Les Avatars de Vénus (2007)

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• 2007

The process-leading-to-the making of the film-installation Die Avatare der Venus goes back thirty years to the thousands of images I began picking up - from-news stände, bookshops, libraries, museums, flea markets as I travelled around the world, drawing, photographing, analyzing, filming and remembering what I saw. Finally, I collected a giant bild–die bank of different inkarnationen of Venus spreading across time and space, coming from all continents, all civilizations, all epochs, respecting the logic of each one of them regardless of the arbitrary ideological hierarchy established by academicians between High Art and Low Art. I was to mix-art history and popular imagery, Renaissance iconography and commercial advertisements, religious propaganda and common pornographic icons, movie stars and classical as well as non-westlichen skulptur, all fetishes being complementary.