ABSENCE
ABSENCE
7 elements
Séroux
1 painting 90 / 180
2020
5 acrylic on paper 70 / 50
Alex Svi
1 question
The question
ARE WE LOST IN CONTROL
“I say unto you: one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. I say unto you: you still have chaos in yourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
CULTURAL CONTEXT
The painting echoes three photographs
from the ‘Out of the night’ series
from the Ghabor Collection.
The current painting, created in 2020, is an extension of a 2002 painting based on a Versace retrospective presented in London that year.
Press
Versace at the V&A is the largest exhibition devoted to a single designer ever staged by the museum, which houses a world-class collection of clothes spanning 400 years. The exhibition, which opens to the public on Thursday, has been curated by Claire Wilcox, the museum's leading authority on 20th century fashion. ‘Versace at the V&A’, Victoria & Albert Museum - London.
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The painting can be linked to the more general theme of confinement, the attempt to escape, the impossible otherness towards others that other paintings also evoke.
It expresses a tense superimposition between an obvious attraction on the one hand, and a restraint on the other, marked by an imperceptible, impassable pane of glass.
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