{"id":105,"title":"Human Project: Painting n°3 ","dimensions":"60 x 90 cm","date_begin":"1994-01-01","material":"oil on canvas","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":181,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":3,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"\u003cp\u003eThe oil painting by Ragimov shows a group portrait of men, women, and children in Tibet. The artist probably based his painting on a photo from the book \u0026#39;Тибет и Далай-лама\u0026#39; (\u0026#39;Tibet and the Dalai Lama\u0026#39;) by Petr Kuzmich Kozlov, published in St Petersburg in 1920.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","date_end":"1994-01-01","reference":"S0289","stream_count_app":47,"permalink":"human-project-painting-n-3","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/000/139/medium_500/698Ragimov,%20Kerim,%20Human%20Project%20Portrait%20n%C2%B03%20,%201994-2003%20foto%20Jan%20Kempenaers.jpg?1297685247","cached_actor_names":"Kerim Ragimov","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Painting","nl":"Schilderij","fr":""},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/000/139/large/698Ragimov,%20Kerim,%20Human%20Project%20Portrait%20n%C2%B03%20,%201994-2003%20foto%20Jan%20Kempenaers.jpg?1297685247","poster_credits":" © Kerim Ragimov","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe\u003cem\u003e Human Project\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;consists primarily of hand-painted copies made by the artist himself of a large variety of (more or less symbolically laden) group portraits taken from magazines and similarly mundane photographic material; the work\u0026rsquo;s totalizing ambition is to present a visual anthropology of twentieth-century humanity \u0026ndash; an exemplarily humanist undertaking, one might infer. At the same time, however, Ragimov\u0026rsquo;s play with both technique and pictorial conventions strongly alludes to the history of Soviet representations of history, and to the well-known fact that no such representation can ever be innocent again. Adapting his choice of technique and means of execution to the specific traits or \u0026lsquo;ideological\u0026rsquo; content of the medium through which a particular image is depicted, a scene from a Soviet-era magazine, for example, will be rendered in a fitting red glow.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eHet \u003cem\u003eHuman Project\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;bestaat uit virtuoos en aandachtig met de hand geschilderde kopie\u0026euml;n van symbolisch geladen groepsportretten, afkomstig uit tijdschriften en ander mondain fotomateriaal; in haar totaliteit ambieert de reeks een soort visuele antropologie van de mensheid in de twintigste eeuw te zijn \u0026ndash; een exemplarisch humanistische onderneming, zou men kunnen concluderen. Tegelijkertijd alludeert de kunstenaar in deze werken op de technieken waarmee het voormalige Sovjet-regime (uiteraard niet altijd bonafide) hielp met het vormgeven van de werkelijkheid. Hij past zijn technieken en middelen aan de specifieke eigenschappen, of de \u0026lsquo;ideologische\u0026#39; inhoud, van het medium waarin de bewuste beelden worden weergegeven, aan: zo zal een sc\u0026egrave;ne uit een magazine uit de Sovjet-tijd weergegeven worden met een passende rode gloed.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":71,"name":"Kerim Ragimov","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}