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MARTA DIMITRESCU
Lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden
https://artoteque.com

Marta Dimitrescu is a Swedish visual artist who specializes in consumption and consumerism. The collages are made of cut-out
collage, computer graphic, painting and printmaking. She is also images from magazines, newspapers, flyers and other sources
the founder, CEO and proprietor of artoteque.com, an online of mass media, arranged in a chaotic and overlapping manner.
platform for contemporary art. One of her most remarkable works The images include products, brands, logos, slogans, celebrities,
is the “Consumption And Consumerism Series”, a series of collages models, animals and landscapes. The collages are colorful, vibrant
on canvas that explore the themes of consumption, consumerism and eye-catching, but also disturbing, ironic and critical.
and advertising in the modern society. Dimitrescu’s collages are influenced by the pop art movement, which
The series consists of collages, that depict various scenes of emerged in the 1950s and 1960s as a reaction to the mass culture

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