Caravaggio
Medusa
1595-1598
oil on canvas mounted
on a convex wooden shield
55 x 48 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi,
Florence
My
version of Medusa is a painting on a light box with big holes. It is a
portrait of Noami Watts as the jellyfish (funny translation of Medusa of
course) of Caravaggio. The portrait is extracted from the King Kong movie
by Peter Jackson, just when Naomi is sandwiched between a tyrannosaur and
King Kong. But if you look closely you only see the many spots of the Hollywood
studio lights in her eyes. I added neon lamps behind the painting to create
wedged stupefaction between two technical moments, and the holes are connectors.
Marcel Berlanger,
2014
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Marcel Berlanger (BE)
Enseigne
Méduse
front
front
2011-2012
aluminium lightbox,
neons, oil on glass fibre
260 x 160 x 18 cm
Marcel Berlanger (BE)
Enseigne
Méduse
back
2011-2012
2011-2012
aluminium lightbox,
neons, oil on glass fibre
260 x 160 x 18 cm
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