Suzanne Treister British, b. 1958
Q.Would you recognise a Virtual Paradise? The Virtual Scene: Schloss Neuschwanstein, 1994
oil on canvas
76.2 x 76.2 cm
30 x 30 in
30 x 30 in
'The castle in the landscape of this space is not the stone expression of The Law, in the way that castles in our present space have been considered to have...
"The castle in the landscape of this space is not the stone expression of The Law, in the way that castles in our present space have been considered to have been, simultaneously signifying and promulgating expressions of hierarchy and structure. Rather this castle is a law unto itself. For a start itchanges size rather alarmingly, and occasionally it will/hasfloat(ed) off to become a castle in its space. In the air. Castles inthe air manage the strange trick of simultaneously existing andnot existing. An exemplar of this strange state being either (and both) the castle built by mad Prince Ludwig in Bavaria which expressed concretely all the castles that had never been, which in turn became, or caused, the Disney castle which in two dimensions lived in film before popping through a third dimension to appear in the USA, then back flat for the TV screen, before it (the same castle) started hovering over France.As can be seen, once we have a virtual castle in virtual space all other 'real' castles that we have considered to be solid, mute, immovable, become contaminated with the virtual and start to flux, move and lose focus in a most distressing manner, almost flickering out of existence if we avert our eyes." Richard Grayson, We're Not In Kansas Anymore, Toto", 1994