RALUCA STURZU SELECTED ARTWORKS
Raluca Sturzu (b. 1988, Bucharest, Romania) is a graduate architect and designer (UAUIM, ENSAPB), living and working in Paris & Bucharest. Her education and personal cultural background kept her permanently in touch with art & technology. In her art related work she focuses on perception and how technology could alter or augment reality through programming and digital rendering. www.ralucasturzu.com contact@ralucasturzu.com
SEASCAPES Seascapes is a series of synthetic marine landscapes. Whereas Hiroshi Sugimoto’s seascape photography shows the real sea and the real sky becoming a linear abstraction and Gerhard Richter’s realistic photo paintings exude a mild mist which romanticizes both sea and sky, here we’re looking at a clean, standard rendering of a seascape. The sea is almost flat, the clouds roam above in a low light, at dusk or at dawn. The hyperrealism is an aim, as everything is a setup, a 3D modelled mass of vertices under a cold software sky.
SEASCAPE NO. 3
SEASCAPE NO. 5
SEASCAPE NO. 8
SEASCAPE NO. 10
SEASCAPE NO. 9
PIXELS ON OLD MASTERS The digital medium affects the object of representation, modifies its content and creates new visual semantics. In this context, the series “Pixels on Old Masters” is a play on perception where images of classical works are translated and eventually altered by computer completely, the computer being an equalizer – an efficiency oriented mechanism and medium of perception where all the inputs are nothing more than pure data. Specifically, oil paintings of the old masters are reduced to RGB fields of pixels to be operated upon by code which reads and eventually renders them as quantifiable results.
MALATESTA ESCAPING THE FRAME. AN ATTEMPT
INNOCENT X
POLITTICO DELLA MISERICORDIA
ANNUNCIAZIONE (PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA)
ANNUNCIAZIONE (SIMONE MARTINI)
RIXE
FALLING FLOWERS
TRI-COLOUR EXPERIMENTS The landscape photography series attempts to suggest the movements of nature (wind, waves, clouds passing, light changes) by storing sequences of the same view on different colour channels. The result is an eerie digital phantom of a movement lacking in a frame and manifesting in another, aiming to add a digital layer of information to a standard landscape photography.
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