SELECTED WORKS BY Felix Gmelin
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Felix Gmelin
Kill Lies All After Pablo Picasso (1937) & Tony Shafrazi (1974)
1996
Oil on canvas
195 x 295 cm |
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Kill Lies All is a reproduction of a section of Pablo Picasso's celebrated 1937 anti-war masterpiece Guernica following its defacement by young art student (and now art dealer) Tony Shafrazi while on loan to The Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1974.
Gmelin's painting takes its title from the words daubed by Shafrazi in red spray paint across the work's surface; an attempt, he claimed afterwards, "to bring the art absolutely up to date, to retrieve it from history and give it life." The painting belongs to an ongoing series in which the artist meticulously replicates well-known paintings and sculptures as they appeared in the immediate aftermath of similar acts of vandalism or disfigurement. |
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ARTIST INFORMATION
OTHER RESOURCES
artfacts.net
Additional information on Felix Gmelin
the-artists.org
Modern and contemporary artists and art - Felix Gmelin
findarticles.com
Felix Gmelin: Maccarone Inc By Margaret Sundell
Felix Gmelin's sense of this impasse is particularly acute--and not surprisingly, considering that his father was a charismatic left-wing professor who rallied his students to political uprising during the glory days of 1968. In Farbtest, Die Rote Fahne II (Color Test, The Red Flag II), 2002, first shown at last year's Venice Biennale and one of the three video works included in the Swedish artist's New York gallery debut, Gmelin puts an oedipal spin on the problem of revolutionary inheritance.
16beavergroup.org
Felix Gmelin Interview By Ronald Jones and Robert Stasinski
During last summer's Venice Biennale, Felix Gmelin's two videos with people running with red flags around an empty city, "Farbtest, Die Rote Fahne II", became one of the most talked about works. The work is both a tribute to his father as much as it discusses how revolution has turned into fashion today, something he continues in his new work "Flatbed, The Blue Curtain", exclusivly online for NU-E.
crac.org
"Nothing Becomes a Man More than a Woman´s Face" By Felix Gmelin; Interview by Annika Hansson
AH (Annika Hansson): Felix, I thought we could take a moment to talk about how you use the computer as a tool in your exhibition, “Nothing Becomes a Man More than a Woman’s Face” and about the concept of beauty. So the title of the exhibition comes from a newspaper article, and the Swedish title comes from a nursery rhyme that every child knows?
gasworks.org.uk
Over the last few years, Felix has been making affectionate replicas of vandalized artworks. In the new work, produced during his residency at Gasworks, he mimics the methodical protocol which seeks to quantify beauty.
temporaryart.org - An exhibition by Felix Gmelin
For the last several years, the Swedish artist Felix Gmelin has been interested in artworks that have literally been destroyed in museums, galleries, or other public spaces. In Art Vandals, Felix Gmelin reinterprets twelve works that have been subjected to vandalism.
felixgmelin.com
Official Felix Gmelin site including Farbtest, Art Vandals, Other works, Essays an reviews
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