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Portrait of Mephisto #1 (2006).

Portrait of Mephisto #5 (2006).

The carefully-constructed and coloured tableaux of Shanghai-based art Maleonn Ma remind me of Joel-Peter Witkin’s grainier and nastier works only without the body parts or dead babies. The repeated use of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam in contemporary culture is a whole subject in itself.

Via Phantasmaphile.

Previously on { feuilleton }
• Behold the (naked) man
• Sculptural collage: Eduardo Paolozzi
• Michelangelo revisited