The article focuses on the work of the Slovenian painter Žiga Kariz between 2011 and 2018, when pornographic images were included in his paintings. Through a close reading of these paintings and the installation La Mariee Fuck Yeah (2012) and an indepth interview, it concludes that the images, which at first glance are explicitly pornographic, are in fact a contemporary version of the works of the great modernists of the early 20th century. By appropriating the works of Duchamp and Matisse, the artist achieves a reading of the pornographic element as a further moment of popular culture and at the same time as a formal element of the painting.
