GEORGIE ROXBY SMITH

Georgie Roxby Smith, Game Art, GTAV Intervention, 99 Problems 

Uncomposed (after Titian after Giogione) deconstructs Giorgione’s Sleeping Venus, a composite painting, completed by Titian following Giogione’s death in 1510. The work was a landmark of its era, reflecting a new shift in modern art with the inclusion of a female nude at its centre. Employing three-dimensional computer graphics and elements of Giorgione’s original masterpiece, Roxby Smith replaces his stylised renaissance figure with a fantasised digital body transplanted into an augmented hyper real landscape. In the likeness of her present day artist, the 21st Century Venus will not lie still for her voyeurs, obstinately returning the male gaze from her new digital paradigm, Sleeping Venus awakes.