Luxembourg-born painter Michel Majerus tragically died in a plane crash in 2002 at the age of 35, cutting short a promising career marked by innovative installations and paintings. Majerus's works, which merged early digital culture with art movements like Abstract Expressionism, continued to impact the art community even after his passing. In 2017, artist Cory Arcangel discovered Majerusâs surviving hard drive, prompting a quest to explore the digital remnants of Majerus's creativity, which included a painting that anticipated the internet's collision of different aesthetic styles.
"Majerus had been the subject of a solo museum exhibition in Switzerland, in 1996, and he'd created a major installation for the Venice Biennale, in 1999."
"Majerus's souped-up Apple PowerBook G3 laptop, however, survived the wreck-at least, the hard drive did."
"The background is covered in acid-pastel blocks of color, reminiscent of the Neo-Geo movement of the nineteen-eighties, but the foreground contains evocative phrases in text that looks pulled from Geocities or a 'Matrix'-era rave poster."
"Majerus had intuited that the internet would lead to a great collision of styles and reference pointsâeverything from Super Mario to Jackson Pollock coexisting in pixels."
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