“Religious Altarpieces” series: Reflections on European Iconography and High-Dimensional Intelligence 宗教祭坛画系列: 欧洲的圣像画与高维智慧体的思考

Creator(s)

• Xin CANG 苍鑫

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The artist takes the tradition of European iconography as a reference, drawing on religious painting from the late Middle Ages to the Renaissance, such as the "enthroned Madonna", "the Virgin and Child", and "Saint Francis receiving the stigmata". The artist keeps the figures, architecture, and spatial structure of the originals and redraws them in gold lines on a black ground. Additionally, he inserts multidimensional geometric forms and imaginary creatures of his own invention. They appear in the Virgin's arms, in the sky toward which a saint gazes, at the center of the altar, replacing or intervening in the divine focal point of each image. It creates a new way of thinking about high-dimensional life existing in parallel universes. (Angela Tan '28)