Lot 75

Work is well framed behind perspex in a white frame with some white marks and dents. framed size: 113 x 197cm


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Commissioned from the artist, via Experimenta
Private collection, Melbourne

This work is a digital still from the the video, Xanadu, which was commissioned by Experimenta.
The work involved digital animation, incorporating digital video and photography collected by the artist in Japan and Italy. It is a critique of the idealised urban representations, or the megatropolis.
"Xanadu critiques popular representations of the increasingly virtual 'ideal city'; here conceived as a trans-cultural model of contemporary utopia. Seductively hyperreal in full HD, Xanadu depicts a vast and spectacular urban space of uncertain spatial, temporal and cultural origins. Selected details are flawlessly animated, providing an almost hallucinogenic quality of visual sensitivity." (The Artist)