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What is clear is that rendering's look itself has come to represent and stand in for our imaginative space and potential. The wet image absorbed the qualities of virtual space, the sheen of the digitally plastic denoting its manipulability. You see it in the ipad lushness of Orion Martin, the nervous sweat of Atkin's avatar's forehead, the gloss of Wolfson's images dirtied, the cartoon liquidity of Juliano-Villani, the paintings of Koons. Used to stress position the subject/object delineation. The importance of iconographies for many of these people is evidence of our growing identification with icons as subjects themselves come to represent us and open to torture.
See too: Sascha Braunig at Rodolphe Janssen, “Puddle, pothole, portal” at Sculpture Center, Erwin Wurm at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg