Prev we have the article about Rob, Kristen, Dakota's painting at the gallery HERE ..Now the artist, Richard Philip will answer the question why he wanna paint 'Twilight's Actors'
NEW YORK— For "Most Wanted," a new show that is slated to open at White Cube in London next week, painter Richard Phillips — acting as the official pied piper of tween celebutantes — has lured the A-list of the precociously sultry set into the gallery and trapped them there, where they toothily smile out at star-struck passersby. OK, that's not exactly what he's done. Actually, in the show, which will run through March 5, Phillips is displaying ten large-scale oil paintings of Taylor Swift, Zac Efron, Dakota Fanning, Kristen Stewart, Justin Timberlake,Miley Cyrus, Robert Pattinson, Chace Crawford, Taylor Momsen, and (one of these things is not like the other one)Leonardo DiCaprio.
The paintings almost begin to look like teenybopper posters — like something you'd paste on your wall as a 12-year-old. And the weird thing about those posters is that they represent a kind of pre-sexual fetishization. How does sex play into these images?
The paintings are designed to emphasize the heightened state of celebrity presence. The outlines around the portraits serve as secular halos which are meant to separate these stars from a dimensional representation of reality. Though they are modeled with flesh-toned paint, the overall feeling is that of a decal that one might buy in a supermarket. My intention of using a painterly realism and tween decal formalism is to build an irreconcilable visual condition. This feeling of irresolution is closely associated with many of the forms of entertainment running the gauntlet of pre-adult life. For all of these entities, the prohibition of overt sexual or non-heterosexual behavior is strictly maintained in order to increase the appearance that these stars are involved in producing. If one looks at the "Twilight" series objectively, a comparison could be drawn to the avant-garde practice of John Cage, Merce Cunningham, or Steve Reich. Instead of sustaining a note or holding an awkward position or repeating an appropriated rhythmic progression, the actors of "Twilight" sustain irresolvable teenage emotions for 2 1/2 hours without any sexual release. The production of this experience taps into a universal tween condition that once passed through can only be accessed again through externally induced psychological trauma. Sex is omnipresent in all these images but is experienced unreservedly only by those currently going through availability and the capability to satisfy forbidden sexual desire. All of this translates to a multi-billion dollar industry that may or may not lend its agency of legitimization to raise awareness of that which has the pretense to call itself contemporary art.
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