Masters of Today: Beyond Truth
From Rembrandt to Elon Musk
Cosmology and modern masters of art & science are illuminated and their ideas explained through a 7 piece L.E.D artwork called "7 ISLANDS" commissioned by the G10 and Boudewijn Richel.
Each island represents a rupture or break in time when art and science came very close together, and painters and scientists talked more with each other than they do today.
ISLAND 01
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ISLAND 02
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ISLAND 03
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ISLAND 04
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ISLAND 05
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ISLAND 05
SECTION 01 FRANCIS BACON
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ISLAND 05
SECTION 02 DIANE ARBUS
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ISLAND 05
SECTION 03 HUGH EVERETT
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ISLAND 05
SECTION 04 ANDY WARHOL
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ISLAND 05
SECTION 05 MICHEL FOUCAULT
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ISLAND 06
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ISLAND 07
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THE HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSE FILM WAS PRODUCED SEPERATELY BY THOMAS HERTOG BASED ON
THE ORIGIN OF TIME: STEPHE HAWKINGS FINAL THEORY
MORE INFORMATION:
“Masters of Our Time” brings together great thinkers and visual artists like Stephen Hawking, Kandinsky, Byung-Chul Han, Andy Warhol, and contemporaries like Damien Hirst and Elon Musk. The exhibition is a playful but deep analysis of what it means when truth leaves us. Are we ready for this? The exhibition jumps from Plato, whom we see as a philosopher spreading fake news, to Donald Trump, who loves the term ‘alternative facts.’
According to Anselm Kiefer, Einstein suffered his whole life under the discovery that the laws of nature were different for big objects compared to small objects like atoms. Two truths existing at the same time directly caused trouble and marked the start of modern times.
As we enter the era of virtual reality with AI and all its unexplored freedoms and identity issues, we need great artists to deal with them. People usually tend to think in terms of truth and lies, inner and outer, or black and white. But as science has taught us, even color in nature, like green, is not inherently a quality of plants and trees but programmed by the minds of humans who perceive them. What is it that we know and find beautiful, and why? How much is the mind part of the perceived artwork?
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July 19th was the opening evening with a special lecture by professor Thomas Hertog and a detailed commentary on quantum, religion and the multiverse by Slavoj Žižek.
Dates: 19th July till 7th September 2024
De Duif Church
Prinsengracht 756, 1017 LH Amsterdam
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INSTALLATION PHOTOS:
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ISLAND 02
ISLAND 03
ISLAND 04
ISLAND 05
ISLAND 05
SECTION 01 FRANCIS BACON
ISLAND 05
SECTION 02 DIANE ARBUS
ISLAND 05
SECTION 03 HUGH EVERETT
ISLAND 05
SECTION 04 ANDY WARHOL
ISLAND 05
SECTION 05 MICHEL FOUCAULT
ISLAND 06
ISLAND 07
THE HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSE FILM WAS PRODUCED SEPERATELY BY THOMAS HERTOG BASED ON
THE ORIGIN OF TIME: STEPHE HAWKINGS FINAL THEORY
MORE INFORMATION:
“Masters of Our Time” brings together great thinkers and visual artists like Stephen Hawking, Kandinsky, Byung-Chul Han, Andy Warhol, and contemporaries like Damien Hirst and Elon Musk. The exhibition is a playful but deep analysis of what it means when truth leaves us. Are we ready for this? The exhibition jumps from Plato, whom we see as a philosopher spreading fake news, to Donald Trump, who loves the term ‘alternative facts.’
According to Anselm Kiefer, Einstein suffered his whole life under the discovery that the laws of nature were different for big objects compared to small objects like atoms. Two truths existing at the same time directly caused trouble and marked the start of modern times.
As we enter the era of virtual reality with AI and all its unexplored freedoms and identity issues, we need great artists to deal with them. People usually tend to think in terms of truth and lies, inner and outer, or black and white. But as science has taught us, even color in nature, like green, is not inherently a quality of plants and trees but programmed by the minds of humans who perceive them. What is it that we know and find beautiful, and why? How much is the mind part of the perceived artwork?
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July 19th was the opening evening with a special lecture by professor Thomas Hertog and a detailed commentary on quantum, religion and the multiverse by Slavoj Žižek.
Dates: 19th July till 7th September 2024
De Duif Church
Prinsengracht 756, 1017 LH Amsterdam
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INSTALLATION PHOTOS:
