Jorge Rodríguez

fig. 167. Vladímir Remek.

Painting - 2021
Unique
Acrylic on canvas
70 x 70 cm
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
1,200 USD
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Artwork Statement

1. First Czechoslovak astronaut in space.
2. First cosmonaut from a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States.
It is a series of paintings and drawings focused on the spatial historical portrait, where I address the ideological theme, specifically the space competition developed between the United States and the former Soviet Union, in the midst of the cold war. They are images of cosmonauts and astronauts whose facial anatomy I distorted and transformed into monsters. The portraits of these space pioneers represented to the world the ideals of their nation. These characters were news in the media and drew a lot of attention from those who followed all this propaganda machinery, which did nothing but divide the world into factions and create tensions. Millions of people remained expectant, almost no one was oblivious to this space phenomenon. The two superpowers rivaled each other in areas of science and technology, but without ever losing sight of the ideological-propagandistic component.

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