Roger Vadim's Nightmare - Brigitte Bardot Blocked Belton Spraycan

100 x 100 cm x 4cm

Stencil spray paint on canvas

2023

Unique colourway

I found an old can of Belton Spraypaint and i tried to use it and a sparrows tear of paint came out so I changed the cap, and a tiny bit more came out. Everytime I used a new cap the same thing happened and it became a 30 minute struggle to get the can to work. I ended up with about 15 blocked caps and a ‘subtle’ splatter background and a pile of clogged caps.

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 and dripping celebrity portraits. Why are they crying ? “Its an illustration of the heartbreak and sadness we have all experienced in relationships in the past.”