CULTUREEDIT ART AUCTION #6
José Carlos Casado
José Carlos Casado, inside.v07, 2021
Details
C-print on photographic paper
Original artwork
13 x 19 inches
Edition: 2/5
Description:
Two figures interface in a hypnotic digital loop. There is something erotic about their movements. Their rolling, hungry heads exceed corporeal limits, suggesting a lover's kiss—a computer-rendered vision of an image depicted in art for eons.
And yet more than a kiss, the bodies hyperconnect in a permeation of the skin boundary that allows one to see inside the other. But are they really only lovers? Could they not also be twins or even clones? In many ways, we take the infinite replicability of the digital medium for granted. Copies, clones, replicas, and rip-offs multiply promiscuously in code.
Casado’s “inside.v07” is a testament to this: its virtual mirror line reveals that one head is identical to the other, yet each is an original animation.
The “inside” series was first displayed in 2002 at the Picasso Foundation in Málaga, Spain, and in 2004 at the Postmasters’ NYC Gallery. By revisiting Casado’s work in 2021, this piece asks how this dialectic of originality, the interplay of the new and the old, has changed in the intervening years.
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CULTUREEDIT ART AUCTION #6
José Carlos Casado
Casado's artworks have been shown in multiple international solo and group shows and received numerous recognitions, including Picasso Foundation grant, La Caixa Foundation scholarship, MIT's Leonardo Award, two NYFA Fellowships, UMEZ grant, and two QCA grants. He has participated in numerous New Media Festivals, including Sundance and Ars Electronica, and created several Public Art, at Socrates Sculpture Park; Castle Williams in Governors Island; Women Center Plaza in Madrid; Marcus Garvey Park; Rufus King Park, and NYC Percentage for Art Program’s commission for a permanent sculpture in Queens. Casado created a foundation to raise funds to build schools in India, two has been built.
