#Ölgemälde Painting

In Hans Haacke’s 1982 installation, Ölgemälde, Hommage à Marcel Broodthaer, a painted portrait of US President Ronald Reagan faces a blown-up black-and-white photograph of an antinuclear protest. The two images are connected by a red carpet, while stanchions and a velvet rope protect the portrait. The rawness of the protest photograph is furthered by the inclusion of the black boarder, sprocket holes, and frame numbers. The installation contrasts not only the imagery, but the mediums and styles of the two opposing visuals. History and power is examined in the work by different technologies and methods of capturing visual information and context. The painting of US President Barak Obama in #Ölgemälde commands the same authority that Haacke’s Reagan painting does, utilizing the history of oil painting, as well as the gold frame, stanchions, and velvet rope ornaments. For #Ölgemälde, the blown-up black-and-white photograph is replaced by the current everyday tool of visual communication, a smart phone. The grandeur of the oil painting is juxtaposed with a repeated loop of raw videos from social media capturing abuses of police privilege; actions that led to the preventable deaths of black Americans. Once again, the installation highlights the imbalance of power and authority while going deeper to examine a paradoxical system embedded with racism in the time of the United States’ first black President.

Painting:Paint on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:24 W x 36 H x 3 D in

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