Curtis Putralk Chilean, b. 1973
Tel Est Pris, 2017
Ironing burns on white cotton fabric
50 x 163 cm
USD 6,000.00
The piece delves into a universe populated with objects from another time, as a testimony of another world that, even if submerged, coexists with the fast, instantaneous and disposable current...
The piece delves into a universe populated with objects from another time, as a testimony of another world that, even if submerged, coexists with the fast, instantaneous and disposable current world.
'The iron that burns shirts is the remedy that becomes poison, the revenge of the oppressed. The household appliance, the symbolic device of oppression to which the so-called "housewives" are subjects, becomes a creative device; an instrument of transformation, an artist's weapon, a brush, a pencil, a palette.' Dado Amaral
'The iron that burns shirts is the remedy that becomes poison, the revenge of the oppressed. The household appliance, the symbolic device of oppression to which the so-called "housewives" are subjects, becomes a creative device; an instrument of transformation, an artist's weapon, a brush, a pencil, a palette.' Dado Amaral