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BETA45
Germany
Artist highlights
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
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The Sydney Opera House, one of the world's most famous buildings. Here it's not white, but bright red and orange, a canvas over three meters high: a giant warning sign. Yellow stripes like barrier tape, in the middle the slogan MAKE IT SUPER, below it three bright pink arrows, all pointing upwards.
The opera house is a superlative, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2007. But it came at a price: estimated at 7 million dollars, it cost 102 million,… and was completed ten years late. Its architect, Jørn Utzon, wasn't even invited to the opening.
Everyone wants to be famous these days. Bigger, better, louder. More likes, more followers. Always upwards, like the arrows. Is that really necessary?
If you look closely, you'll find small figures made of pencil and wax crayon. People on the steps. And birds. They simply fly, without an audience, without ranking, without arrows.
Maybe that's actually great.
The opera house is a superlative, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2007. But it came at a price: estimated at 7 million dollars, it cost 102 million,… and was completed ten years late. Its architect, Jørn Utzon, wasn't even invited to the opening.
Everyone wants to be famous these days. Bigger, better, louder. More likes, more followers. Always upwards, like the arrows. Is that really necessary?
If you look closely, you'll find small figures made of pencil and wax crayon. People on the steps. And birds. They simply fly, without an audience, without ranking, without arrows.
Maybe that's actually great.
- Medium : Acrylic, Oil on Canvas
- Framing : Framed
- Dimensions : 47.2x133.9in
BETA45
Germany
BETA45 is not a person, but a project. A version number originated during university studies as software that never existed: Beta version 4.5, never finished, never released, but in use. What remains is a running program.
BETA45 combines photography, printmaking, painting, and augmented reality to create large-format collages of layers, levels, and planes. The motifs reveal how growth becomes visible: skyscrapers, cable bundles, concrete embankments, stilt houses, harbor cranes – structures poised between order and chaos, often found in the less attractive corners of cities.
Each work has a second layer that reveals what the first conceals: facts about sinking cities, overfished lakes, ghost nets in the ocean, or heat trapped between glass and concrete. These layers are made visible via an AR app. The images are beautiful, powerful, and unsettling all at once. They ask what human civilization leaves behind.
BETA45 combines photography, printmaking, painting, and augmented reality to create large-format collages of layers, levels, and planes. The motifs reveal how growth becomes visible: skyscrapers, cable bundles, concrete embankments, stilt houses, harbor cranes – structures poised between order and chaos, often found in the less attractive corners of cities.
Each work has a second layer that reveals what the first conceals: facts about sinking cities, overfished lakes, ghost nets in the ocean, or heat trapped between glass and concrete. These layers are made visible via an AR app. The images are beautiful, powerful, and unsettling all at once. They ask what human civilization leaves behind.
Credentials
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
$4,510
