Apelles painting Campaspe, van Haecht (II)

About Lluis Barba Cantos

Social criticism and willful iconographic boundary crossing merge into new subversive forms in Lluís Barba’s epic collages. The Catalan artist takes the most significant works from the history of art and swamps them underneath contemporary symbols, artworks, tourists, and celebrities. Like an invasion, these visitors charge upon the old masterpieces and convert them into scenes of a turbulent exhibition, positioning art and reception in an ambivalent relationship.The artworks by the Barcelona based artists stem from conceptual thinking and demonstrate their own ironic and symbolic contextual language. Barcode tattoos stand for loss of identity, black and white the past, and color the… Read more

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