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拍品專文
The work of Filipino artist Ronald Ventura is never an individual story in itself but rather an enchanted synthesis of disparate elements, all the while overlaid with the artist's perfect photorealist technique melded with pop iconography. The present lot, Bunny Girl (Lot 433) is a dynamic work that touches on the issues of humanity, gender, and the many masks that we adorn as we attempt to define ourselves within contemporary society.
The Bunny Girl is a hybrid of the old Hollywood pin-up girl and the wide-eyed head of a cartoon rabbit. Combined with the smaller hyper-masculine half-man, half-dog figure to the right of Bunny Girl, the painting explores the fetishization of the human body. The "ideal" physiques of the male and female figure are made ludic through their combination with animal heads. The anatomical drawings that can be seen in the background of the painting draw a contrast between the surface physicality of bunny girl, and the undifferentiated organic components that make us human. Amidst the painting's various symbols and scribbles, a grinning clown peers out of the background, acting as a final challenge to the dichotomy between the internal and external. Ventura reminds us to think about what lies behind external appearances in our daily search for identity and place, and whether or not we are simply masquerading as stereotypes - hoping to fulfil some kind of ideal, but ultimately looking as discordant as the Bunny Girl.
The Bunny Girl is a hybrid of the old Hollywood pin-up girl and the wide-eyed head of a cartoon rabbit. Combined with the smaller hyper-masculine half-man, half-dog figure to the right of Bunny Girl, the painting explores the fetishization of the human body. The "ideal" physiques of the male and female figure are made ludic through their combination with animal heads. The anatomical drawings that can be seen in the background of the painting draw a contrast between the surface physicality of bunny girl, and the undifferentiated organic components that make us human. Amidst the painting's various symbols and scribbles, a grinning clown peers out of the background, acting as a final challenge to the dichotomy between the internal and external. Ventura reminds us to think about what lies behind external appearances in our daily search for identity and place, and whether or not we are simply masquerading as stereotypes - hoping to fulfil some kind of ideal, but ultimately looking as discordant as the Bunny Girl.