Slick and Satanic Pentagram use Rococo influence of ornamentation and theatrics to subvert the history of painting.
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Each installation explores a visual tension between the low art of kitsch and the high art symbolism of paint. A pictorial symbol of passion, the cherub exists simultaneously as a non-threatening, vulnerable form and as a stand-in for the sexually suggestive. Building on the varied history of men and paint, these projects highlights plasticity as point of vulnerability.
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