Series: “Dictators with their Philosophers 3/3” 

Oil on Canvas 90x120 cm (2021) 

The work emerges with the consideration of the photo of Mussolini and Franco in front of a wall with barred window dated 1941 in Bordighera, the conceptual effects of the real encounter of the two dictators are depicted in the painting with Picasso, Marinetti, Michelangelo's broken David statue and the silhouette of George Orwell in the Spanish civil war interpreted from their real photographs. Picasso starting “Guernica” behind the barred window as a result of two proud dictators in military uniforms. While the author of the fascist manifesto Marinetti is fiercely showing the newspaper le Figaro where the Futurist Manifesto was published. The figure is interpreted from Marinetti's photograph. We see Orwell hoisting the anarchist flag to the current situation in the background. The work exposing the statue of David, which was taken from the museum to the meadow and whose arm was broken by “Futurist Movement” who aiming to destroy everything old.  This work constructs and exposes the relationship between futuristic subversion and fascism. #artonistanbul  #mussolini #