tempera on wood, 25 x 19 cm, 19x25, signed and dated on the back, Mădălina Matei, 2015

Mădălina Matei began her studies for a Bachelor Degree in Graphic Arts at the National University of Arts of Bucharest in 2013. “The Cult of Personality” is a reflection on a political regime which she didn't experience, a period known exclusively through the eyes and the words of others. This subjective response to communism is ironic and it combines two antithetical elements: the image of the omnipresent dictator, creator of the socialist world, and the Byzantine faith with its immaterial artistic representation. Thus, we have an “icon of the ruler” which could easily replace the cheap images presented at the time in institutions, schools and textbooks.

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