Salvator Mundi by Roberto Voorbij

Salvator Mundi

Size: 45 x 66 x 4 cm

Medium: Photo paper on underlayment, prism acrylic, brass and metal

Year: 2021

About the work: For this series has been chosen specifically for religious and mythological images. However, by placing the figures - each appropriated from classic paintings - behind a geometric grid contrasting associations arise. The analog pixels that appear due to the distortion of the plastic prism plate act like the scrambled image of a suspect. But at the same time, the plate also seems to function as a protection of the vulnerable. Is this series about censoring the religious or is it rather an attempt to protect the weak? The grid over the Renaissance painting also emphasises the triangular composition that has been used. Or does it expose an underlying matrix, a metaphysical network that's being uncovered...