PLAYBOY X-RAY

[by ALEXANDRU DONE]

Fan: Hugh Hefner, Buddha, and Gandhi. Cities: Monaco and Pyongyang. Brands: Rolex and McDonald's. His only posts are short comments on luxury articles. He has just a few friends. He's an exclusive kind of guy. He doesn't click "accept" without references. He wears Converse and Cesare Paciotti, and sometimes indulges in the nostalgia of magical realism. He's retro-cool. In the photo section, he still hasn't uploaded anything, even though he has an entire archive of conquests. He's not active on his wall either. The status section contains no information, and his avatar is just a shape. That's roughly what the Facebook profile of the atypical playboy imagined by Dan Voinea should look like - a complicated and interesting character. Playboy Afternoon represents an x-ray of suspended gestures in the aftermath of our daily tremor, lazily unfolding as a sequence of celluloid frames. The main characters skid surrealistically out of an ordinary emotional wireframe, fill the void in the imaginary and then transfer our reality into a Hollywood-type mind-set, with some tongue-in-cheek classical references. In Dan Voinea's vision, the kiss scene is recalibrated and the main characters are only capable of a self referential kind of love, caught in a hunt for alter egos. A psychological tragic comedy using surprising images that have the aftertaste of unfulfillment, of a goal which, in order to finally achieve, you may need a 'help' button.