The art of Pieter Schoolwerth

Topic: The art of Pieter Schoolwerth Student name: Lee Ching Chi (Billy) Student number: 60170220 Pieter Schoolwerth’s works always question how the human subject is supposed to perform in the modern age of the digital avatar. Even though Schoolwerth is an artist, his process of painting is a complex hybrid of computerized and traditional painting.By using a multi-layered process that includes photographing subjects, building physical models, 3D-scanning them into a digital form, erasing and editing figures on the computer software, then manually painting their remaining pieces of the human subject back in real life, Schoolwerth performs an “archaeology” of modern human existence. Contrary to paintings, Schoolwerth’s art is not just a static image, but a record of a moving action. For my research this week, I’ll be discussing Schoolwerth’s Accidental Megastructure #1—a choreographed dance between a human and its shadow, the object and the void behind it, ultimately staging the "ac...