Realitites Painting

Bread is a powerful symbol, not only for Christians but for all of us as humans. Yet the bread I have chosen to depict is not clearly visible. It is covered in nylon and placed partly behind a large label that lists all of the ingredients. Both the nylon and the label are the main starting points of this piece. My painting (oil on canvas, 81 x 116 cm) has been constructed around the tension between the mimetic look of the figurative elements depicted and the (almost) abstract forms of the label. The process of working on this piece started twofold. On the one hand, it aimed to address formal questions regarding space in the two-dimensional surface of the canvas. By adding the label, the surface separates into two levels of perception, one being the image of the bread, i. e. a 'realistic' (disregarding the ambivalence of the terms) approach, and the other - the abstract shape of the label. The other direction of the creative process unfolded around the tension between the label and the bread as a subject matter, i. e. the tension itself has become the centre of the piece. The tension between this figurative depiction of a very familiar object in our everyday life - bread, and the list of ingredients, which vaguely resembles that of bread. In this sense, tension arises between the words and the meanings they convey to us. I. e. when the bread stops being bread? When do we stop perceiving it as bread? And why do we still see it as bread if its substance deviates from that of bread? Do we have to redefine the notion of the word so we can still use it in practical terms? Or, in a sense, we create a new reality, which resembles the simulacra described by Jean Baudrillard?...  I hope that this painting, merging from 'between' the material (canvas) and the non-material (meaning), between the abstract and the figurative, between the words and the images, can offer an intriguing insight into these subject matters.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:45.7 W x 31.9 H x 1.2 D in

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