SLAVOJ ZIZEK

SLAVOJ ZIZEK

oil on Belgian Linen
cm 30x40
12 - 5 - 2011



"In his lessons on aesthetics, Hegel wrote that a good portrait resembles the person it portrays more than this person resembles itself - it distills the inner truth of a person covered up by his or her accidental features. This, exactly, is what I felt when I first saw Luca del Baldo's oil portrait of myself: all the inner despairs and doubts lurking in me are there open to see. It is not a flattering portrait, but it is "me" much more than my photos. It is a "me" that I often do not like, but nonetheless a "me' that I am."
SLAVOJ ZIZEK, 2011
(copyright by Slavoj Zizek. All rights reserved)