The Sponsored Face

Description

A distorted face grinning too wide, branded with symbols of consumption.

Distorted Fame

This collection exposes the grotesque fragility of online idols through the savage lens of Néo-Expressionism. Faces are shredded, layered, and distorted; their identities stretched between beauty filters and inner voids. The portraits echo the chaos of social media stardom: sharp contrasts, lurid palettes, and violent brushstrokes create an aesthetic both magnetic and repulsive.
Trash aesthetics collide with painterly sophistication, evoking graffiti, torn posters, and raw street energy. The works reference the collective psyche of influencer culture—fame, excess, artificiality—without representing any single figure. Colors scream neon (toxic pinks, acid greens, glitch blues), layered over black, ochre, and crimson expressionist grounds.
The mood oscillates between admiration and disgust: beauty fractured into grotesque spectacle, icons of a hollow digital stage.

Key Features

1. Material: High-definition digital prints on premium plexiglass, with a glossy finish for exceptional depth and clarity. High-quality plexiglass printing ensures vivid colors, sharp details, and striking reflections.
2. Style: Néo-Expressionism with Trash Surrealist undertones
3. Edition: Limited series of 888 pieces per artwork, each piece is numbered and certified to guarantee authenticity.
4. Interactive Technology: Amalea™ integration and ART ID standards allow viewers to access animated elements via smartphone.
5. Exclusive Mounting System: Each artwork is delivered with a premium, easy-to-install hanging system, ensuring a seamless and elegant wall display.

🎥Watch the installation video for a step-by-step guide.

Purpose

 To rip apart the polished mask of digital culture, exposing the fragility and grotesque beauty of global influencer archetypes.

Audience

• Contemporary art collectors
• Digital culture critics
• Galleries and concept spaces
• Designers seeking bold, disruptive imagery

Interior Decorator’s Advice

• Placement →Loud spaces: creative studios, lounges, nightclubs, gallery walls.
• Lighting → Harsh spotlights, cold LEDs, or even colored neons to amplify distortion.
• Complementary Decor →  Brutalist furniture, industrial textures, graffiti accents.
• Arrangement → As a disruptive gallery wall, or large-scale single piece as provocation.

Distorted Fame tears open the facade of digital celebrity. Through Néo-Expressionist violence of line, texture, and color, these works unveil the grotesque poetry of influencer culture: seductive, hollow, and endlessly duplicated. Each portrait is both a mirror and a wound, a trash-aesthetic confession of our times.