Troy
Brauntuch
Troy
Brauntuch
Brauntuch
In 1977, shortly after his graduation, Troy Brauntuch is invited by the critic Douglas Crimp to take part in Pictures. The title of this group show inspired the name of the Picture Generation, a group of visual artists that explored the effects of mass media images by recycling photographs from the audiovisual and printed media as well as from films.
Brauntuch's subjects (police cars, prisoners, technical objects...) are painted with dark pigments on cotton. The large format canvasses are often displayed as polyptychs. The images he creates emulate the genres of classical painting, such as still lifes, portraits and genre scenes, and feature contemporary society's idols and trivialities.
Troy Brauntuch's work was first shown by the Pinault Collection in the exhibition The Illusion of Light at Palazzo Grassi, in 2014.
Brauntuch's subjects (police cars, prisoners, technical objects...) are painted with dark pigments on cotton. The large format canvasses are often displayed as polyptychs. The images he creates emulate the genres of classical painting, such as still lifes, portraits and genre scenes, and feature contemporary society's idols and trivialities.
Troy Brauntuch's work was first shown by the Pinault Collection in the exhibition The Illusion of Light at Palazzo Grassi, in 2014.
