Adriana
Adriana Molder has
been developing a body of
work (drawing and, more
recently, painting) that
is centred on the portrait
genre.
These
mostly
large-format pieces are
the product of a need
to observe and confront the people surrounding her
and the world of images, especially cinema, 'the
most beautiful fraud in the world', to use Godard's
description.
Molder’s drawings and paintings are organised into
series. Each series is a project that generally finds its
starting-point in some story, book, film or concept.
Cinema and literature are the most recurring sources
of inspiration for Molder “bigger than life” portraits.
The faces of certain actors, together with several
kinds of photographic images found in newspapers
and magazines, and even in other works of art (mostly
paintings), are the models for her portraits: they
surround her in her studio.
Molder
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