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the absurdity of horror vacui, the emptiness fools it!

Projects > the absurdity of horror vacui, the emptiness fools it!

My project this time will be in the media of painting with a possiblity to be performed live.I will be painting large sizes of paintings with canvases totally filled p with bodies. The horror vacui, the fear of empty spaces is constantly present even though the bodies are actually empty since is the black line that makes the bodies, in fact the repetitive mode of painting bodies with only 1 color.

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Kusama Obsession
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the absurdity of horror vacui, the emptiness fools it!

Posted: 12/04/12

In my painting is present a huge obsession. It's to fill up the spaces in the canvas but finding out that at the end even though apparently it looks full, it is not.

The painting is actually full of emptiness, here plays a foundamental role the paradox of thinking that this space is...

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the absurdity of horror vacui, the emptiness fools it!

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matlakas

Part of the Louis Vuitton Young Arts Project

SLG Whitechapel Gallery Royal Academy of Arts Tate Britain Southbank Centre
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