The Berlin Gemäldegalerie invited American artist Michael Joaquin Grey to choose one of the well-known Renaissance portraits in the museum's collection and produce a contemporary artistic reaction to the work. Grey chose Sandro Botticelli's painting Simonetta Vespucci (circa 1475). The portrait is the basis for the computer-generated work 'Between Simonetta', which slowly but continuously alters the portrait by means of an algorithmic program, calculating ever-new combinations. Questions arising from this work of likeness and ideal, of authenticity, temporality and the transformation of an image lie at the centre of the catalogue. The artist at once thematizes the paradigms of human perception and explores the genesis of the face as a constructive, self-reflexive process.
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