Claudia Persechino-Morin: THE GERMAN BOOK ABOUT THE BACKSTREET BOYS 36" x 30", Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 2020 Artist Bio Claudia Persechino-Morin was born in 1996 in Montreal. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts with a minor in German at Concordia University in 2020. She now lives and works in Montreal. Artwork Description This work is a representation of a 1996 German book on the Backstreet boys I received while I was studying in Germany. Spending a year abroad influenced my work as I was experiencing great feelings of nostalgia. Thinking about the music I heard and listened to as a child, I got interested in the "boy band" genre, its music, aesthetic and fandom. Not only does the painting evoke popular nostalgia for the early 2000's music, but also evokes it at a personal level and a different time frame because it reminds me of my recent time in Germany. The depiction of the book itself frames the object and its important role as conveyor of memories and creates a level of distancing which recalls nostalgia. What is painted are not the Backstreet Boys, but a photograph of them on a book cover. The uneven lettering and slightly inaccurate portraiture of the band members refers to childlike, amateur skills, which gives the faces an eerie look. It creates simultaneously pleasure and discomfort: we are drawn to the work, yet we want to distance ourselves from it.
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