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Lumi: I recently saw this work in a museum show, where it was included in a room of work about art heroes: Warhol, Beuys, Smithson. To be honest, I have no idea what the image on the canvas is, but I'd like to think it's a portrait made with disappearing ink, in the way you would deliver secret messages to your grade school friends using milk on paper. You can't read this work in the same way (remember? you hold it under a lamp), but its clandestine image carries the same implications: it can be an homage to whatever hero you'd like, a ghost of mythic art movements past.
Loris Greaud "Vanishing References Portrait Series," 2007, ink on canvas, edition of 3, 47.94 cm x 87 cm

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