Haven’t seen Surveillance Camera...

Haven’t seen Surveillance Camera yet?, 2013, oil on canvas, 100x180 cm (MOCAK Krakow)

The works were made on the basis of photographs found in the 1950s magazine Wiener Film Revue. The first painting is a frame from the film Gibraltar, in which Erich von Stroheim almost strangles Viviane Romance, aroused by her laughter. This scene is accompanied by a caption which, in the artist’s intention, justifies the brutal gesture.

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Patricia and Cornel in Vienna

Patricia and Cornel in Vienna, 2013, oil on canvas, 100x180 cm (MOCAK Krakow)

The second painting was inspired by an article about the state of the two actors Cornel Wilde and Patricia Knight in Vienna. In both canvases the artist draws on his own film Surveillance Camera, which deals with the individualisation of the life of an ordinary person by a city’s CCTV cameras.

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Mary Castle Presents

Mary Castle predstavlja, 2023, oil on canvas 100x180 cm (detail)

Setting it as a counterpoint to frames from the golden era of Hollywood cinema, he succeeds in achieving a striking contrast. Two pictures from this Cyclos, Haven't seen the surveillance camera yet? and Patricia and Cornel in Vienna are posted in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków as a permanent exponents of contemporary art.

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