Captives

This three piece sculpture is made by Quayola, a visual artist based in London. His work explores photography, geometry, time-based digital sculptures and immersive audiovisual installations and performances. He deconstructs architecture and historic artworks to then rebuild them. Factum Arte, in collaboration with Davide Quayola, has created a digital re-interpretation of a Laocoön, produced in resin with marble powder. Quayola investigates the paradigms of the old and the new, the real and the artificial. His artistic practice often explores how we look at original masterpieces and collections – particularly the tension that exists between primary experience and a mediated viewpoint. Crafting a peculiar distance from his subjects, Quayola engages visual analysis and geometry, often working across the platforms of audio-visual performance, drawing, photography and software programming. Captives is an ongoing series of digital and physical sculptures, a contemporary interpretation of Michelangelo's unfinished series "Prigioni" (1513-1534) and his technique of "non-finito". The work explores the tension and equilibrium between form and matter, man-made objects of perfection and complex, chaotic forms of nature. Whilst referencing Renaissance sculptures, the focus of this series shifts from pure figurative representation to the articulation of matter itself. As in the original "Prigioni" the classic figures are left unfinished, documenting the very history of their creation and transformation. Mathematical functions and processes describe computer-generated geological formations that evolve endlessly, morphing into classical figures. Industrial computer-controlled robots sculpt the resulting geometries into life-size "unfinished" sculptures. "In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped, and perfect in attitude and action.I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.The best artist has that thought alone which is contained within the marble shell; the sculptor's hand can only break the spellto free the figures slumbering in the stone.The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."这件三件套雕塑出自常驻伦敦的视觉艺术家奎欧拉（Quayola）之手。其创作涉猎摄影、几何、基于时间的数字雕塑，以及沉浸式视听装置与表演艺术。他会拆解建筑与历史艺术作品，随后再进行重构。Factum Arte与戴维·奎欧拉（Davide Quayola）合作，以树脂混合大理石粉为材质，创作了《拉奥孔（Laocoön）》的数字重构版本。 奎欧拉始终围绕新旧、真实与虚拟的范式展开研究。其艺术创作常聚焦于人们审视原作与馆藏的方式，尤其关注原始体验与中介视角之间的张力。通过刻意与创作主题保持特殊距离，奎欧拉结合视觉分析与几何手法，常横跨视听表演、素描、摄影与软件开发等多个创作领域。 《俘虏（Captives）》是一项持续进行的数字与实体雕塑系列，是对米开朗基罗未完成系列作品《囚（Prigioni，1513-1534）》及其“未完成（non-finito）”创作技法的当代诠释。该系列探讨了形式与材质、人造完美造物与自然复杂混沌形态之间的张力与平衡。尽管以文艺复兴时期雕塑为参照，但该系列的核心已从纯粹的具象表现转向对材质本身的阐释。一如原作《囚》系列，经典形象均保留未完成状态，以此记录创作与转变的完整历程。 数学函数与过程定义了计算机生成的地质形态，这些形态可无限演化，并逐渐形变至古典人物形象。工业级计算机控制机器人将生成的几何形态雕刻为等比例的“未完成”雕塑作品。 "在每一块大理石中，我都能清晰看见一尊雕像，仿佛它就伫立在我眼前，姿态与动作皆完美无瑕。我只需凿去禁锢这美好幻象的粗糙外壳，便能让世人如我一般窥见它的真容。最优秀的艺术家，其心中早已拥有藏于大理石胚中的形象；雕塑家的双手不过是打破魔咒，唤醒沉睡于石中的形象而已。真正的艺术作品，不过是神性完美的一缕光影。"