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Some like it not at the Musée d’Orsay

Gustave’s erotic masterpiece is enacted, Cindy Sherman does an app, but the YBAs don’t do Russia – catch our latest global wrap.

19 Jun 2014 12:00

Gina Fairley

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Visual Arts

Deborah de Robertis performing Mirror of Origin. Photo: Video still via DailyMotion.

Luxembourg performance artist Deborah de Robertis sat down in front of Gustave Courbet’s iconic erotic painting L’Origine du monde (Origin of the World) (1866), hanging in Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, and recreated the piece.

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Gina Fairley

Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Instagram: fairleygina