Primer
2015

Gallery location
Not on display
 

About this work

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.

Artwork Details

Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
45.9 × 61.2 cm
Place/s of Execution
Los Angeles, California, United States
Inscription
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.r.: (…illeg.) / 2015
Accession Number
2017.199
Department
Contemporary Art
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased NGV Foundation with the assistance of David Clouston and Michael Schwarz, 2017
© Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA