Who Are They - Who Are You ? Painting

_ Who Are They - Who Are You? 2014 70 x 50 cm oil on acrylic sheet, fabric, paper _ This painting is part of the artist's "Childhood" series. In the centre of the work, an image of Mao cut from an art magazine is glued to the acrylic sheet. In its foreground, two teenagers wearing jumpers are turning their backs such that the spectator is unable to see their faces. The artist is thus playing with the notion of the gaze: Is Mao looking at us or at the teenagers? Is the teenager wearing the white jumper looking at his partner or rather at Mao? And as the title suggests, the spectator might also wonder: who are they? Through this interplay of gazes the artist can be construed as questioning identity. Often, the clothes people wear identify them as belonging to a particular class, age or other demographic group. While Mao's clothes belong to another time, his image as painted by Andy Warhol is arguably as iconic as those paintings that adorn the teenager’s jumper. The coloured jumper is a collage of masterpieces, such as Hokusai's "Le Fuji rouge" (1830-1832), Pontorno's "Madonna with Child & St John" (1527-1528), and van Gogh's "Self-Portrait" (1889). The teenagers' identity is not only expressed in the way they wear their clothes but also in the environment they see around them. By Annka Kultys

Painting:Oil on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:19.7 W x 27.6 H x 0.1 D in

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