Meet Laura Scottini (aka Laurina Paperina), an italian artist with a wonderfully wicked sense of humor.
Her collection of drawings, installation and videos in the exhibit "How To Kill The Artists" is a hilarous and purposely ironic twist in which contemporary artists and cartoonists are being attacked by objects of their own creation, most of which brought them great wealth and or fame. I have gone to to trouble to locate images of the original pieces of art which Laurina references because some of you may not be familiar with the artists or the works.
The Installation:
Now, to better understand the following drawings, I have attached the artist's originals below Laurina's drawings/paintings so you can fully appreciate the satire.
Above: Paperina's painting with all the 'artists' from her collection
Jeff Koons:
Above: Paperina's Jeff Koons Vs His Dog
above: Koons' Balloon Puppy
Keith Haring:
Above: Paperina's Keith Haring's Dog.
Above : keith haring's famous dog icon
Joseph Beuys:
Above: Paperina's Joseph Beuys Eaten By Wolf.
Above: Joseph Beuys and Coyote, performance piece
Jackson Pollock:
Above: Paperina's Pollock
Above: Jackson Pollock at work
David Shrigley:
Above : Paperina's David Shrigley
Above: David Shrigley's photo "severed hand"
Maurizio Cattelan:
Above: Paperina's Cattalan Does Not Surf
Above: Maurizio Cattelan's Charlie Don't Surf
Barry McGee:
Above: Barry McGee (aka Twist)
Above: Barry McGee Sprayed
Above: Graffiti artist Barry McGee (aka Twist) at work
Takeshi Murakami:
Above: Paperina's Murakami Vs DOB
Above: Takeshi Murakami's DOB
Andy Warhol:
Above: Paperina's Warhol Vs. Marilyn
Above: Andy Warhol's Marilyn screenprint
Frida Kahlo:
Above: Paperina's Frida Kahlo
Above: Frida Kahlo's Self Portrait as the Little Deer
Jean Michel Basquiat:
Above: Paperina's Basquiat Vs. His Monster
Above: 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 Land
2005, Academy of Fine Arts, Verona, Italy
1999, 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 !!!]Visit her site and see much of her other work.
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.
