This work explores tulip transformation through bloom, peak, and decay stages—"regeneration" implying cyclical renewal rather than linear death. Created in 2012, the piece demonstrates Gerliczki's foundational technique of scanning multiple tulip states and digitally layering them to show temporal progression simultaneously. The work subverts traditional vanitas message of inevitable decay by emphasizing regeneration, suggesting that while individual flowers die, the cycle perpetually renews. The title's plural "regenerations" hints at multiple transformations captured within single impossible image.
As an artist, He is fascinated by the opulence and richness of still life of the golden age of Dutch painting in the 17th c. These Still-life works, of course, symbolize mortality and the temporal nature of material goods. In his still life, He built these images with the same symbolic references but with the best quality, you can get. By playing with light and dark, He captures the beauty of every flower and each object down to the smallest detail. In addition to photography, he uses high-resolution scans to achieve extreme detail. He use photography as a base, but in the end, he arrive at an image that nobody could actually shoot as a photograph.He is not a photographer in the traditional sense, but he does take many pictures and he needs a lot of layers. In his still life of flowers and objects, he creates a balance between objects and living materials with light and shadow and the best quality. He created the photographic illusion of a painting from the golden age in a new tech way by scanning every object individually and combining these with photographs that he took. The construction takes a lot of time and months of post-production. In his work, everything has to be perfect. It’s like a movie. The light and color have to be right. (It is quite obsessive work.) He loves the idea of “the impossible image” – the idea of there being no limits and of using the photograph as the basis for an image that’s in his head.
Photography tulip regenerations explore floral life metamorphosis —early digital layering work showing bloom, decay and renewal simultaneously. Archival pigment print. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach.
Tulip Regenerations - Floral Metamorphosis Photography Digital Layers, 2012
Tulip regenerations, 2012
From the series Still Life
Archival Pigment print
Dimensions: 31.5 H x 25.5 W in.
Edition of 6 + 2AP
Unframed
Gerliczki was born in Nyíregyházain, Hungary in 1971 and he was raised in a Budapest orphanage during Hungary’s Communist regime. He is a filmmaker, painter, and computer artist who currently works as a graphic designer in Antwerp, London, Paris, and New York. As a graphic designer and post-production artist he has been involved with various publications including Elle Décor, House Beautiful, Zoo Magazine, Io Donna, Departures (US), Cosmopolitan (France), Paris Review, Travel & Leisure, and The Guardian UK, among others. Commercially, he has also been involved with Thierry Mugler, Christian Lacroix, Illy, and L’Artisan Parfumeur Paris, among others.
