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Red smartphone
byPéter_Szilágyi
About this artwork
The title of this painting has given me a lot to think about. An ambiguous image. I discovered this detail in a tableau-like photograph taken by my wife at the 2020 Venice Carnival. Amidst the dreamlike “scenery” of one of the world’s most glamorous events, boys dressed in skimpy Gucci and “pseudo-suits” watch virtual reality, oblivious to the mysterious masquerades floating around them. After all, which reality is “real”? Or are they reading the news of a nearby Covid outbreak on a red phone in the middle of the fancy dress parade, which turned the carnival into a nightmare?
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