Evgen Čopi Gorišek

Evgen Čopi Gorišek's paintings capture life in the digital age. He creates luxurious scenes of people wrapped in designer clothes, and paints people as if they are always posing for a photo. Despite their glamour, their faces tell a different story. They have an uneasy grimace, disconnecting them from their surroundings. By using an airbrush, Čopi Gorišek gives the figures a photorealistic quality. The backgrounds are then filled in with oil sticks, creating smooth, flat colour. Airbrush artists Austin Lee and Madsaki inspired him to take up the medium, while fashion photography strongly influences his staged compositions.

Above all, the paintings poke fun at our obsession with self-improvement. He adopts the visual language of consumer culture, but subverts it in a faux-naif, or false-naive, style. ITaking inspiration from the lifestyle and self-improvement images on social media, Gorišek uses sunbathers and bodybuilders as examples of the modified body. He exposes this drive for perfection as futile, and laughs at all things aspirational.