Julien Bader
Works
Archive of Men
Artist, Medium, Scale, Item
Dear Gallery - Artist book
Dear Gallery
Exhibition Curiosities
Artist, Medium, Scale, Item
2015 - 2016
Giclée print on paper
In Artist, Medium, Scale, Item, I was interested in reflecting categorisation in art history, and revealing a certain inanity to it by rendering it in an absurd way.
The different works consist of collages of photographic prints, each a scaled reproduction of an actual painting. I thoroughly investigated all of the one painter's body of work — only concentrating on 17th century painters — to extract solely the compositions depicting one particular object, chosen at random. The different items were then isolated from the rest of the image to only leave them as visible.
Statement
Columns, Frans Hals, Oil paintings, Scale 1/10
2016
Harps, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Oil paintings, Scale 1/10
2016
Glasses, Johannes Vermeer, Oil paintings, Scale 1/10
2016
Grapes, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Oil paintings, Scale 1/10
2016
Dogs, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez - Oil paintings - Scale 1/10, 2016
2016