Rewind: Something Missing? XX I (Cézanne to Renoir)

‘Something missing? XX’ is a work which combines reimagined images of the twenty most expensive paintings sold in history, artworks all created by white men. The title is both a question and answer, asserting that these creations miss the female chromosome.

The frenzied and distorted reality of images includes digital adaptations of ‘Salvator Mundi’ by Leonardo Da Vinci, ‘Interchange’ by Willem de Kooning, ‘The Card Players’ by Paul Cézanne, ‘When will you Marry?’ by Paul Gauguin, ‘Number 17A’ by Jackson Pollock, ‘Wasserschlangen II’ by Gustav Klimt, ‘No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red)’ by Mark Rothko, ‘Pendant portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit’ by Rembrandt, ‘Les Femmes d'Alger ("Version O”)’ by Pablo Picasso, ‘Nu couché’ by Amedeo Modigliani, ‘No. 5, 1948’ by Jackson Pollock, ‘Women III’ by Willem de Kooning, ‘Masterpiece’ by Roy Lichtenstein, ‘Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I’ by Gustav Klimt, ‘Le Rêve’ by Pablo Picasso, ‘Portrait of Dr. Gachet’ by Vincent van Gogh, ‘Nu couché (sur le côté gauche)’ by Amedeo Modigliani, ‘Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II’ by Gustav Klimt, ‘Three Studies of Lucian Freud’ by Francis Bacon, ‘Bal du moulin de la Galette’ by Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Whilst these artists are unquestionably talented and the works are important, the viewer is invited to question and consider other realities, one where all art is championed equally not only by one gender or race.