Above: Paperina's Keith Haring's Dog.Above : keith haring's famous dog iconJoseph Beuys:Above: Paperina's Joseph Beuys Eaten By Wolf.Above: Joseph Beuys and Coyote, performance piece
Above: Paperina's PollockAbove: Jackson Pollock at workDavid Shrigley:Above : Paperina's David ShrigleyAbove: David Shrigley's photo "severed hand"Maurizio Cattelan:Above: Paperina's Cattalan Does Not SurfAbove: Maurizio Cattelan's Charlie Don't SurfBarry McGee:Above: Barry McGee (aka Twist)Above: Barry McGee SprayedAbove: Graffiti artist Barry McGee (aka Twist) at workTakeshi Murakami:Above: Paperina's Murakami Vs DOBAbove: Takeshi Murakami's DOBAndy Warhol:Above: Paperina's Warhol Vs. MarilynAbove: Andy Warhol's Marilyn screenprintFrida Kahlo:Above: Paperina's Frida KahloAbove: Frida Kahlo's Self Portrait as the Little DeerJean Michel Basquiat:Above: Paperina's Basquiat Vs. His MonsterAbove: Jean Michel Basquiat, untitled
Above: Although not ready for download quite yet, she has animated videos which will be available for viewing on her site.
More about the artist:
Laurina Paperina (in english "Little Laura - Little Duck")1980, Born in Rovereto. She lives and works between Mori (Trento, Italy) and Duck Land2005, Academy of Fine Arts, Verona, Italy1999, Art Institute, Rovereto (Trento), Italy
The artists' statement (in italian followed by english):
Io gioco con l'arte.Il mio lavoro è un'elaborazione ironica della contemporaneità e sulle identità che la compongono. Elaborazione che nasce sintetizzando un linguaggio dove diversità e contraddizione si compenetrano e dove l'influenza dalla cultura di internet e della tv, dei fumetti e dei video games, della fantascienza e dei cartoons, generano un complesso insieme di elementi che si trasformano in un apparente caos ma lasciano intravedere delle forme riconoscibili.I personaggi che popolano i miei lavori sono dunque ironia dipinta e sono frutto della mia fantasia, sono forme dinamiche e colori sgargianti di una sorta di "virtual reality" simile ad un video games dove la finzione e l'apparenza giocano simulando la realtà.In sintesi il mio lavoro è un gioco ironico sulle sue esperienze che non ha un fine ben preciso se non quello di rappresentare le diversità di pensiero e come queste possano coesistere,come se ogni elemento fosse un frammento indispensabile di un puzzle.
[I'm sorry...my english isn't good !!!]I play with art. My work is an ironic elaboration of contemporaneity and the elements which are part of it. It is an elaboration stemming from a language sysnthesis where diversity and contradiction are intertwined and where the influence of internet culture, TV, comic strips, video games, sci-fi and cartoons are generating a complex set of elements, which, although turning into an apparent chaos, are letting themselves be seen in recognizable forms.Characters populating my works are "painted irony": they are the fruits of my fantasy, dynamic forms and flamboyant colors of some sort of virtual reality resembling a video game where fiction and appearance interplay and simulate reality.In sum, my work is an ironic game on my experiences, which has no specific purpose but to represent divergencies of thought and the way such divergencies may coexist, as though each element were an indespensable fragment of a jigsaw-puzzle.Visit her site and see much of her other work.
