Raul Rajangu
House of Playboy
| Artist: | Raul Rajangu (1968 - ) |
| Title: | House of Playboy |
| Date: | 1996 |
| Technique: Material: |
photo paper |
| Height (cm): | 119.0 |
| Width (cm): | 114.0 |
| Description: | The “House of Playboy" looks like a photo-montage or a computer simulation, however it is actually a documentation of an object made by Raul Rajangu, the size of a doll-house, situated in the artist's hometown Viljandi. In this unreal yet playful environment Rajangu combines symbols from the recent past (the pentagon of eternal fire), significant objects from art history (the urinal of Duchamp), and personal fixed images that are continuously repeated in his work (for example an oven). We can see in this work a postmodern combination of ruins of previous ideologies, “upon which only a House of Playboy can be built, a house that is open to everyone who is paying, where nothing is sacred."* The work however also involves a clever game with the viewer, a labyrinth with several exits, or no exits at all, in which “one detail leads to another, every image creates a feeling that it should have been preceded by another particular image", objects that set up perceptual traps and “create abundant associations of thought and archetypal symbols", throwing “pepper of simulation and salt of ambivalence into the viewers' eyes."** This installation was displayed for the first time in Vaal Gallery in 1996. Anu Allas * Heie Treier, Social Visit to the House of Playboy. - Vikerkaar, 1996, 5-6, p. 63. ** Kiwa, News from the Plateau of Rajangu. - Kunst.ee, 2001, 4, p. 24. |
| Related categories: | Contemporary Art |
| Copyright notice: | Art Museum of Estonia |
| AME collection: | Contemporary Art Collection |
| Collection number: | FV 2 |
| Accretion number: | EKM j 45270 |
| File info: |
Source type: digital photography File type: JPG File size: 1.74MB Resolution: 3573*3460px @ 600dpi |
