2) (2016), is a mirror fabricated to the same dimensions as Hans Holbein’s The Ambassadors (1533), with the great anamorphic skull ink-jet printed in the appropriate position. Untitled (Holbein’s Skull / You are nothing more than the image others have made of you pt.
The flat metal pieces are shaded to give the illusion of depth, and the form is immediately recognizable - to fans of mecha anime - as a somewhat analytic rendering of the “V-fins” that adorn the forehead of the epochal original Gundam robot. RX-78-2 (You Are Nothing More than the Image Others Have Made of You) (2015), consists of three wall-mounted pieces of powder-coated aluminum: a jewellike red pentagon flanked by two white segments tapering outward and upward to form a wide V. The quote also appears in the titles of two works by Oliver Payne. It’s a line out of World on a Wire, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1973 virtual-reality thriller about the jolts and ruptures within a vast nesting doll of simulated worlds. “You are nothing more than the image others have made of you.”
Courtesy of the Artist and Overduin & Co., Los Angeles. Untitled (Holbein’s skull / you are nothing more than the image others have made of you pt.
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