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Apollon

Print
1995 (designed), 2012 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Olga Tobreluts (born 1970, Russia) trained as an architect but is internationally prominent as a painter and multi-media artist. She was a leading member of Timur Novikov’s ‘New Academicians’ active in Saint Petersburg during the 1990s. This movement rejected modernism and the avant-garde and turned instead to classical antiquity, Russia’s imperial and totalitarian past, Hollywood movies, western advertising, homo-erotica and kitsch for ideals of physical beauty. Tobreluts was the New Academy’s ‘professor of new technologies’ and pioneered the use of digital media on the Russian art scene. The art critic Bruce Sterling called her ‘Helen of Troy equipped with a video camera and a computer.’ In her Models series, eerily lifelike portraits of the gods and heroes of antiquity, derived from classical sculpture, are digitally dressed in contemporary designer labels.


Object details

Category
Object type
Titles
  • Apollon (assigned by artist)
  • Models (series title)
Materials and techniques
Digital print
Brief description
Digital print by Olga Tobreluts, 'Apollon' from the series 'Models. Russia, 1995. Printed 2012.

Physical description
Rectangular (portrait format) colour print: photographically derived image of classical sculpture digitally altered to make it polychrome and lifelike, lettered APOLLON within the image.
Dimensions
  • Height: 130cm
  • Width: 90cm
Content description
Photographically derived image of classical sculpture digitally altered to make it polychrome and lifelike, lettered APOLLON within the image.
Production typeLimited edition
Credit line
Given by Anya Stonelake
Subjects depicted
Summary
Olga Tobreluts (born 1970, Russia) trained as an architect but is internationally prominent as a painter and multi-media artist. She was a leading member of Timur Novikov’s ‘New Academicians’ active in Saint Petersburg during the 1990s. This movement rejected modernism and the avant-garde and turned instead to classical antiquity, Russia’s imperial and totalitarian past, Hollywood movies, western advertising, homo-erotica and kitsch for ideals of physical beauty. Tobreluts was the New Academy’s ‘professor of new technologies’ and pioneered the use of digital media on the Russian art scene. The art critic Bruce Sterling called her ‘Helen of Troy equipped with a video camera and a computer.’ In her Models series, eerily lifelike portraits of the gods and heroes of antiquity, derived from classical sculpture, are digitally dressed in contemporary designer labels.
Collection
Accession number
E.209-2018

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Record createdNovember 16, 2017
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