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Installation by Christian Tomaszewski, On Chapels, Caves and Erotic Misery (500 cardboard sheets 4' x 8', carpet, MDF, etched black mirrors, architectural models, fluorescent light; dimensions variable, 2005/2007. Sculpture Center, New York). The image illustrates an early body of work in C.T. Jasper's career when he gained attention for installation and film recontextualizations and reworkings of existing cinematic forms and motifs. The image represents a series of installations made of cardboard in which he recreated fragments of spaces (both scale-modelled and life-sized), well-known props and views from the 1986 David Lynch film, Blue Velvet. The series' title referenced Kurt Schwitters's kaleidoscopic, layered Merzbau works, which influenced the aesthetics of some of the tableaux and overall presentation. This body of work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in art and daily press publications.

Artist C.T. Jasper. Copyright held by the artist.

C.T. Jasper

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The image has contextual significance serving an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key early body of work by C.T. Jasper: his multi-media installation and film projects that altered or recreated fragments of existing iconic films in order to scrutinize visual and aural cinematic language, through which he first gained recognition under his birth name, Christian Tomaszewski. These works examined the influence of cinema, media, science fiction and architecture through recontextualizations or reworkings of existing forms and motifs and were described as sociopolitical interventions viewed through a skeptical but romantic lens. Because the article is about an artist and his art, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this key body of work, which brought Jasper initial recognition through exhibitions in major international venues, coverage by art critics and publications, and institutional commissions. Jasper's work of this type and this series, as well as this specific work, are discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by C.T. Jasper, and the work no longer is viewable as shown, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.