Artwork title : Swipe up

A young red-haired woman is sitting on a case surrounded by empty cans, trash toys and a screaming monkey.

Dressed in an orange safety vest and only one boot, she holds an aluminum espresso maker and a mobile phone in her hands.

Behind her, a manned rocket rises from a dusky plain into the cloud-shrouded sky.

The little monkey at the lower left edge of the picture is borrowed from Peter Paul Rubens' painting “Cimon and Efigenia” and, painted in the manner of the old masters, combines two very opposite aspects of the composition.

The classic painting style symbolizes the dominantly western concept of art and the animal-animal style symbolizes the devaluation of primitive cultures in art.

The redhead transformed from Botticelli's “Birth of Venus” looks lost in thought into the upper right corner of the painting.

On the display of her mobile phone you can see a glowing planet, similar to a profile picture on a dating app.

This dystopian allegory symbolically links the current question of social attitudes in dealing with the devalued art of colonized peoples and the responsibility of the West towards the entire cultural and material resources of our planet.