By means of simple and subtle modifications of older paintings, the German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann sets the images free – in the sense of free of history, of their sublimity, and free of their originating social context, and thereby invite us to meet and think the artworks anew.
Feldmann’s art can in fact be described as political, but at the same time plays very subtly with artistic conventions and the expectations we have of the encounter with art, not least in a museum.
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Suzanne Valadon’s shifting gaze