Pulling a dead horse - Colourful with a wink by BFQ = CTRL+ALT+ART

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Type: Textile fabric (interchangeable fabric) in an aluminium or wooden frame
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Pulling a dead horse - Colourful with a wink by BFQ = CTRL+ALT+ART

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About ‘Pulling a dead horse - Colourful with a wink’ by BFQ = CTRL+ALT+ART

This work plays with the well-known expression "pulling on a dead horse" - the moment when you know something is pointless, but you keep going anyway. Instead of a literal horse, you chose humour and absurdism: a bundle of frikandells replaces the animal, referring to the persistent urban legend that these snacks are supposedly made of horse meat. Thus, the heavy theme is given a light-hearted, colourful twist.

The hand pulling on the rope is about to snap. The brightly coloured paint explosions - red, yellow, purple, blue - suggest energy, frustration and effort shooting in all directions. Against the jet-black background, the colours almost seem to burn, as if pulling this "dead horse" is a struggle into nothingness, but full of feeling.

The work is at once funny, cynical and painfully relatable. It shows the absurdity of persevering when you know it will produce no more movement. Yet it also exudes something cheerful: precisely because of the use of colour and humour, the heavy theme becomes bearable and even strikingly beautiful.

A symbolic nod to perseverance, stubbornness and the human tendency to keep pulling sometimes - even when we know best that it is better to let go.

Original created by BFQ = CTRL+ALT+ART.

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