Opera Gallery Singapore at ION Orchard presents ‘Cutting Edge – Technology Meets Art’

PUBLISHED July 13th, 2015 02:09 am | UPDATED May 9th, 2018 03:13 am

Opera Gallery is proud to present Cutting Edge – Technology Meets Art, a group show exploring the meeting point between art and technology.

Exhibiting works by French originator NOART, Chinese art collective Liu Dao, as well as lenticular works by Italian artist Umberto Ciceri and Korean artist Bae Joon Sung.

Cutting Edge – Technology Meets Art considers both the rise of the aesthetic interface and its diversely global reverberations through contemporary art. Moving away from traditional art forms such as painting and sculpture, new media art can be traced back to the moving photographic inventions of the 19th century including the Zoetrope and the Praxinoscope, before developing into kinetic and light art in the beginning of the 20th century spearheaded by Alexander Calder and Tracey Emin respectively.

New video technologies in the 1960s, computer graphics in the 1980s and the World Wide Web in the 1990s perpetuated the necessity of interactivity in art, which was rapidly becoming a critical component of new media art forms. These new media art offered a new type of social exchange, allowing the external viewer to participate and transform the piece itself. Contemporary new media art aligns itself to the rise in global accessibility through Internet platforms, and a loss of individual identity within the vast digital interface.

The groundbreaking compositions featured include Umberto Ciceri’s ‘hypertraits’ – an array of kaleidoscopically metamorphosing 3D lenticular panels, NOART’s playful and futuristic vortexes that pay tribute to the industrial world, Shanghai-based collective Liu Dao’s chimerically convivial animations of old and new China sights and icons, and the highly sought-after utopian juxtapositions of modern photography and traditional painting techniques works of Bae Joon Sung, a cohesion between historical romanticism and modernity. While employing distinct techniques and subject matter, these revolutionary and latest acquisitions of Opera Gallery address themes of collaboration, identity, surveillance, and intervention.

Revel in this inspirational display of contemporary triumph in an exhibition that promises to stimulate the senses. A one-of-a-kind Opera Gallery showcase not to be missed!

The event will take place at Opera Gallery from 31 July – 16 August, from 10am – 8pm.

Header and thumbnail image is “The Costume of Painter- The Frames Lenticular, oil on vinyl on photograph, 130 x 162 cm” courtesy of Bae Joon Sung

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