Defacing Dictators

by Pablo | May 1, 2009 | Blogt, Photos

Pablo

Pablo

Pablo González-Trejo (b. 1973, Cuba) is a Vinça-based artist exploring identity, memory, and entropy through painting and performance, with work held in international public and private collections.

Defacing

Drawing my friends for the second defacing project was an interesting and enriching process where I tried to match my perception of their personality with their portrait and that was quite a reminiscent approach that in most cases brought me a smile. Drawing dictators is dangerous proposition… in my case… I fell empathy for these guys while I was drawing them, I felt under their charisma. I never thought this would be possible. Hence the need to preempt the Defacing process… here are some samples and a couple of studio pics:

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