A.G.N.W.

A.G.N.W.

Year2025

MediumDigital Artwork on Paper

Dimensions 30 × 30 × 1 cm

I've found an interesting drawing of a nude artist in this fine-de-siècle or secession style (Jugendstil) on Facebook, and I'm not sure who made it, either it was a living artist or AI. Nevertheless, I used it as the base for my artwork, performed by my digital manipulations, changing it's beige colour into black and white, with shades of gray, and red, then adding the suprematistic geometrical elements - a black triangle on a white plate and a black circle on a white plate, plus giving the artist a white bondage on his arm with the black cross. Thus I marked him as myself, doing some artistic work, either drawing something or writing. You can't see it, yet you can imagine. On the edge of the stone plate, the sign in German "Was ist Kunst?" (What is art?) is written three times, stressing the dilema of the last centuries. That's also an important premise of Laibach's artworks: the cover-works are not just copies, they are new originals with their own contexts and meanings.