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If you get closet o this portrait you will realize that it is not a conventional portrait. This is the work by  Michael Mapes. The Deutch artist portraits here some masterpieces of the XVII century through a multimedia collage that includes a variety of materials – such photographs, sequins, pins for insects, anything to him constitutes a «biographical DNA», in the case of his previous live portraits l including also materials such as hand written notes and hair.

Michael Mapes, Dutch specimen MT1639, 2013, photographic prints, insect pins, pinning foam, gelatin capsules, glass vials, painted canvas, cast resin, pill organizer, plastic specimen bags, cotton thread, cotton, costume jewelry, sequins, fingerprints, beads, paper doilies, cupcake holders.