the perfect illusions of Hollywood, Rudolph's work allows glitches and cracks in the performance giving us an idea of the fragility of our own construction of reality.
– full text here: Upstream Gallery, 2018
press release:
In his current multimedia project Rudolph creates a stylistic fusion that can be referred to as Neon-Baroque – a fascinating symbiosis of 17th century frescoes paired with the bright digital effects of the VR program Google TiltBrush. This program allows the artist to use his own hands to paint three-dimensionally in virtual reality, then he introduces these paintings into a space of augmented reality. Experienced with an iPad or a HoloLens headset, these immaterial works float as Holograms through the exhibition space of the gallery interacting with Rudolph's oil paintings.
The final artwork is an immersive multi-sensory experience, combining oil paintings, augmented reality and music resulting in a Wagner-meets-Hollywood Gesamtkunstwerk. But in contrast to the perfect illusions of Hollywood, Rudolph's work allows glitches and cracks in the performance giving us an idea of the fragility of our own construction of reality.
– full text here: Upstream Gallery, 2018
