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L'Angélus 34

Product description

From 2022, Ortega will return to painting after ten years solely working conceptually. The exhibition L’Angélus is the first presentation of the series of canvases depicting a pair of stones. The composition refers to Dalí’s painting Archaeological Reminiscence of Millet’s “Angelus” (Réminiscence archéologique de l'”Angélus” de Millet) from 1934, which is itself a reference to Jean-Francois Millet’s L’Angelus from 1859. Hence the work spans 165 years of art history. For Ortega, stones function as pareidolia.**Objects that – as with clouds – are interpreted by the viewers themselves by consciously or unconsciously discovering things or supposed faces in them.



Year
2023


Details

oil on canvas, wood


Size
24 x 33 cm, framed 26,5 x 35,5 x 3 cm


Edition

unique


Authenticity
signed and dated on the back


Exhibitions
16.03.–27.04.2024: ANTONIO ORTEGA. L'Angélus, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Vienna ↱