V. Maldonado
La Vetruvia, 2019
Acrylic on Canvas
96 x 75 1/2 in
243.8 x 191.8 cm
243.8 x 191.8 cm
MAL292
Copyright The Artist
$ 12,000.00
The title is V.'s play on Leonardo DaVinci's Vitruvian Man. V reclaims the concept of the ideal, the so-called perfectly proportioned, ideal human based on cis-male bodies, centering instead on a transgender figure as a new ideal for our world.
Exhibited in Excerpts from a Book I'll Never Write, 2019, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon.