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self-portraits

#appropriation #large #oil #painting

The ongoing series of paintings were made by selecting reproductions of well-known living artists, like George Baselitz, Julian Schnabel and Albert Oehlen, printing them in large scale (often, larger than the original) and painting self-portraits over the figures in the images. Being a young artist myself, it became a way of figuring my position within the recent art history. Would it be enough to reproduce the already-aclaimed images and paint my self-portraits on top of them? Would the painting embed the history of the images that are used? Is it “blind” appropriation or is it a way of continuing those who came before?

self-portrait (over Baselitz)

231 x 287 cm. oil on print on vinyl

self-portrait (over Baselitz)

231 x 287 cm. Oil on print on vinyl

self-portrait (over Baselitz)

223 x 284 cm. oil on print on vinyl

self-portrait (over Baselitz)

223 x 284 cm. oil on print on vinyl

self-portrait. David and Goliath (over Schnabel)

231 x 287 cm. Oil on print on vinyl

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