Life+Times Presents: Dan Colen, A Retrospective

03.26.2012

ART & DESIGN

Allegory of Faith”

“The image is a manipulated frame of animation from the original Walt Disney’s Cinderella. I removed Cinderella and her Fairy Godmother from the picture, leaving behind this unmanned magical aura. After spending some time with this painting, Larry Gagosian said to me, ‘It’s like a tomb.’ I’ve come to understand the painting through that interpretation. It’s definitely the one painting that literally almost killed me trying to finish.”

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