Spectacle#6 (selfportrait, Russian pavillion, Venice biennale) Painting

I used “THE GREEN PAVILION” - the project by Irina Nakhova which represented Russian state at Venice biennale 2015. as the backdrop, being a recognizable commonplace within culture. At the same time, it was not my goal to refer to the artwork nor its author, but rather to point out the status of the piece of art 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. I used myself as a model. to help 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 art directly. Life has put an end to art, by becoming itself artificial, technologically reproductive, replaceable.