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St_ate

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Description

As part of the *re_petimento* collection, the piece *st_ate* unfolds as a contemporary, conceptual reinterpretation of the famous portrait of Alexander Kerensky painted by Ilya Repin in 1917. Repin had captured the leader of the February Revolution in a posture of precarious balance—right in the heart of Nicholas II’s library at the Winter Palace—revealing the psychological tension and instability of a statesman caught in the tumult of history. With *st_ate*, Treeskulltown moves away from historical figuration to pursue "form before form," a founding principle of Subrealism. Here, the original portrait is deconstructed and treated as a digital palimpsest in which the painterly substance is dissolved, stretched, and rearranged. The work explores the polysemy of the word "State": the sovereign political apparatus in a state of disintegration (embodied by the historical figure of Kerensky) echoes the physical and psychic states of matter and mind. Through an aesthetic of pure, vibrant abstraction, the piece eschews any morbid literalism in favor of a return to the roots of perception. Textures intertwine in a movement of digital *pentimento* (or *repentir*—an artist's revision or "repentance"), transforming the pictorial transition into a space for profound meditation on the permanence and impermanence of the structures that constitute our world.

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treeskulltown

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art

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digitalart