Erik Thor Sandberg, Vice Series, c. 2016?“I use the human form as a metaphor to help convey whatever
Erik Thor Sandberg, Vice Series, c. 2016?“I use the human form as a metaphor to help convey whatever the message for a particular work might be. If a figure is broken or misshapen then the idea or notion that they represent is somehow flawed as well. I draw a lot from old allegorical imagery and iconology that made use of the same structure for its narratives. It is also why a good deal of the figures in my paintings are female. When I started the Vice series, I looked at very early representations of vice and virtue all the way back to Prudentius. All of the vices and virtues in his poems were female because the Latin words that represented all of these abstract notions were feminine. I kind of liked sticking to that translation of the text to physical incarnations. The figures I tended to stray from that gender assignation were the vices that I felt connected to the most. Those I made males.” - Erik Thor Sandberg via Don’t Panic Magazineimages from wowxwow.com -- source link
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