Renata Fernandez.com, info@renatafernandez.com. Soldiers Series, sculpture, paintings, drawings and relieves/title> <META NAME="Author" CONTENT="copyright Renata Fernandez & Artbust"> <META NAME="Classification" CONTENT="Fine Art Website"> <META NAME="Description" CONTENT="Venezuelan born fine artist, living and working in London, United Kingdom. Artista Plastico venezolana, vive y trabaja en Londres, Reino Unido. Offizielle Webseite der Latein-Amerikanischen Künstlerin, Renata Fernandez, geboren in Venezuela, mit Studio und Wohnsitz in London, England. "> <META NAME="KeyWords" CONTENT="! Renata Fernandez, corporate art, big formats, fine art, young emerging artist, Latin American art, Venezuela, Venezuelan art, Caracas, London, London art, painting, sculpture, drawing, sport and art, sport art, mixed media, affordable art, ROFZ, Artbust, public art, world cup, Arte corporativo, grandes formatos, arte plastico, bellas artes, artista joven emergente, arte emergente, arte latinoamericano, arte venezolano, Londres, arte de Londres, pintura, escultura, dibujo, deporte y arte, arte deportivo, arte del deporte, tecnica mixta, arte asequible, arte barato, arte publico, copa mundial de futbol, Kunst im Büro, grosse Formate, Malerin, Kunst im Raum, neue Kunst, junge Künstler, Latein Amerikanische Kunst, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Sport Gemälde, Öl auf Leinwand, preiswerte Kunst, Auftragswerke, WM."> <style type="text/css"> body { background-color:#FFFFFF; } </style> <script src="../Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js" type="text/javascript"></script> </head> <body> <div id="header"> <span class="style48">renatafernandez.com </span></div> </div>  <div id="wrapper"> <div id="content"> <div id="menu"> <p> </p> <p class="style1"> <a href="../index.html" target="_self">return to index</a> | <a href="flash/soldiers.html" target="_blank">html version</a></p> <hr /> </div>  <table width="834"> <tr> <td height="21"><script type="text/javascript"> AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0','width','500','height','550','src','flash/soldiers','quality','high','pluginspage','http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash','movie','flash/soldiers' ); //end AC code </script><noscript><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0" width="500" height="550"> <param name="movie" value="flash/soldiers.swf" /> <param name="quality" value="high" /> <embed src="flash/soldiers.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500" height="550"></embed> </object></noscript></td> <td class="style15">This series is part of a ongoing reflection about the media: since war is something that occupies considerable space in newspapers and other media, so I continue to work with images that are constantly feeding my imaginary of war and weaponry. <br /> <br /> 'I Wanna Be...' is about contradictions, between the apparent and the obvious. It’s based on a image of a charging British soldier the first year of the Iraq invasion. I worked such photo endlessly upside-down – formally that’s how it first caught my attention - for a year and I produced a great deal of large-scale works on paper. Yet one day I turned it around, and I saw fear in the soldier's eyes. I didn’t know if he was dead or alive. Here lied in front of me possibly a father and a husband, a son, and brother, a grandson or a boyfriend. As I started thinking about his humanity, it daunted on me all those whose lives pass in front of our eyes in the news, and from whom we’ll never hear again. <br /> <br /> ‘I Wanna Be…’ is sober and quite blunt in its statement. On one hand, we have the mutual affirmation among the crimson of the velvet of the body and backdrop, and the suggested red of the bloody trade of the soldier. On the other hand, we have the implicit absurd of the use of a textile that is soft to the touch, suggesting the domestic, antique, and interiors with low lighting, whisperings or polite soft conversation (as in a church); while the image of the charging soldier remains all too clear, and so its implied capability for destroying and producing unbearable noise. The attractive softness and plush backdrop in velvet hold the formal game of the soldier’s body, in which the organs blend with the gun, forming one tight unit.</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="500" height="21"> </td> <td width="322"> </td> </tr> </table>  </div>  </div>  </body> </html>