Toronto-based Oli Goldsmith has embarked on a project both daunting and
bizarre, but surely to the delight of pop culture afficionados: he's
creating a thousand portraits of...Borat?
The 999 Borats Project is something I have from the start referred to as an “unashamedly cheesy experiment in pop-art idiocy,” meant in a light-hearted way. It has become something more than that in many ways, but at its core it still can be described as such. The idea was to create 999 original “portraits”—using a mixture of art-making techniques and approaches (not putting any restrictions on myself there) but done generally pretty quickly, and all with a modest size of between about 8"x10" and 12"x18". And to use the internet, and specifically Flickr at first, as a means of having an audience follow the progression of the work. The ridiculously ambitious aim was to create 999 “original” artworks at a smallish scale with the the one restriction that they all be in some shape or form a portrait of Borat. Read more
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