JFK. 77 x 51 inches. 195 x 130 cm. 2009. Charcoal and Graphite on Canvas

Joseph Stalin. 70 x 62 inches. 178 x 157 cm. 2009. Charcoal and Graphite on Canvas

Marilyn Monroe. 77 x 51 inches. 195 x 130 cm. 2009. Charcoal and Graphite on Canvas

Sophie (before). 39 x 31 inches. 100 x 80 cm. 2008. Charcoal and Acrylic on Canvas

Sophie (after). 39 x 31 inches. 100 x 80 cm. 2008. Charcoal and Acrylic on Canvas

PABLO GONZÁLEZ-TREJO is a contemporary artist born in Cuba living and working in between Miami and Paris.

He currently develops his Defacing Art Project. Its idea is to change the past to have another future, which will become our present. For his project, he uses pictures of dictators and presidents or also friends of him who are invited to confront their portraits and erase them with white paint ( last year for the exhibition Portraits d’Amis at Gallery Jeune Création in Paris)

If what we are is based on the experiences we have lived, and the memories of these experiences mutate with time, then we are no more than just a metaphor of ourselves.- by PABLO GONZÁLEZ-TREJO

La bonne nouvelle? you can attend a Defacing performance on November 4th at 7:30 pm at LE104CENTQUATRE in Paris and the exhibition runs to the 8th November, 2009…SHARE + ENJOY!