Selfie (Dumas) Painting by Stjepan Šandrk

Painting: Oil on Canvas.

This is another painting from my Spectacle series, representing a (snowboarder) tourist taking selfie with a work of Marlene Dumas as a backdrop. It was not my goal to refer to this work nor it's author directly, but rather to point out the status of the painting as a marketing product, a spectacle reduced to a recognizable poster. And it is the main task of a spectacle to present to us, using various forms of mediation, the world we are no longer able to experience directly.