Smiley has no nose
2015
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 152.5 × 152.3 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Los Angeles, California, United States
- Inscription
- inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.r.: (…illeg.) 2015
- Accession Number
- 2017.200
- Department
- Contemporary Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased NGV Foundation with the assistance of Anthony Adair and Karen McLeod Adair, 2017
© Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Rich in narrative and irony, Tala Madani’s work depicts darkly comic and often theatrical stories featuring bald, middle- aged men as the main protagonists. In each of these three paintings, any supposed authority of the men is undermined in a critique of power relations, including that of male privilege. Madani upsets art-historical conventions, openly embracing caricature, gags and disarming visual simplicity. Her approach demonstrates a contemporary sense of sequencing, movement and speed influenced by cartoons, cinema, videos and television.
- Subjects (general)
- Human Figures Relationships and Interactions
- Subjects (specific)
- feminism gesture men (male humans) simplicity (artistic concept) undress
- Movements
- Contemporary (style of art)
