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The Sixteen Most Beautiful Men |
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The Sixteen Most Beautiful Men (8 left profiles), 2012, oil on canvas, 35x241cm, private collection |
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The Sixteen Most Beautiful Men, is an investigation into screen desire featuring portraits of male film stars from early cinema to today. The portraits are painted from images culled from an extensive collection of film stills, and are methodically organised according to the placement of the star's face in an almost ethnological way and accompanied by The Sixteen Most Beautiful Men (in profile) Tranzine. This very personal look at unobtainable desire and the problematic area of male beauty is inspired by Andy Warhol's Screen Tests, Milanese Renaissance portraiture and most importantly the lingering gaze of the cinematic close-up.
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The Sixteen Most Beautiful Men (8 right profiles), 2012, oil on canvas, 35x241cm |
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Eight More Beautiful Men |
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| Tainted Love exhibition | Tranzine #004 The Sixteen Most Beautiful Men (in profile) |
Topman Generation interview | ARTY 31 Tainted Love |
Coventry Telegraph Review |
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Eight More Beautiful Men (looking to the left) - part 1&2, 2012, oil on canvas, 35x120cm each