Excursion (Luc Tuymans in Zagreb) Painting

I appropriated the group of North Korean tourists taking a group selfie somewhere in the vastness of the Internet. This complex scene is a construct, created through digital manipulation and then transfered to the medium of traditional painting. Their occurrence helped me to make visible the manner in which we experience and consume culture in the present-day, postindustrial era. The anesthetized observers are entirely alienated and not even attempting to experience the famous painting made by Luc Tuymans directly. They take part in the spectacle virtually, turning their backs to the artifact causing the affect. Much like in the archetypal Plato’s allegory of the cave, they are experiencing the painting indirectly, via the media image on the display of a mobile phone. Life has put an end to art, by becoming itself artificial, technologically reproductive, replaceable.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:59.1 W x 78.7 H x 1.2 D in

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