Levente Sulyok, modern art, contemporary art, contemporary painting, contemporary american painting, contemporary hungarian art, contemporary hungarian painting, conceptual painting
 
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13 Follies 96"x96"x1" acrylic paintings on 13 panels 2019

 

 

 

 

 

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13 follies is based on 13 images I found online that illustrate various printer malfunctions. The collection is a dictionary of glitches, where each type of malfunction disturbs the image differently. I modified each of the original images by first “mirroring” them, and then by “inverting” their color. If the glitch turns an image into an anti-image, then the reversal of the anti-image turns the glitch into a positive gesture. The resulting gesture is faithfully rendered in acrylic paint. This mode of working is in resistance to the power of the image, where the image is always understood as a carrier of ideology, and the final work may be seen as contemporary icon painting where “worshiping the glitch” parallels the depiction of saints.