![Art work titled Pentimento 28, created by visual artist Andrew Cornell Robinson. The image shows a ceramic oval form that is slightly inflated like a full belly, and the white surface is covered in prints and drawings in a pale blue. Next to this is another halftone print in black on white paper which is mounted on tin, and crumpled so that the portrait depicted is abstracted, or obscured.](https://www.andrewcornellrobinson.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/acrAssemblagePentimento28a-2048x1365.jpg)
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![Art work titled Pentimento 27, created by visual artist Andrew Cornell Robinson. The image shows a ceramic oval form that is slightly inflated like a full belly, and the white surface is covered in prints and drawings in a pale blue, red and black. Next to this is another halftone print in black on white paper which is mounted on tin, and crumpled so that the portrait depicted is abstracted, or obscured.](https://www.andrewcornellrobinson.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/acrAssemblagePentimento27a-2048x1355.jpg)
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![This work titled Pentimento 11 (Wrestling with Pasquino), shows a ceramic head, upright, facing forward with a sheet of half tone black and white printed paper mounted on tin wrapped over the face. This head sits atop a wooden box that serves as a wall mounted plinth.](https://www.andrewcornellrobinson.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/acrAssemblagePentimento11a-2048x1365.jpg)
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![This work titled Pentimento 21 (Patroclus Sleeping), shows a ceramic head, facing up with a sheet of half tone printed paper mounted on tin draped over the face, like a shroud. This head sits atop a wooden box that serves as a wall mounted plinth.](https://www.andrewcornellrobinson.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/acrAssemblagePentimento21a-2048x1365.jpg)
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![This image shows the work titled Pentimento 16 ( Jean Diot ). The work includes a black and white half tone print of a shirtless man with arms akimbo within a portrait oriented rectangular substrate. Infront of this is a vertical and slightly leaning tower of red glazed ceramic with gradual flanges the form tapers from large to small top to bottom. This form sits on top of a red painted box which serves as a wall mounted plinth.](https://www.andrewcornellrobinson.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/acrAssemblagePentimento16a-2048x1365.jpg)
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I was walking through the streets of Paris one rainy afternoon, when I came across a plaque commemorating the spot where the last homosexual couple were tortured, burned alive and their ashes scattered to the wind. This solitary moment became the impetus for a series of drawings, and prints, that led to the creation of a pair of sculptural altarpieces paying tribute to the charcutier Jean Diot and his lover the cobbler Bruno Lenoir. This work is paired with Pentimento 15 (Bruno Lenoir).
![This image shows the work titled Pentimento 15 ( Bruno Lenoir ). The work includes a black and white half tone print of a man removing his shirt with arms over his head within a portrait oriented rectangular substrate. In front of this is a vertical and slightly leaning tower of red glazed ceramic with gradual flanges the form tapers from large to small top to bottom. This form sits on top of a red painted box which serves as a wall mounted plinth. This print is adapted from a snap shot by the gay Swiss photographer Karlheinz Weinberger](https://www.andrewcornellrobinson.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/acrAssemblagePentimento15a-2048x1365.jpg)
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This work is paired with Pentimento 16 (Jean Diot). I work intuitively to create forms that cobble together stories that are often overlooked or purposefully forgotten. In the case of both Pentimento 15 and 16, there are two different silkscreen prints of sensual male bodies. An artist’s model, whose face is obscured by a rigid structure that is both a phallus, and an obstacle.
I was thinking about the tradition of wedding portraits made to commemorate couples across cultures and throughout history. This pair of portrait altars, serves to commemorate a pair of lovers. That sort of celebration seemed more compelling to me, than a lonely plaque marking the site of their murder by their neighbors in 18th century Paris.
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Reflecting upon my foster brother who I lost touch with. I went to the site of our early youth (Camden, New Jersey), and retrieved a fragment of the crumbling street that I then gilded, and placed like a relic within an oak altar form, a print of the only image I have of the two of us as children, a ceramic form, cast, glazed cracked and repaired with gold and lacquer in the Japanese tradition of kintsugi; when a state of brokenness is repaired with precious metals, our flaws cherished and celebrated.
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