Stefan Bertalan Untitled, 1987
Pencil and watercolor on paper
62,8 x 48,2 cm (unframed)
85,4 x 70,8 x 4,2 cm (framed)
85,4 x 70,8 x 4,2 cm (framed)
This drawing enacts the transmutation from plant to human-plant hybrid, a recurring motif of Bertalan's work in this period.
In this period Bertalan's psycho-political, manic research—finding himself (as self-portrait) projected into the biological-cosmic-fantastic world around him—determines his iconography. His anatomy progressing into geology and cosmology. Depictions of conflating body, structures, organisms and cosmos hint at his personal history and trauma.
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