The reflection on painting and the possibility of abandoning the canvas' material reality in favor of a virtual or hybrid dimension has been heavily conditioned by the diffusion of post-production programs such as Photoshop. This topic represents the center of the works by Constant Dullaart (Leiderdorp, the Netherlands, 1979) in the lenticular print series titled Jennifer in Paradise. He recovers history's first photoshopped picture, formerly widespread and nowadays challenging to find in its original version, as Adobe creators used the photo in the brand new software tutorial in 1988. He offers a series of distorted, out-of-focus, textured versions of the original picture, revealing the possibilities to shape a fictional pictorial reality.
Costant Dullaart