The Gold Metaverse
2022
acrylic, pencil and gold leaf on six panels
overall: 182 x 243 cm
The Gold Metaverse explores the ground-breaking significance of the Metaverse which, like traditional human creativity, allows for the free and unlimited expression of the imagination. It is filled with significant details including real and imagined people and animals, computing, and virtual reality. Despite its futuristic subject, this tour de force of contemporary draftsmanship is imbued with a strong sense of art history. The artist stated:
“I have been obsessed with a masterpiece, the Ghent Altarpiece (below) by Hubert and Jan van Eyck. Our reality can be literally created by computing, and this may be some replacement of the traditional role of Christian thought. I wanted to create a highly detailed golden panel, a secular altarpiece of the modern age about the awesome power of computing, AI and the Metaverse.”
The Gold Metaverse is making its debut at the British Art Fair held at Saatchi Gallery, London SW3 4RY, under the auspices of VIRGINIAVISUALARTS. It will serve as the centrepiece and entrance feature of the Solo Contemporary Section.
Breuer-Weil’s Gold Period is the subject of the monograph David Breuer-Weil, Golden Drawings published by Gli Ori in 2020. Breuer-Weil has stated that he mastered the use of gold leaf “to express these uncanny, otherworldly apocalyptic times we are living through”.
British Art Fair at Saatchi Gallery: 28 September – 1 October 2023
