Screaming Venus
This piece emerged from the challenge I was given at the time while I was working on a similar theme. The drawing was created by a machine, seeded from a digital collage of Botticelli's Venus and a still from Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 silent film 'The Battleship Potemkin', from which Francis Bacon copied the face of his screaming pope. The work allows us to see the copy on two levels: on one hand, the theme of Venus is perfectly visible, a literal copy; on the other, it refers to an induced copy of Bacon's work, thus extending the copy beyond the physical presence of the work presented to the mental copy we have of Bacon's infamous work.
Submitted to the The Curators 'COPY/PASTE' OpenCall.
Criado/Created: 28-08-2025 [21:34]
Última actualização/Last updated: 06-09-2025 [15:20]
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