Life+Times Presents: Dan Colen, A Retrospective

“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.”