"Silence of the Muses - Portraits of Painting" - Series
A series of paintings created during 2001, showing white heads against black background. The heads are faceless, some of them without necks.
These are portraits - of whom and of what?
The portraits were created using different painting methods and are described in various ways. Some of them are constructed from a collection of amorphous shapes, joined or adjacent, forming a head. Some are made of internal-external contours, organically developing and growing.
The black background is present in all paintings of this series - in some it is "mat" black, in others glossy black, creating a reflection.
The series is dealing with social and artistic issues:
Is our world black-and-white?
Is black the same black?
Can the same portrait be shown in different ways?
Whose heads are these?
Why do the muses keep silent?
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