Lithuanian artist Tadao Cern – who has previously featured on the OPUMO Magazine for his magical ‘Black Balloons’– has returned with a new series of delicate, experimental paintings that are unique because they have nothing do to with paint at all.

 

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Inspired by various fabric combinations, ‘Hanging Paintings’ consists of fabrics that are arranged, draped and wrapped around a simple metal rack, which serves as a canvas.

Cern states that the project came to him as a vision, inspired most probably a memory of a clothing combination or a childhood memory of his mother’s coat hanging in a closet. He also aimed to examine the resulting human love for dressing up and to define this fascination in an unconventional art form.

 

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“Every single piece that I did for this series felt like a revelation to me and I keep doing them over and over again,” says Cern. “What I love about them the most is they are absolutely good-for-nothing objects and nobody ever wore them and nobody ever will.”

Images courtesy of Tadao Cern.

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