DATING A ROYAL
galería elba benítez en kvadrat. Madrid. 2012
Photographs by: Oak Taylor

PAINTINGS:

DATING A ROYAL
2012
Óleo sobre lienzo.
Oil on canvas.
115 x 75 cm.

ROYAL RAJAH RUBY
2012
Óleo sobre lienzo.
Oil on canvas.
115 x 75 cm.

NEED SUNGLASSES?
2012
Óleo sobre lienzo.
Oil on canvas.
50 x 50 cm.

THE COLOR TO WATCH
2012
Óleo sobre lienzo.
Oil on canvas.
73 x 50 cm.

PURPLE WITH A PURPOSE
2012
Óleo sobre lienzo.
Oil on canvas.
73 x 50 cm.

AN AFFAIR IN RED SQUARE
2012
Óleo sobre lienzo.
Oil on canvas.
100 x 100 cm.

DUTCH TULIPS
2012
Óleo sobre lienzo.
Oil on canvas.
73 x 100 cm.

I EAT MAINELY LOBSTER
2012
Óleo sobre lienzo.
Oil on canvas.
73 x 50 cm.

SIGNIFICANT OTHER COLOR
2012
Óleo sobre lienzo.
Oil on canvas.
73 x 50 cm.

RUSSIAN NAVY
2012
Óleo sobre lienzo.
Oil on canvas.
150 x 200 cm.

MY PRIVATE JET
2012
Óleo sobre lienzo.
Oil on canvas.
100 x 170 cm.

information:

In Dating a Royal which was created specially for the Elba Benitez Gallery and KVADRAT Carrazana has painted a series of monochrome oil paintings that replicate exactly the colors of a popular brand of nail polish, from which the paintings take their titles. From Malevich to Ad Reinhardt, monochrome painting has held a special place in the history of abstraction. It represents one of most defiant challenges to the canon of figurative painting, while at the same time it tends to accrue its own heavy load of symbolic and interpretive meaning, not infrequently laced with heavy-handed mysticism. By creating sumptuous, even virtuosic monochrome works that refer specifically to something as far removed from high art as women’s nail polish, Carrazana simultaneously partakes and upends this male-dominated occasionally ponderous tradition.

George Stolz. (excerpt - press release)

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