WORLD HERITAGE MISSIONS CONTEMPORARY ART COLLECTION, "TURNING POINT"

The San Antonio Missions became UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2015. Kevin spent two months in the late summer of 2015 creating a collection of Grand Scale Contemporary Art images. These hyper-realistic art pieces are presented in three limited edition collection sets of five images each.

 

Grand Scale - as large as 35'  wide x 20' tall - Limited to six sets

Public Scale - 4' tall and 7-10' wide - Limited to six sets 

Private Scale - 4' wide and proportionately tall - Limited to six sets

Prices (all sold as sets in the limited editions)  

Grand Scale, $500,000 plus a management fee of 25% of engineering, public space design, lighting, printing, and mounting. This includes a "Perpetual Print License" so the image can be recreated in a new space, if necessary, forever. 

 

Public Scale, $200,000 for a set of five limited edition prints, printed on canvas, mounted and framed with a museum-grade frame for each print. 

 

Private Scale, $60,000 for a set of five limited edition prints printed on canvas, mounted and framed with a museum-grade frame for each print. 

 

Unlimited, 24" wide by proportionate height, framed with a contemporary dark gold frame, $4,500 for a set of five, $1,000 for a single print.

 

Each element of the Art Collection is a composition containing up to 100 images. Using an 80-megapixel medium format technical camera with a custom gimbal and mounting rig, rows of overlapping images are created from a single point of view.

 

The result is an image that is composed like a single photograph or painting yet has no loss of detail and is massive in size. The viewer doesn’t perceive the art piece as a photograph but rather as a perfect painting or a window opening up to the scene.

 

The challenge in a composition is to place the camera in the right place, at the right time, and then to capture all the images quickly enough before the light changes or the wind blows. Since all the images have to overlap perfectly, even a gust of breeze can render the set of images unusable for a big print. Afterward, weeks of painstaking combining of images has to occur, and we must use a state-of-the-art computer to make it possible in this time frame.

 

Once the image is perfect, it is ready to be printed. We use the finest canvas, mounting, and custom frames for the two smaller collections. Everything is museum-grade, built to last for centuries. Finally, each of the smaller images receives a custom 22kt gold leaf nameplate attached to the frame.

 

The Grand Scale images are able to be printed and mounted on a myriad of surfaces, from glass to granite to steel, engineered for more industrial exhibits. These are perfect for public spaces as they have the durability to remain pristine in a more challenging environment than a museum or corporate lobby.

 

These are true artisan works of art, leveraging the composition of a master and state-of-the-art technology. Even in high resolution, standard photographs do not possess the detail of hundreds of images combined in one composition.