{"product_id":"joan-fontcuberta-calcigorgia-spiculifera-kopie-1","title":"JOAN FONTCUBERTA - Stylophora imperatoris","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaper:\u003c\/b\u003e Giclée prints on Hahnemühle Museum Fine Art paper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 50 x 40 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition:\u003c\/b\u003e 5\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYear:\u003c\/b\u003e 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCertificate:\u003c\/b\u003e Signed and numbered by the artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJOAN FONTCUBERTA – \u003ci\u003eStylophora imperatoris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eStylophora imperatoris\u003c\/i\u003e, Fontcuberta lends a majestic touch to scientific authority. The title – ‘the emperor's Stylophora’ – suggests a discovery that belongs in an imperial cabinet of curiosities, a relic of a lost expedition where taxonomy met delusion. The coral itself, depicted in immaculate black and white, appears both fossilised and futuristic, like an object excavated from the depths of the imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe structure is typical Fontcuberta: a paradox of precision. The surface, littered with countless microcells, appears to have been scanned under a microscope, each pore a tiny declaration of authenticity. And yet the form—compact, symmetrical, strangely anthropomorphic—betrays its fictionality. It could be coral, bone, or artefact. The boundaries blur as easily as the truth it seems to pretend to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFontcuberta crowns the illusion with the name \u003ci\u003eimperatoris\u003c\/i\u003e. Here, the emperor is not a person, but an idea – the sovereign myth of scientific authority. His ‘specimen’ is an AI-created impostor, a new species of coral invented to flatter the empire of knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStylophora imperatoris\u003c\/i\u003e thus becomes a small but effective act of resistance: a reminder that classification itself is a political gesture and that beauty often hides its rebellion under the guise of order. Fontcuberta's coral reigns supreme – not over the sea, but over our desire to believe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KI EDITION BERLIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54456902058319,"sku":null,"price":5000.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2826\/3759\/files\/Coral_5_ret.jpg?v=1739635104","url":"https:\/\/ai-edition-berlin.myshopify.com\/en\/products\/joan-fontcuberta-calcigorgia-spiculifera-kopie-1","provider":"AI - EDITION BERLIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}