Lucy McKenzie - Contemporary Artists

Olga Korbut

Olga Korbut The Saatchi Gallery
 

Lucy McKenzie

Olga Korbut

1998
Oil on Canvas

107 x 213.5cm

In her portrait of Olga Korbut, McKenzie captures not the gymnast's moment of crowning glory (winning three gold medals at the '72 Olympics) – but rather her crushing parallel bars defeat which won her the hearts of millions. Fragmenting the image to a 'photo-finish', McKenzie conveys a split second of historical immortalization in a freeze frame as imprecise and intangible as the real memory.
 
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