Video: Death and the triumph of glamor in the "Waste Paper" art project by Ch & P Juinior
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
If you believe the writer Pelevin, then all modern culture can be expressed in the form of the abbreviation D&G, which stands for Discurse & Glamor. The main weapon of mass destruction bringing glamor to the masses is, of course, bright glossy magazines. The retouched models, dressed in designer dresses, propagandize idleness and external gloss from the pages smelling of elite perfumery. But not everyone is susceptible to their influence, and some even have enough strength to resist this glamorous attack. Our today's heroines Alexandra Chichkan and Alina Pivnenko belong to the last category.
Two Kiev-based artists, better known as Ch & P Juinior, have joined the ranks of the art world fighting against glamor. Outrageous Ukrainian writer Irena Karpa, together with a group of like-minded people, staged a public burning of glossy magazines. No less shocking collective "Quest Pistols" informs us from the stage that "the days of glamor are numbered." And Alexandra and Alina took scissors in their hands and cut the idle gloss into thousands of tiny pieces.
However, here is a paradox: having destroyed several hundred kilograms of magazines, the artists did not stop there and created about 20 portraits from cut pieces … the very same celebrities that are presented to us on the pages of magazines as sex symbols or fashion icons. Here Madonna and Amy Winehouse, Donatella Versace and Bjork, Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy …
All portraits are rather large - 260x200 cm. Knowing this, we must pay tribute to the artists who had the patience to lay out mosaic portraits from miniature scraps. It is interesting to look at the works of Ch & P Juinior up close, studying the elements of which these or those parts of celebrities are composed. And from afar, portraits of luxurious divas resemble paintings painted with paints - Alexandra and Alina have a wonderful sense of color.
Many argue that the “Waste Paper” portraits are even more glamorous than the magazines from which they were created. Well, maybe so. But that's a completely different story.
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