Carlo Ponti dreams of Sophia Loren

77.5 x 110cm

Spray paint stencil on black metal tray 

2018

Unique piece, signed on back with split baton

Pure Evil explains that a chance email from a Chinese “copy village” gave impetus to his “Nightmare Series.” The village offered, via email, a list of artists it could reproduce, including three Andy Warhol paintings. The idea of Warhol’s entire artistic output distilled right down to three small 64 x64 pixel thumbnails of Jackie Kennedy, Liz Taylor and an Electric Chair became the inspiration for these doomed celebrity portraits.