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Chinese artist Miao Xiaochun lives and works in Beijing. While operating with the medium of photography, he also produces figurative montages, creating a virtual reality by means of latest computer technology. The performances of this approach are large-sized, pictorial paraphrases. They captivate with visual brilliancy and a confounding deviation from the artistic archetype. He uses masterpieces of the Renaissance and baroque painting as substructure for these visual montages, reaching from Hieronymus Bosch or Michelangelo up to Titian and Brueghel. He became well-known for his monumental work on ¡°The Last Judgement¡± by Michelangelo.
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The current exhibition shows his works on an artwork by Hieronymus Bosch: ¡°The Garden of Earthly Delights¡±. Bosch presumably lived from 1450 until 1516. ¡°The Garden of Earthly Delights¡± is a triptych on display at the PradoMuseum in Madrid. There is no precise evidence as to its date of origin, yet it is generally estimated that ¡°The Garden of Earthly Delights¡± was painted some time around the year 1500. The work comprises one central panel flanked by two narrower outer wings. When these side wings are folded shut, they display the painting of a lucid globe, showing earth on the third day of creation: God has separated water and earth, and created the first plants. The inner triptych offers a view on ¡°The Garden of Eden¡± (left wing), ¡°The Garden of Earthly Delights¡± (central panel) and an illustration of ¡°Musical Hell¡± (right wing).
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Miao Xiaochun conveys this triptych into a screen-like, monumental fanfold work composed of nine single pieces. This screen-shaped pattern evokes a wall that can be folded together and set up in any place. It consists of several