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![Ken Weaver
Ad Asta Lumina, 2007
Oil pastel on paper
30 x 45 inches
Courtesy of the artist
Backed by blazing red pastel that seems to combine fire and blood, Ken Weaver’s Ad Astra Lumina is from his 2006 drawing series, Royally Fucked. in which theatrical, aristocratic characters revel in excess ornamentation. The moochromatic drawings from this series show chandeliers, which embody the hubris of extreme ornamentation. Chandeliers, fixtures that casts light, are here garish signifiers borrowed from the Baroque and Rococo periods to further Weaver’s comments on indulgence in today's society. “The Queen,” at the center of the image, is a kind of crazed Marie Antoinette-esque figure. both a victim of violence ─ blood trickles in a thin strand from her nose to her bared bosom─ and a threatening figure, who confronts us with disdain and challenge. The cut crystal chandeliers that menacingly flank her are echoed in the entrapping crystal drop choker that circles her throat. Weaver describes her living in a “world that is stained red ─ a contemporary Vanitas [and vanitas-like, as her grim face attests, she faces the passing of earthly things].She is a heavy metal Baroque Queen… a harbinger of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll. The Queen is one with her glittering surroundings, forever locked within the fractured light of her chandeliers─a prisoner and performer within a gilded stage of mirrored luminous spotlights.”
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