Jaime Pitarch

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Self portrait by a deceived paintor / Autorretrato de un pintor engañado 2009

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Using characterisation techniques (make up, unshaving my beard for more than a month, deying my hair, etc.) I change my physiognomy. I study forms of acting that help me to adopt different identities.
In Las Ramblas (Barcelona), a place where a great number of street paintors are gathered, I select the best one I can find. I visit him periodically asking him to make a portrait of each one of the characters in which I have been transformed. The lapse between each portrait is between three weeks and a month, depending if I have to grow my beard.
At no point the paintor noticed he was painting the same person.