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Rashid Rana
Two Ways to a View I (Napoleon Crossing the Alps), 2016-17C print + Plexi Face-mount2 panels, Each:
85 1/8 x 70 7/8 in
216 x 180 cmEdition of 5Copyright The ArtistRashid Rana transposes imagery from one time and place to another through manipulation, repetition and rearrangement. In the Transliteration series, Rana does not simply translate the original imagery, but rather...Rashid Rana transposes imagery from one time and place to another through manipulation, repetition and rearrangement. In the Transliteration series, Rana does not simply translate the original imagery, but rather uproots it from its classical and European contexts; violently dragging it into the pixelated perspective of the contemporary global viewer. Two Ways to a View I, 2016-2017, is a digital image of a 19th century painting titled Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David, (re)constructed twice to create a mirror-image of itself. Whereas the (reconfigured) macro views appear to a be mirror-like duplication, a closer look at its details suggest an inherent contradiction in the image, or the notion of nationalism and overt patriotism, the subject of many paintings by Jacques-Louis David.
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