Simulating/Rubbing Off Modernity/Art

1. Bruce Nauman Raw Material - Brrr, 1990
2. Bruce Nauman Flesh To White To Black To Flesh, 1968
3. Ed Atkins Warm, Warm, Warm Spring Mouths, 2013
4. Bruce Nauman Studies For Hologram, 1970

An exhibition of beauty that seeks international comparison. Juxtaposing the old master with the young master. Video experiments with the self (Nauman) and a 3D-modelled self (Atkins). 1968-2013. Poetic, disgusting, sentimental.
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Ed Atkins | Bruce Nauman, July 7 – October 26 2014, Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany

Second Life, 2013

or 'Avatar'



























Shirt RAF by Raf Simons
Cropped trousers Whyred
Boots Ann Demeulemeester

When virtual identity turns into overstaged reality, the self-portrait becomes a patch. Distinctions are being made between first and second life. Yet, one cannot sim-ulate what has not been created before.
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The Nude Portrait IV

category f.1) interior as group portrait

1. Richard Hamilton Hotel du Rhone, 2005
2. The Sims Nude Clothing
3. The Sims Gay Couple

category f.2) standing, reflection in mirror

4. Richard Hamilton Descending Nude, 2006
5. The Sims Untitled (Sims 3)

category f.3) sitting, at desk

6. Richard Hamilton An Annunciation, 2006
7. Second Life Reasonable Desires Underwear

category f.4) leaving the shower


8. Richard Hamilton A Mirrorical Return, 1998
9. The Sims Nude Patch (Sims 3)

category f.5) male nude, posing

10. Richard Hamilton Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?, 1956
11. Second Life Laguna Bay Nude Beach
12. Second Life Angelus Nude

The digital nude. The virtual nude. The rendered 3D nude. Resulting in a fictive hyper-realist portrait of the non-existent. Psyche portraits, phantom portraits, wet fantasy depictions.
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