Article 5QTR8 Madrid exhibition reimagines Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights for digital age

Madrid exhibition reimagines Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights for digital age

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Sam Jones in Madrid
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Triptych's 21st-century variations comment on technology, consumerism, sex and the planet

Adam is a busy robot poring over the codes of creation. The climate disaster has imprisoned the devil in a block of ice. And a social media sinner is lashed to a hashtag for all eternity while a Terminator stalks through a charnel house hell.

The Garden of Earthly Delights is once again in full, admonitory bloom. More than five centuries after it was completed, Hieronymus Bosch's masterpiece is being reimagined and reinterpreted by 15 international artists using everything from sound art and sculpture to painting, video, installation, gifs and digital animation.

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