总部位于科罗拉多州的艺术家肖恩•赫金斯(Shawn Huckins)即将举办一场名为“傻瓜的黄金”(Fool’s Gold)的展览。在这本书中，他展示了“擦除”:一组油画和画布上的丙烯画，描绘了杰出政治人物和风景的历史画作，它们的大部分形式都被抹去了。
注意:在赫金斯的过程中没有摄影或ps。所有的作品都是由赫金斯自己的手原创绘画，加上物理上的处理。棋盘格模式是众所周知的图形设计师和微软画图用户一样，它出现时，你擦除图像的一部分。赫金斯使用这个工具作为一个主题，象征着一个更广泛、更重要的公共意识前沿话题:历史的抹杀。赫金斯在他的展览声明中解释说:“为这个系列选择的基本作品，最初是作为先驱者的见证，以及他们在世界上留下的不可磨灭的印记。”“在一个互联网让每个人都成为出版商的时代……互联网的消失迫使我们审视自己关于个人影响力和机构寿命的假设。”
‘Fool’s Gold’ is the upcoming exhibition by Colorado-based artist Shawn Huckins. In it, he presents ‘The Erasures’: a collection of oil and acrylic-on-canvas paintings that depict historical paintings of prominent political figures and landscapes, that have had large parts of their form erased.
Take heed: there is no photography or photoshopping in Huckins’ process. All works are original paintings by Huckins’ own hand, with manipulations physically painted on in addition. The checkerboard pattern is well known to graphic designers and Microsoft Paint users alike, it appears when you wipe out part of an image. Huckins uses this tool as a motif to signify a broader, important topic at the forefront of public consciousness: the erasure of history. “The underlying works chosen for this series originally served as testaments of those who came before us and the indelible mark they left on the world”, Huckins explains in his exhibition statement. “In an era where the internet makes everyone a publisher… The Erasures forces us to examine our assumptions regarding the longevity of individual influence and institutions”.
Author: © Shawn Huckins
Photography: Shawn Huckins