Minecraft at Tate: in gaming, the Renaissance has returned

This new collaboration is proof that video games hark back to an artistic age obsessed with realism and perspective – the Renaissance

The spaces created by video games are sublime and majestic. We wander in desolate cityscapes, eerie caverns, on rolling freeways. These worlds are three-dimensional, physically (if not emotionally) deep and complex. What could be more modern, more futuristic?

Except we’ve been here before.

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