THE APPROPRIATION OF OLD PAINTINGS
I worked with all possible scenes of people‘s everyday life from the past displayed in famous artworks. I put them in presence with care to critically highlight the changes.
I worked with all possible scenes of people‘s everyday life from the past displayed in famous artworks. I put them in presence with care to critically highlight the changes.
Caravaggio - The Incredulity of Saint Thomas / The understanding of a human body
Same as Jesus will a man of modern times have a "scar" on his body forever. Voluntarily. I criticize those people who (as thusands of others) have butterflies on their calf, flying birds on their neck, slogans saying "think different", because it is IN... I understand it as an expression of freedom but can a person going with crowd be really free?
Same as Jesus will a man of modern times have a "scar" on his body forever. Voluntarily. I criticize those people who (as thusands of others) have butterflies on their calf, flying birds on their neck, slogans saying "think different", because it is IN... I understand it as an expression of freedom but can a person going with crowd be really free?
Vincent Van Gogh - Shoes / Need x fashion x health
Shoes are one of the greatest objects of advertisement and commercials. People choose them mainly by the brands and their newest design. Who cares which factory full of poorly paid people had to work many days to create them?
René Magritte - The Lovers / Last days
This Earth is literally floded by decomposable plastics. It does not only harm nature and animals, but indirectly even us. We live in a plastic bubbles and we do not care about the life outside. It is just a question of time, when we start to choke. But why care that consumerism kills when we can buy everything we want.
This Earth is literally floded by decomposable plastics. It does not only harm nature and animals, but indirectly even us. We live in a plastic bubbles and we do not care about the life outside. It is just a question of time, when we start to choke. But why care that consumerism kills when we can buy everything we want.
Michelangelo Buonarroti - The Creation of Adam / Cremation after creation
Life was given to a man but he does not appreciate it. I put the act of creation and the moment of man voluntarily taking his life in contrast.
Leonardo Da Vinci - Saint John the Baptist / Man of modern times
Saint John the Baptist put hand on his heart and with the other one he is pointing at his symbol and refers to God. The man of modern times does not need God, he has pizza and TV which is telling him what he needs, how to behave and whom to believe.
Jacques Louis David - The Death of Marat / Workoholism
In the painting there is Marat, the revolutionist, who was killed by Charlotta because of the judgement of killing people, he signed everyday. The man of modern times died after a hit of electricity while trying to plug his notebook in the socket. Machines are saving our time to live but we do not actually enjoy the extra time with our family of friends, we waste it on another work and we are killing ourselves with our own "time saving machines".
In the painting there is Marat, the revolutionist, who was killed by Charlotta because of the judgement of killing people, he signed everyday. The man of modern times died after a hit of electricity while trying to plug his notebook in the socket. Machines are saving our time to live but we do not actually enjoy the extra time with our family of friends, we waste it on another work and we are killing ourselves with our own "time saving machines".
René Magritte - The son of a man / Anonymity
We show our true face only to people who deserve knowing us. Or online, where we can be anyone and do anything we want. Is it okay that some people (or even children) can not exist without their virtual SELF?
Johannes Vermeer - The Milkmaid / The quality
We have countless types of food from food producing companies, but the difference between them makes just the package. The trend is to cook from thrift instant products to spend less time in kitchen. Is the key of healthier and more quality food in contemporary food industry or in returning back to nature?
We have countless types of food from food producing companies, but the difference between them makes just the package. The trend is to cook from thrift instant products to spend less time in kitchen. Is the key of healthier and more quality food in contemporary food industry or in returning back to nature?
Georges de La Tour - Magdalene with the Smoking Flame / The technical progress
There is a woman sitting in her room all night thinking about the message of one of the books she just read, asking herself questions about life and death. The man of the modern times is spending his evenings the way he does not have to think about anything after a hard day of work. He is playing videogames, watching videos and chatting on social networks. In fact, he is not trying to recreate the reality he is living in, he is trying to escape from it.
Jean-Honoré Fragonard - A Young Girl Reading / The technical progress
Even I do remember the times when the shelves were full of books which we loved to be re-reading over and over again. We enjoyed the smell of ink and beautiful book covers. Nowadays more and more people have all the books in one plastic case. The value of everything decreases because we are able to download everything in a few minutes and.... delete it even faster.
Even I do remember the times when the shelves were full of books which we loved to be re-reading over and over again. We enjoyed the smell of ink and beautiful book covers. Nowadays more and more people have all the books in one plastic case. The value of everything decreases because we are able to download everything in a few minutes and.... delete it even faster.
Jan van Eyck - Portrait of a Man in a Red Turban / Mirror, mirror on the wall..
The painting of old man is a representative portrait. He looks very proud because it was a big honour for people to be immortalize. Todays people are not honored, if you just want to take a picture of them, they are afraid of their representation. The beauty of individuality is repressed because some people feel to be at the bottom of the beauty scale that our society created. I wish people loved themselves and was not afraid of the camera, they will always look better than those photoshopped people in some magazine. Because they are real.
The painting of old man is a representative portrait. He looks very proud because it was a big honour for people to be immortalize. Todays people are not honored, if you just want to take a picture of them, they are afraid of their representation. The beauty of individuality is repressed because some people feel to be at the bottom of the beauty scale that our society created. I wish people loved themselves and was not afraid of the camera, they will always look better than those photoshopped people in some magazine. Because they are real.
Bartolomé Estéban Murillo - A Girl and her Duenna / Social
Day by day, people are becoming more and more inaccessible and unfliendly to their surrounduings. By moving people to big cities there is an enormous anonymity, you can not tell, you know all your neighbours and you care about them. I hate that people care just about themselves and their property.
