Ordinary, Except
Fall 2021
Prof. Elle Gerdeman
with Eric Lee
Somerville, MA
“Representation in the Mérode Triptych appears as an actualization of virtual operations of folding. If Italian Renaissance painting since Alberti is defined as a section through the pyramid of vision, then one can possibly define early Dutch painting as a section through an accumulating series of hypothetical unfolding operations...The intertwining of the real and the fictitious foldable object at the point where real and painted hinges meet leads to a merging of presence and absence.”
-Bernhard Siegert