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MARTA DIMITRESCU

Lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden
https://artoteque.com

Marta Dimitrescu is a Swedish visual artist who specializes in newspapers, flyers and other sources of mass media, arranged
collage, computer graphic, painting and printmaking. She is also in a chaotic and overlapping manner. The images include
the founder, CEO and proprietor of artoteque.com, an online products, brands, logos, slogans, celebrities, models, animals
platform for contemporary art. One of her most remarkable and landscapes. The collages are colorful, vibrant and eye-
works is the “Consumption And Consumerism Series”, a series catching, but also disturbing, ironic and critical.
of collages on canvas that explore the themes of consumption, Dimitrescu’s collages are influenced by the pop art movement,
consumerism and advertising in the modern society. which emerged in the 1950s and 1960s as a reaction to the
The series consists of collages, each measuring 70x100 cm, mass culture and consumer society. Pop artists used images
that depict various scenes of consumption and consumerism. from popular culture, such as comic books, advertisements,
The collages are made of cut-out images from magazines, movies and celebrities, to create artworks that challenged

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