Light: Rafaël Rozendaal Museum of Modern Art November 16, 2024 – Spring 2025 Curated by Paola Antonelli Photos by Jonathan Dorado
“Abstraction is the intensification of perception,” says Rafaël Rozendaal, an innovator in the realm of Internet-based art. Since the early 2000s, Rozendaal has produced vibrant animations that explore the aesthetic and conceptual possibilities of code, treating it as if it were paint. This installation presents a selection of his artworks, each sampled for two to three minutes.
Each work starts as a storyboard sketched on paper, which is then translated into code, into a program that occupies only a few kilobytes. The final form is an autonomous website powered by that algorithm, which generates the animation in real time.