Venus 2.0

"Venus 2.0" Linocut by Carlos Barberena

"Venus 2.0" (after Botticelli)

Linocut by Carlos Barberena. 2009

In this print I appropriate the iconography and composition of the Botticelli’s painting “The Birth of Venus”, to which I made some adaptations with images that refer to contemporary issues such as environmental pollution, exploitation of natural resources, abuse of power as well the high cost of the wars prompted by our “love” of oil in the “birth” of the twenty-first century.

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