Video: Aristocrats on beer cans. White Trash by Kim Elsbrooks
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Portraits of persons of noble blood in gilded frames, as a rule, adorn the walls of old family estates or are included in museum collections. Beer and Coke cans are usually thrown into the trash. It would seem that things are no longer comparable to each other, but the artist Kim Alsbrooks (Kim Alsbrooks) decided otherwise. This is how a series of works "White Trash", or "White Trash", was born.
According to Kim Elsbrooks, the idea of creating the White Trash series came to her during her life in the South of the United States: the artist was incredibly upset by the prevailing ideologies in society, and especially class inequality. “This ideology seems to be based on a mix of myth, prejudiced history and strange sentimentality about old wars and social structures,” the author says. Combining museum portraits once painted in ivory with crushed beer cans and fast food packages, Kim Elsbrooks challenges the perception of the social elite in modern society.
Ladies dressed in dresses in the fashion of the 18th century, and gentlemen in dress coats and uniforms look so that it is easy to imagine how they proudly posed for the artist. And this aristocratic atmosphere scatters to smithereens, colliding with rumpled and frayed "canvases". And although Kim Elsbrooks literally paints on rubbish, for some reason it seems that in the title of her works the word "rubbish" does not refer to canvases at all.
Kim Elsbrooks was born in 1961 in Charleston, South Carolina. He holds a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Arizona. According to Kim, she began exhibiting her work since 1986, including museum displays, public and private collections. The author currently lives and works in Philadelphia, PA.
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