Anthropometry 3 Artwork - Limited Edition of 1

Anthropometry is a pseudo-scientific method, which uses a system of measurements and observations to explore and categorize the features of a human face or body shape. This method is used in the work as a symbol for artificially created stereotypes. An example is the European colonization era, which forcefully categorized the ethnicity of their subdued nations, thus deepening the differences and disagreements among these ethnic groups. In the same way, the artificial creation of borders regardless of the natives of these colonies, harbored conditions for future military conflicts. This work shows a contrast between composite portrait and the ambition to create its anthropometrical categorization. A combination of a number of authentic faces of a specific ethnic group coincides in a portrait showing an idealized appearance. The variety of characters, enforced by deliberate displacements, results in a portrait, which is impossible to describe by anthropometrical measurements. Depicted are pairs of ethnical groups, which revealed extreme examples of mutual hatred resulting in open war conflict and genocide.The work uncovers aspects of ethnic intolerance, which present considerable risk in nearly all parts of the world and mainly in wake of the contemporary crisis of multiculturalism.

Mixed Media:Pastel on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1

Size:46.5 W x 60 H x 0.1 D in

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