BUSH DOCTRINE - SCARECROW OF DEATH

Doutrina Bush - Espantalho da Morte

Among many others interesting pieces of artistic works, The plastic artist Walter Miranda presents a panel with works of art that provoke deep reflections about the Bush’s current political world.

In the panel, there are works criticizing the current North American politics (called doctrine Bush) and the terrorist actions. At the same time, the artist exposes works honoring New York City, victim of the attacks of September 11, 2001.

The works join the traditional technique of the oil painting (in contemporary style) with the new technological medias (because part of the works was accomplished through graphic computation).

A work stands out of the group: BUSH DOCTRINE - SCARECROW OF DEATH. It consists of a scarecrow with the same high and breadth wise of an adult man with the world map at his feet. The work is painted with synthetic enamel and oil painting, with the insertion of sawed computer plate, disassembled HDs, brooches, bullets, spurs, images worked with graphic computation, etc.

It represents a critic to the political actions of the president Bush in the world. It is such a picture as an installation, because it extends from the wall to the ground, inducing the spectator to look it from several points of view and to interact with the art object. The different images and parts that compose the work are linked to each other but at the same time they are independent. They provoke a thoughtful glance of the details and a dynamic glance due the reasoning correlation between the parts and the whole. Certainly it is an impressive work that leads to intelligent reflection on the current world political map.

It is an outstanding exhibition of strong visual impact and conceptual aims but with subtleness in the implied sense.

São Paulo, May 5, 2003.

Flávia Venturoli Miranda