Vincent Cassel's Nightmare - Monica Bellucci Handfinished

76 x 76 cm x 2cm

Stencil spray paint on canvas with krink bunny tags

2016 / 2018

Unique colourway 

First one of a new series of portraits of artists who have inspired me and made me want to push myself forward.

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. Warhol’s entire artistic output was distilled right down to three small 64 x64 pixel thumbnails of Jackie Kennedy, Liz Taylor and an Electric Chair, and this 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.”