Looks like water....

Looks like water…
December 2018

For Retro Fantastic, a group show at the Dutch Design Hotel, Artemis in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 2019, I worked on the theme of the fantastic 50s and 60s.
Those were the days; the future was promising.
From nowadays reality, I look back to the rise of capitalism and consumerism with a nostalgic and critical eye.

In the series images of the good old days are set against a different reality. Tales of hope and glory when men conquered space, science was the future, bombs were power games and plastic was fantastic.

Used in this composition is a publicity from Union Carbide.
In 1956, Union Carbide releases a new chemical: acrylonitrile.
Their ad says: ” Looks like water but it’s really an amazing chemical bringing you wonderful new textile fibres, plastics and rubbers..”

Mixed Media composition on 120 x 120 cm canvas.
Collage transfer and paint.
Acrylic paint, glue, paper, ink, pen, pastels and felt pens.
The original paper on paper composition is enlarged, mirrored and transferred to canvas and later finished with pastels and paint.

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