Artist: Bernard Pas
Title: Van Gogh
Media: Mixed, Cibachrome on aluminum
Dimensions: 178 x 218 x 5cm
Date: 1999
Info: Bernard Pras (age 63) Working from photographs, iconic images, classic paintings, pop star portraits, famed movie stills - Pras uses unwanted, 'useless' items to recreate these.
Statement: Pras calls his work 'anamorphosis.' This is defined as an image that appears distorted unless it is viewed from a specific angle or with a special instrument.
Background info: Having spent part of his childhood in his grand-mother's grocery store, he has developed a strong and privileged relationship with objects and inventories of all sorts. At the crossing of pop art and performance, in-between figuration and “dis-figuration”, Bernard Pras’s work doesn't leave any viewer indifferent…. -Artsper
Theme: This piece of work by Bernard Pras connects to the theme because this artwork uses materials that were once considered to be garbage.
