This installation reflects on the physics of the theoretical relationship between paint pigments as particles and light rays as waves. The work combines traditional oil painting on canvas with computer animation in such a way that the projection, which is organized from the basic elements of the composition and follows the structure of the image, creates a kinetic experience in contact with the painting, born out of the symbiosis of the two. The intersection and interaction of painted and projected forms create a peculiar structural relationship that creates the impression that the work is constantly reproducing itself. The viewer witnesses how the projected moving image transforms the static frame of the abstract geometric canvas. The fusion of corporeal and incorporeal layers creates a virtual field that functions as an “extended assemblage,” based on the interaction between the pigment-based painting and the digital projection. The art form, also known as “light-painted painting,” not only seeks to push the boundaries of perception, but also to answer the question of how the transparency between traditional and new media is associated with new visual experiences.
Since the early 1990s, the artist Éva Köves (Moscow, 1965) has been painting her own photographs on canvas and then painting them in oil, mostly in large-scale “picture-in- picture” constructions of dozens of pieces. The structure and stylistic language of his compositions draw on the avant-garde spirit of the first half of the twentieth century, the tradition of colour-form experiments in geometric abstraction, and can be interpreted as a continuation of László Moholy-Nagy’s constructivist program.
Andrea Sztojánovits (Budapest, 1979) is a media artist whose work focuses on the frontiers of digital imaging, especially improvisational audio-visual performances. The theory and practice of VJ-culture and the opportunity to create interactive installations, often programmed on the basis of new scientific models, which further develop the traditional tools of visual art, are of decisive importance in her artistic work.
The collaboration between the two artists began in 2009 with the founding of Monochrome Clack.
