Michelangelo Iconoclastia
Michelangelo Iconoclastia
The Michelangelo Iconoclastia artist book series (2023-2025) consists of 36 reproductions of an old ubiquitous art historical tourist guide on the work of the Michelangelo Buonarroti, in which the photographic reproductions are transformed with the aid of AI.
The encyclopedic result refers to a cycle of destruction and rebirth. The different appearances of each original image across the different volumes together form families of images imbued by their shared visual origin, like instances of a underlying organisational source.
At the same time it reveals the endlessness– and therefore also the possible meaninglessness – of such unique manifestations.
The encyclopedic result refers to a cycle of destruction and rebirth. The different appearances of each original image across the different volumes together form families of images imbued by their shared visual origin, like instances of a underlying organisational source.
At the same time it reveals the endlessness– and therefore also the possible meaninglessness – of such unique manifestations.