
Portrait (History)
2010
Kon Trubkovich's *Portrait (History)* is a haunting oil on linen work that captures the distorted, glitchy aesthetic characteristic of the artist's practice, evoking the degraded quality of VHS tape recordings. The painted surface renders its subject in blurred, fragmented passages that suggest both memory and erasure, collapsing the boundary between documentation and decay. The work meditates on the unreliability of recorded history, transforming the intimacy of portraiture into something spectral and elusive.
- Medium
- oil on linen
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
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April 11, 2019
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