Vitamin is a first retrospective, for an artist who is not yet 40 years old. Presented at the Aargauer Kunsthaus, the exhibition Vitamin makes it possible to return to certain older works, such as the series of Despots with Photoshop (2016) which approaches History through a comic and brutal bias. The photos, altered with the artist Romain Berger using image processing software, reveal the faces of well-known dictators distorted by a thirst for power and perfidy.
So all you need is a haircut, a mustache, a leopard hat, small eyes close together to recognize an official portrait that has been roughed up by image processing. We think of Vladimir Putin whose unsightly bulges have been…
