Sergey Brin & Larry Page 1 (404)
Based on a 2004 press photograph of Google’s founders at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the portrait suggests a critical erosion of digital power under the title 404.
The saturated color and the slight divergence in the focus of the faces introduce an instability that unsettles the public image and its apparent transparency.
Integrated into “The Paintings Section From Davis Museum Barcelona”, it extends the narrative of the self-constituted museum into the dematerialized sphere of networked culture.
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This portrait derives from a 2004 press photograph in which Google’s founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, smile ahead of a media appearance at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Titled “404,” it invokes the HTTP error code for a missing page, subjecting corporate presence to a logic of disappearance and the broken link that nonetheless underwrites networked knowledge.
Executed in oil on canvas, the square format alludes to the museum’s cubic geometry, while the palette of the “Full Color Period” (initiated in 2019) displaces the monochrome austerity—first grey, then blue—of earlier phases.
Situated within “The Paintings Section from Davis Museum Barcelona,” the painting extends the genealogy of artist-founded museums—Duchamp’s Boîte-en-valise, Filliou’s Galerie légitime, Broodthaers’s Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles—by probing the dematerialization of the museum in the contemporary digital sphere.
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| Weight | 4 kg |
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| Dimensions | 3 × 60 × 60 cm |
