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Unstitched Border: Xanthopsia 205

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More than a work of art, Unstitched Border is a materialized philosophical device. By revisiting Van Gogh's "Head of a Man," this piece engages in a dialogue with art history in order to transcend it. The approach is not surrealist, but subrealist: it does not aim for the dream, but seeks to reveal what lies beneath visible reality. The abstract gestural layers become a cartography of the portrait's underlying energies, its nervous and emotional flows. The concept of "Xanthopsia" (yellow vision), a symptom potentially experienced by Van Gogh, is reinterpreted here as a utopian metaphor: the capacity to find light even in turmoil, transforming a pathology into a philosophy. The hybrid technique is the very manifesto of this "disjointed frontier." The process is the artwork: - Acrylic paint provides the material anchor, echoing Van Gogh's physical gesture. - Photography effects the transition, the initial dematerialization toward digital language. - Frame-by-frame digital animation breathes life into the work, a subtle tremor. The boundaries between forms become porous, embodying a state of perpetual flux. The composition functions like a palimpsest where the original artwork, its pictorial interpretation, and its digital reactivation are superimposed. In this superimposition, an imaginary landscape merges with the portrait until the face becomes landscape, and the landscape becomes face. This fusion abolishes the boundary between the inner (mental) and outer (environmental) worlds, suggesting that our perceptions shape our reality. "Disjointed Frontier" thus shifts the value from the art object to the experience of art. The artwork only fully exists in the active gaze of the viewer, invited into a cyclical dialogue between the piece, their introspection, and the world. Born of digital culture through its animated aesthetic and layering, it uses 21st-century tools to "recharge" Van Gogh's timeless questions. Tribute to Van Gogh : Head Of A Man 2 Original piece at : Van Gogh Museum 2160 x 3840 px / 4K MP4 / 185 Mo / 8 fps / 1/1 édition

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