Arrière-Garde Blog

The aesthetics of the body occupies a prominent place in today's world. And indeed, today’s celebrity culture, from tabloids to social media and the arts is deeply entrenched in the aesthetics of the body.  Many contemporary artists have been producing work by appropriating the imagery of popular and celebrity culture; one of the main reasons being the desire of generating a criticism of our contemporary society and its obsession with appearance, consumerism, hedonism and the likes.

It is therefore not surprising that the body, its semblance, and the related aesthetics which have been multiplying in endless ways to express the most disparate gender, ethnic, political and social identities, has come to the fore as subjects of contemporary painting.