Runaway bride Print

This is my version of Vasili Pukirev’s painting An Unequal Marriage almost with a happy ending. I do not like this piece. It depicts hu- miliation, shown in some romantic, sentimental form – a young girl doesn’t want to marry an old man, but she cries and holds a candle; everyone around her understands, but they don’t do anything about it. I decided to create a remake because I love the cinematic scenes where the bride runs away from the wedding. Here the role of the bride is once again played by Godzilla. A long time ago, my friends and I imagined what it would be like if the new Godzilla movie was directed by Emir Kusturica from the Time of the Gypsies і Underground period. In it, Godzilla would run around the Serbian countryside dressed as a bride, surrounded by gypsies with trumpets and drums. Here we see a picture of a very pow- erful being who does not know who she is or exactly what she wants but knows what she is unwilling to do. She is unwilling enough to burn everything on her path into the unknown. She goes away as loud and ugly as vomiting after alcohol poisoning. The foreground shows the landscape of a broken wedding with all its in- herent attributes: there is the church, the witness, the loaf of bread and the family. But something is not right here. Maybe a church on chicken feet sur- rounded by skulls, like the hut in the Baba Yaga fairy tale? This is an allusion to the “spiritual revival” that has some- how bizarrely taken place in our coun- try. The groom also doubts whether the bride fits him. But witnesses and god- parents clearly don’t understand that something is amiss. It is above all a story about our choice of values. Marriage is an agreement that is not and cannot be here.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:10 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:15.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in

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