Video: Modernized Porcelain Figures by Penny Byrne
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-10 02:10
Porcelain figurines are a symbol of comfort, bourgeois life and antiquity. They can be presented to respectable ladies and mentally placed on a virtual shelf above the fireplace. All this does not seem to apply to the work of Penny Byrne. First, her characters are blatantly modern, and although the porcelain figurines are dressed in 18th century costumes, this does not prevent them from portraying protesters or prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Secondly, Penny Byrne's favorite themes are very uncomfortable: war, blood, protests. Even if we have an ordinary madame with a rooster, she cannot do without a mask (the modernized statuette is called "H5N1").
Not all ballerinas are equally useful, especially when Australian artist Penny Byrne has created a new image for them. Old porcelain figurines take on a new life from her, sometimes such that if these little men had hair, they would have stood on end long ago. The point is that Penny Byrne is not only an artist, but also a defender of human rights. Her ironic and frightening work is a kind of call for changes in society.
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