The Two Cities - part II
Physical Details
- Medium: Digital on Wood Panel
- Dimensions: 50.0 × 70.0 × 3.0 cm
- Weight: 3.0 kg
- Date: 2021
- Location: France
- Certificate of Authenticity: N°20211231-0024
- Catalogue Number: AQC0217
- Collection: Research on Tensions
Provenance
- Origin: Arnaud Quercy, Paris, France, 2021
Description
The Two Cities (part II)
- research on tensions # 29
“The celestial city stands here before us. You who are its citizen, is it true that it shelters wisdom and peace by relating to divine providence?
Looking at it closely, it seems as if in exile on our land. But far from being indifferent, our two cities struggle with each other as they both aspire to live in peace.”
This creation is inspired by the writings of Saint Augustine, “The City of God”, XIV, 28,1 where he develops the relationship between two cities intermingled but distinct at the same time. One terrestrial and the other celestial, aiming to articulate the temporal and the spiritual, the throne and the altar, the religious and the political.
Arnaud Quercy Digital Creation / AQC0217 / 2020
Where this work lives
- Series: Errances et Praxis
- Collection: Research on Tensions
Other works in this series
- Pre-reflexive freedom
- Hyperbolyc Doubts
- The Bearer of Potentiality
- The Island Of Truth
- Submission
- the Drwarf and the Giant
- Alternative
- Monadology
- Atomic Swerve
- Secretion Of Nothing
- The Thickness Of time
- Soul of the World
- Animal Laborans
- Homo Faber
- Transcendantal Eastheticism
- The Enlightenment
- Paving the way
- The Two Cities - part I
- Amor Fati
- Free Will
- The passage
- The Art Of Rhetoric
- The art of dialectic
- Acceptance of the Absurd
- Monadology - Variation 1
- La Substance Du Monde
- La Substance du Monde - Variation 1
- Pythagoras - Research on tensions #41
- Dasein
- Body and mind proportions – research on tensions #43
- Transcendental Aestheticism 360
Documented at
- Nanopublication — The Two Cities - part II — Digital Image Documentation - aqc0217_img_full_1438x2048_webp
- Nanopublication — The Two Cities - part II — Computational Image Analysis - AQC0217
- Nanopublication — The Two Cities - part II — Physical Specifications
- Nanopublication — The Two Cities - part II — Philosophical Source — Augustine's Two Cities
- Nanopublication — The Two Cities - part II — Visual Translation of the Two Cities
- Nanopublication — The Two Cities - part II — Tension as Compositional Principle
- Nanopublication — The Two Cities - part II — Digital Medium and Process
Thematic Elements
Technical Notes
- Format: Large
- Type: Artwork
- Image resolution: 1438x2048 px
Page Information
- Last updated : 2026-04-28
- Language: EN | Version française