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拍品专文
Emily Allchurch creates complex photographic images that closely reference old master paintings and prints. Each of her images is composed from numerous photographs she has taken, carefully blended using digital software, to produce a seamless recreation of the original, set in a contemporary idiom.
Ideal City (after della Francesca) was commissioned directly from the artist by Sting and Trudie Styler in 2006 and nestled within the composition is their home on Queen Anne’s Gate. The work is based upon the Renaissance painting Ideal City, with Circular Temple by the circle of Piero della Francesca at the Palazzo Ducale in Urbino. Using classical language, the arrangement of the buildings in this imaginary vision expresses the social function of architecture in forming the perfect harmonious society. Allchurch set herself the challenge of recreating this ‘model city’ from a composite of real buildings existing in London today. Using the centre point as the divide between West London (to the left) and East London (to the right), the piece reveals classical aspirations across the city. However, on closer inspection, cracks appear on the surfaces of these opposing sides, suggesting that perhaps all is not ideal in this constructed utopia.
An edition of five smaller versions of Ideal City (after della Francesca) were made at a later date leaving the current work unique in its size.
Ideal City (after della Francesca) was commissioned directly from the artist by Sting and Trudie Styler in 2006 and nestled within the composition is their home on Queen Anne’s Gate. The work is based upon the Renaissance painting Ideal City, with Circular Temple by the circle of Piero della Francesca at the Palazzo Ducale in Urbino. Using classical language, the arrangement of the buildings in this imaginary vision expresses the social function of architecture in forming the perfect harmonious society. Allchurch set herself the challenge of recreating this ‘model city’ from a composite of real buildings existing in London today. Using the centre point as the divide between West London (to the left) and East London (to the right), the piece reveals classical aspirations across the city. However, on closer inspection, cracks appear on the surfaces of these opposing sides, suggesting that perhaps all is not ideal in this constructed utopia.
An edition of five smaller versions of Ideal City (after della Francesca) were made at a later date leaving the current work unique in its size.