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Tom Loveday
The Golden Origin of the World
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Tom Loveday, The Golden Origin of the World, acrylic on birch panel, 30 x 30 cm, 2025
L'Origine du Monde by Gustav Corbet ambiguously crosses various lines between art and pornography. It is a precise rendering of a women's pubic parts and would no doubt be cancelled if it were made by a more recent and less well known artist and exhibited in Sydney. In order to test the artworld's reception of of such images, I have made an abstraction to ironically reduce its pornographic quality. But oddly enough and here is the irony, such a reduction seems to both reduce its representational quality at the same time as making the image even more pornographic. Gold is used to emphasise the surface value of the work.
Tom Loveday lives and works in Sydney. His practice includes painting, video, performance, installation and curatorial projects. Tom’s art practice is influenced post-war European emigré artists as well as global contemporary art. His main focus in painting is colour and geometry with works ranging from op-art influence to hard-edged geometric abstraction. Detailed images and information about Tom’s work can be found at https://www.tomloveday.net/
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