Armour, from Masks series - Limited Edition 7 of 15 Photograph

On the photographs you see one and the same face staring forward. The portrait is not characterised by the face itself, but by the mask hiding the face. The masks are made of different materials - biological such as flowers, some food items /ham, bread, sugar, egg/, parts of animals such as feathers or hairs, artificial man-made subjects of a daily use /watches, cake moulds, spectacles, banknotes, lace etc./. To use these in order to create a mask is, true, not a traditional way, however e.g. the tin cake moulds somewhat resemble a real armour of the medieval knights. On the other hand, some materials used are really remote to the idea of the mask one puts on the human face. For instance, the collection of old watches belonging once to my family ancestors is put connected together in order to cover the whole face and in fact is creating an impression of the monster, into which face an unstoppable flow of time has been engraved. Even though it is nothing else than a bit odd cover for a head which creation follows rather formal principles of a mask-building, the various materials used in their making demand a different interpretation. Some really work as a kind of an armour protecting a fragile face /like the cake forms, the other rather disclose a face in all its cruelty /like the ham/, evoking a man whose face has been burned with the inner layer of the skin exposed. Still some other masks emphasize a fragility of the face, like the one made of the feathers, which only deepens an impression of the human vulnerability. Mere covering up the face with the expression of the eyes unchanged evokes manifold and strong impression.I am interested in the mask as something that more or less figuratively belongs to our everyday life. It is some kind of a weapon used in order to defend, protect, deter, but also to lure, to increase an attraction, to amuse, to emphasize emotions and so on. .

Photography:Color on Canvas

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1

Size:24 W x 35 H x 0.8 D in

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