Iconographies #20 | ‘Tiger Hunt’ after Rubens, Paintings

Iconographies #20, is recontextulizes classical art, reformatting and exploring it through generative procedures and formulations.

Religious and scenes from mythology from the Baroque and Renaissance painters are refracted through mathematical processes to delve “beneath the iconographic layer to propose alternative versions of the actual paintings,” offering up a different, computational viewpoint.

Iconographies is an ongoing project focusing on the analysis of renaissance and baroque paintings via computational methods. Religious and mythological scenes are transformed into complex digital formations. By removing iconographic narratives, the paintings lose their original context to become new objects of contemplation.

This series does not aim to offer new contemporary takes on the original subjects, on the contrary it delves beneath the iconographic layer to propose alternative versions of the actual paintings.
Old masterpieces are reduced to sets of instructions to translate their composition and colour schemes into new abstractions. This expanded vision offered by computational methods allows the originals to be re-discovered under a new authenticity.

The focus lies in the linguistic difference between the original and its algorithmic abstraction. The complete detachment from historical narratives achieved through computer-vision, allows a new and unexplored point of view.

Project by Quayola
Commission: BOZAR, Brussels
Producer: Nicolas Wierinck
Printing: Milo-Profi
Custom Software: Dofl

Peter Paul Rubens. The Tiger Hunt, 1615-6, 256 x 324 cm, Oil on canvas.

Prints Series
C-Print on Fujiflex Supergloss on Aluminium in Wooden Tray
H180cm x W120cm

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