Captives

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Quayola, a visionary artist based in London, brings forth innovative three-piece sculptures that merge photography, geometry, and immersive audiovisual installations. His artistic journey deconstructs architecture and historic artworks to recreate them anew, as seen in Factum Arte's collaboration with Quayola on a digital re-interpretation of Laocoön, crafted from resin and marble powder. This thought-provoking work delves into the paradigms of old and new, real and artificial, often questioning how we perceive original masterpieces and collections – particularly the tension between direct experience and mediated viewpoints. Quayola's artistic practice frequently explores how geometry and visual analysis intersect with audio-visual performance, drawing, photography, and software programming. He crafts a distinctive distance from his subjects to reveal their underlying structures. Captives is an ongoing series of digital and physical sculptures that reinterpret Michelangelo's "Prigioni" (1513-1534) and the non-finito technique. This captivating series oscillates between form and matter, balancing perfect man-made objects with chaotic natural forms. While referencing Renaissance sculptures, it shifts focus from pure figurative representation to the articulation of matter itself. As in Michelangelo's original "Prigioni," the classic figures remain unfinished, documenting their creation and transformation history. Mathematical functions govern computer-generated geological formations that evolve endlessly, morphing into classical figures. Industrial robots sculpt these geometries into life-size "unfinished" sculptures.