Artificial Mystification
of a painting1998 - 2000
Tour of emblematic (tourist) places to load of "Myth" the painting of a severed head.
Since 1998 Baraya has been traveling with him a painting of a severed head. In the different places he passed through, Ó took photographs of the painting's encounter with emblematic places of his imaginary. In December 2000, the painting toured places in Mexico City and the Yucatan peninsula where Finally, at the New Year's party, the painting was incinerated.
Is the artificial mythification of a painting possible?
The “Mythification by contact” project emerges as a journey of innocently magical interests around the relationship of the romantic traveler, painting, stories and mythical places.
The Myths are far away. To meet him, he departs on a pilgrimage trip, like the one the ancient Greeks made after the oracle, asking questions.
Angelus,Vatican City, 1997
Pantheon. Rome 1998
Tower of London. London, 1998
Venus,Louvre Museum, Paris,1998
hatschepsut temple,Egypt 1999
Cops of NY; Bike at MET, NY, 1999
Trevi Fountain. Rome, 1998
Les Bourgeois de Calais. Calais, 1998
Three Thanks. London, 1998
Table frequencies photos to Venus,Louvre Museum, Paris,1998
Mormons,Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao,1998
Twin Towers,NY, 1999
Pirámides, 1999
Columnata y pareja
Pirámides, 1999