Artworks

Yiannis Selimiotis

Descriptive information

Type of artwork: Painting
Material(s) & Technique(s): Acrylic on glass and wooden frame
Dimensions: 64cm x 50cm
Year: 2021
Location: Prespa Lake, North Macedonia

Technical information

Digitisation of artwork: Panagiotis Diapoulis
Equipment used: Cameras: Canon 5D Mark IV, Canon 6D | Camera Type: DSLR | Lenses: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II USM, Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM, Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM
Image processing software: Adobe Photoshop 22.4 (Windows)

License

Reuse this file under the terms of the license Creative Commons Attribution – ShareAlike (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How to cite this image

“The Second Death of the Painter Keraca Visulčeva”. 2021. Artist: Yiannis Selimiotis. Source: ECHO II website. License: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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About this artwork

There is an old historic neoclassical palace in Resen, the Ahmed Niyazi Bey Saray. Inside this old palace, a princess is sleeping, but no one seems to remember anymore. The visions and dreams of our time concern more practical aspects of life. Long forgotten, the princess and the French-style mansion were consigned to oblivion. This artwork is a tribute to the painter Keraca Visulčeva, who made me see the second death of myself, the rotting of my paintings, the inevitable end. A portrait of her, painted from combining photos and self-portraits that she painted. To this, I added some flowers from the ones that still decorate an old photograph of her with her father. A small rectangle space for drawing the old photograph. Behind the flowers, the old Saray, that the Ottoman Bey Ahmed Niyazi had dreamed. A story curved on the glass of an old window frame, a window that the people threw in the garbage to be replaced with a newer, uglier, but more practical one.

Yiannis Selimiotis