Tlepolemus Saves Charite from Captivity
2016
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
2016
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Tlepolemus Saves Charite from Captivity is a 2016 by Olga Tobreluts, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows a scene from a story where one person saves another from being held against their will. Olga Tobreluts made it in 2016 using printmaking techniques. Tobreluts trained as an architect before becoming a painter. She was part of a group in Saint Petersburg that looked back to old styles and ideas. Check out the artist Tobreluts, Olga.
The work is a vertical monochrome photograph depicting three costumed performers posed against a painted stage backdrop. The scene references an episode from Apuleius’s Metamorphoses, with the figures arranged to evoke a staged re-enactment. The image belongs to a series begun in the mid-1990s by the artist, who digitally composited photographs of fellow members of the New Academy into elaborate architectural fantasies.
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Olga Tobreluts makes prints that mash up ancient myths with bold, colorful styles from Russia’s late Soviet and post-Soviet years.
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