King of the Wild-Frontier
Künstler/in
Oz Almog
(geb. 1956 in Kfar Saba, Israel)
Dateerworben 1995
ClassificationsMalerei
MediumÖl auf Leinwand
Dimensions60 × 40 × 2,3 cm
Credit LineArtothek des Bundes
Object number23712
DescriptionThis painting is one of about 360 paintings from the conceptual work “The Psychonaut and His Mind Navigator”, which together with some other series explores two conflicting principles: the Artist/the Action Hero/the Savior as perfection consumed egoist, and Anything Goes – the contemporary Art as an industrial scale simulation (the paintings are based on cheap mass-produced comics). Several hired assistants, deliberately chosen for their low painting skills, are guided closely through the process of “delegated self-portraiture”, while Oz Almog's final interventions on paintings are the exercise in restraining the instinctive urge to “make things better ”, a process opposite to one of Old Masters. The intended result is annihilation of one's artistic vanity using self-aggrandizing narrative.Text: Oz Almog
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