Journal | magazén
Monographic journal issue | 4 | 2 | 2023
Research Article | Contemporary Adventures with The Garden of Earthly Delights: Open Worlds and Hieronymus Bosch
Contemporary Adventures with The Garden of Earthly Delights: Open Worlds and Hieronymus Bosch
Abstract
Over 500 years after it was created, Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights continues to intrigue viewers. It has inspired contemporary artwork across diverse media including experimental film, digital animation and video games, as well as providing stimuli for curators, critics and collectors. This article maps present-day approaches to The Garden of Earthly Delights and links the enduring appeal of this painting to its interactive, multi-layered structure in which countless narrative vignettes play out simultaneously. Contemporary artworks that reference Bosch’s triptych are examined, with a special focus on digital creations by SMACK, Miao Xiaochun, Michael Bielicky and Kamila B. Richter. The exhibition The Garden of Earthly Delights Through the Artworks of Colección SOLO is also analyzed to illustrate how an understanding of Bosch’s work as interactive art informed the exhibition discourse, publication and architecture.
Submitted: Sept. 20, 2023 | Accepted: Nov. 9, 2023 | Published Dec. 19, 2023 | Language: en
Keywords Contemporary art • Hieronymus Bosch • Open worlds • New media art • Megadungeon • The Garden of Earthly Delights • Exhibition design • Digital art
Subtags Publication Image data Institutions Technology Environment Society Works of Art Communication Participation Visualisation Communities
Copyright © 2023 Rebekah Rhodes. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/mag/2724-3923/2023/02/007
