The Freedom Of Truth

2019 Oil and Fluorescent paint on mirrored aluminium composite panel 76.5cm x 61cm

A neoclassical sculptor concentrating on aesthetics, Arno Breker was a colleague of Cocteau, Renoir and Picasso. In his native Germany his work was at first dismissed by the Nazis as “degenerative,” only later to become a favourite of the elite. With these powerful patrons, his practice grew to include a team of over 40 studio assistants. 

Ironically while the majority of his public work actually survived the war, as happens to so much art caught in the axis of power change, it was destroyed by the victors. 

In a time of Deep Fake software, this composite extrapolation of several destroyed Breker works merges an imagined past with today’s Post Truth “reality.”