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"It’s a bold, visionary new idea for the digital age... I cherish the notion of, say, Salvador Dalí’s painting of Olivier as Richard III hanging on a gallery wall alongside the mesmerising image of McKellen looking on at one in watchful fascination." - Michael Billington, The Guardian
"There’s a longstanding practice of an era’s great Shakespeare actors having their portraits documented by their painterly peers... William Hogarth...Thomas Lawrence...and perhaps most famously, John Singer Sargent presented a disturbing vision of Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth... [StageBlock] picks up on the tradition, but updates it for our digital age... The result is uncanny, playful, and futuristic." - Richard Whiddington, Artnet News
"Immortalising the greatest Shakespearean actors of our time through portraits that can blink, breathe and rattle off soliloquies... For hundreds of years, artists have captured the theater’s greatest actors through portraiture. The new show, titled “The Shakespeare Portraits (Act I),” aims to update the practice by bringing the thespians to life using state-of-the-art technology." - Julia Binswanger, The Smithsonian Magazine
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