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A distorted digital portrait of a person, their features blurred by horizontal glitch lines and colour shifts. The figure is set against a bright blue background of fine, parallel lines.

Kon Trubkovich reinvents glitched videos with graphite and oil paints

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Date
10 April 2012

If, like me, you’ve ever uncontrollably tried to copy and paste something in real life, or move a real apple core to the trash folder on the desktop, then take a look at these paintings by Kon Trubkovich and see if your mind starts automatically figuring out the image behind the glitch. Mildy confusing but intensely satisfying, Kon’s portraits that ‘lack identity’ become all the more impressive when you realise they are created with oil paints and graphite – killer!

A distorted digital portrait of a person wearing a red top. The image is heavily glitched with horizontal lines and shifted pixels, creating a blurred, streaking effect across the figure.
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Kon Trubkovich: I am forgetting who I am

An abstract print featuring a dense, textured pattern of grey and white dots. The marks form undulating, horizontal bands that resemble a blurred landscape or static.
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Kon Trubkovich: No Signal 9

A distorted figure is seen from behind, rendered as a dark silhouette against a background of horizontal stripes. The stripes alternate in red, green, blue, and white, with digital glitch effects breaking the lines.
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Kon Trubkovich: Goodbye Uncle Rudolph

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Liv Siddall

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Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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