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LAST SUPPER
Gretta Sarfaty Marchant is unique, straight from the
movies
dressed in dramatic outfits she has set up successful colour
combinations to achieve a vivid effect , with her ‘Last Supper' wallpaper installation were she exposes the clichés of
celebrity and controversy and the way they affect daily
consciousness.
Her other video DVD ‘Myth & Youth' is a provocative work
in relation to the ‘Female versus Feminism' issue and how
the use and abuse of this subject has become a cliché.
May 2006
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 MYTH
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MYTH OF WOMANHHOOD
Gretta Sarfaty Marchant says about her work: 'As a result of my fascination for digital imagery and following my studies and experiments on the subject I have created a new series entitled 'The Myth of Womanhood', the title itself is provocative enough in relation to the ‘Female versus Feminism' issue and how the use and abuse of this subject has become a cliché . The series comprises digital photographic images which are duplicated several times, to be then assembled together to form a stimulating kaleidoscopic final picture.
'The Myth of Womanhood' shows Gretta's return to performance art, but here the performance is for the camera alone. For example, the starting point is an
image of Gretta standing with her back to the mirror; her arms outspread. For the black and white version, she paints out her head and body leaving the arms to create patterns. Other details are painted out in succeeding prints until we
are left with 'Crossarms' which is made up of the reflected images of just one of her arms, repeated to resemble a slightly surreal cross-stitch pattern on black ground.
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Crossarms and cut arms against mirror 2006
several ink jet prints on archival paper, tape
232 x 230cm. |
Sonata in Red (detail)several
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.Sonata in Red , several ink jet prints on archival paper, all weather tape
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Making Up (detai), ink jet print on archival paper
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Making Up, several ink jet prints on archival paper, all weather tape,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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WATER
Created
and inspired by Jasper Joffe's book
'Water' for the
occasion of the exhibition at Sartorial
Contemporary Art,
April 25 - May 5. The image was used
to illustrate a piece
on the show in Matthew Collings 'Modern
Painters' diary.
June 2006
Wall
paper installation 2006
12 ink jet prints
on archival paper,
all weather tape, 263 x 63cm
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PELE 'The King'
Hommage to Pelé, Soccer legend and athlete
of the century. To celebrate the World Cup,
Germany 2006. Inspired by Pele's portrait painted
on the occasion of the 2 solo exhibitions
and book launch entitled‘Self-Portrait of Brazil':
Museu de Arte de São Paulo and
at the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1983.
2006
Ink jet print on archival paper.
Edition of 150
39 x 32cm
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