RUBIK SHOT RED MARILYN

Medium: Diasec-mounted giclèe print on aluminium composite panel, signed and numbered on verso

HENI Editions Catalogue Number: NVDR1-4

Edition: #754/774

Year: 2023

Size: 100.0cm x 100.0cm

Good To Know: Unframed, stored in humidity controlled art storage facility, condition report available upon request.

Series: Rubikcubism (Rubik Master Pieces)

Arty-Fact: Rubik Shot Red Marilyn derives from Invader’s series ‘Rubik Master Pieces’, in which he manipulates Rubik's Cubes to reproduce historical works of art as three-dimensional sculptures. Due to the restricted palette of the cubes (limited to six colours), the images are transformed into abstract, pointillist mosaics whose full forms can only be discerned from afar or, as Invader himself suggests, through a smartphone camera.

Invader reproduced some of Andy Warhol’s iconic portraits of Marilyn Monroe from 1967. In this image, Marylin’s face, composed of white and orange squares, emerges over a pixelated field of red and orange. Despite the heavily simplified design, Marilyn’s seductive gaze and smiling lips are immediately recognisable.

If Warhol’s original artwork is a comment on American society, its consumerism and its obsession with fame, Invader’s version represents a homage to both a global celebrity and a revolutionary artist who disrupted the art world.

Like Warhol, Invader is more concerned with artistic experimentation rather than critiquing society. Through this series Invader is playing with the history of art and making the viewer discover or rediscover iconic artworks. Moreover, the very term Rubikcubist is of course a reference to the cubist movement founded by Braque and Picasso at the beginning of the 20th century.

Source: HENI Editions