trash gang

Hiroaki Kano

2017
15.0 x 75.5cm oiol on canvas 2017年

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Inspired by the self-portraits of famous painters, this is a series of five figures composed of rubbish and industrial waste.

(From left to right: Rudolf Hausner, Sōtarō Yasui, Gustave Courbet, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne)

In the original self-portraits, the painters look sharply at the viewer and appear almost unruly. In this work, I have drawn these painters to appear as if they are observing the world around them as if they were gangsters made of modern-day artefacts.