BODY OF WORK: OLD MASTERS, 2018 (work in progress)

Reverence for the so-called "Old Masters" is often nothing more than museum-bound petrification—a canonized veil of yellowed varnish and unquestioned devotion. This series continues the surgical dissection of classical visual worlds: the sacrosanct motifs are not reverently reproduced, but ruthlessly wrenched from their sublime context and stripped of their auratic inviolability.

Grel­le, ar­ti­fi­zi­el­le Far­ben und gra­fi­sche Stör­struk­tu­ren kol­li­die­ren fron­tal mit den his­to­ri­schen Bild­kör­pern. Wo die aka­de­mi­sche Tra­di­ti­on ge­fäl­li­ge Har­mo­nie be­schwert, er­zeugt die to­xi­sche Ko­lo­rie­rung ei­ne be­wuss­te vi­su­el­le Dis­so­nanz. Das Fleisch wird aus dem his­to­ri­schen Schlum­mer ge­ris­sen und als ent­zau­ber­tes, ro­hes Zei­chen in ei­ne künst­lich kon­stru­ier­te Bild­flä­che ge­wor­fen.

“Poisoning the Museum Varnish”

© 2018 Edin Mustafic – Old Masters 

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Pro­duk­ti­on

Ti­tel: In­ter­pre­ta­ti­on: RU­BENS | Jahr: 2014 |  Tin­te: Ep­son Ul­tra Chro­me K3 Pig­ment Ink | Pa­pier: Hah­ne­müh­le Fine Art Ul­tra­smooth, 305 g/m² | Rah­mung: Mu­se­ums­rah­mung weiss, Ga­le­rie­kar­ton, Mu­se­ums­rück­kar­ton, säu­re­frei | Glas: Cla­ri­ty 92% / Mu­se­ums­glas

Edi­ti­on A: Print: 48,3×32,9 cm | Auflage: 5 (+1 AE)
Edi­ti­on B: Print: 105,8×71,1 cm | Auflage:  1 (+1 AE)

Work note, Vienna, 2018:
Continuation of the deconstructive method from the Rubens series: deliberate extraction of art-historical image fragments, confrontation with atypical acid and signal colors, as well as graphic interventions. An open-ended experimental arrangement to sabotage canonized viewing habits.

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