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Jose Leonidas Bustos
Jose Leonidas Bustos served as a magistrate of Colombia's Supreme Court of Justice. He is one of the seven judges who authorized the 2012 arrest of the artist's father.
His portrait, a mosaic of thousands of Colombian jam labels (40 × 120 tiles), was created for Marmelade: Supreme Court. The machine systematically destroys the portrait over the course of each exhibition, so it was produced anew for every presentation: at Le Lieu (Québec City, 2018), at BIECTR (Trois-Rivières, 2019) and at L'Écart (Rouyn-Noranda, 2021). Three productions, three destructions.
Mosaic of more than 4,000 printed Colombian jam labels, pinned by hand on transparent acrylic (4 panels, 3 mm), approx. 75 × 150 cm (30 × 60 in).
Originals and editions for sale
Three originals exist, one per production, each bearing the marks of its own destruction. After each exhibition, the destroyed portrait is reassembled for framing.
Available for sale (inquiries: sales (at) almario (dot) ca):
- 2018 original, destroyed at Le Lieu, Québec City
- 2019 original, destroyed at BIECTR, Trois-Rivières
- 2021 original, destroyed at L'Écart, Rouyn-Noranda
Signed and numbered reproductions of each original are also available, in limited editions of 50.
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