Reassembling Painting Painting

Acrylic, acrylic based medium, UV protection, oil, varnish on pigment prints on canvas. The artwork comes ready to hang. It will be shipped in 2 boxes, each 125 x 175 x 11 cm, with a volume weight of 50 kg each. The basis of the artwork is an overpainting of an auction house advertisement of Andy Warhol's »Orange Marilyn«. The overpainting was scanned and broken down on the computer until the original image began to dissolve. The result was printed out as Ultrachrome inkjet prints and mounted on canvas (collage) with a transparent medium UV protection. The overpainting serves as an under-painting that loops behind expressionist brushwork. Segments of inkjet prints are sanded and cut back to reveal glimpses of paint creeping out from underlying layers. Barely visible beneath the obliterated surface, fragments of text and numerals emerge, recalling written communications, uniting detached image and aggrandized emotion as a parody of media advertisements. The print allows the paint to be its most animal expression of itself, while creating a charming opposition between the sculptural qualities of paint and the flat surface of the print, leaving a picture plane marked by an effortlessly elegant dance of smudges, puddles and saturated strokes. Artwork 2 panels. Each panel 120 x 170 cm will be shipped in one crate. I do need approximately 1 week to order the crate. Dimension: 127 x 180 x 30 cm