Word: antiportrait
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...painted in 2001 in a pseudo-Pop Art style, shows a close-up of a blond schoolgirl's face abruptly eclipsed by a blue-black swathe across her eyes. Maria de Corral, who is curating the show when it moves to Madrid in June, called it "a kind of antiportrait." What unifies the show is the sheer size of the pictures. "The dimension is an integral part of this art," says Schirn director Max Hollein, who curated the Frankfurt show. "The scale gives the pictures a tremendous physicality. It turns them into almost sculpted objects...
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