Art
Hildegard 3.0
- Item Number
- 115
- Estimated Value
- 1000 USD
- Opening Bid
- 334 USD
Item Description
Artist: Louisa Armburst
Oil on Canvas
Item Special Note
The painting I'm proposing to donate to the auction will be part of an ongoing series of works about our current relationship with our digital devices and how these connect us to the larger world. Especially since the 2016 election, my own consumption and interaction with the news of the world has increased, and the same is true of almost everyone I speak with. I wanted to find a way to visually embody the activist energy that has surged in the last two years, while also giving form to the immersiveness of the digital information cloud in which we spend our days, for better and for worse. The paintings are imaginings of these internet energies, which surround and are personified by a figure inspired by the German (proto-) Renaissance woman Hildegard of Bingen. She was an abbess and prominent intellectual in the Middle Ages. Because she was doing all this as a woman, when she described her own creative output, which spanned the disciplines of music, theology, philosophy, medicine and agriculture and more, she always claimed that it wasn't she who was originating these thoughts, but that she was simply taking dictation, more-or-less, from "the higher power". She build monasteries and composed songs that are still performed today so I think she is a fascinating character to consider through today's lens of social media, #meetoo and female empowerment.
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