I’ve long been fascinated by the detail of the queen’s chamberlain, Don José Nieto Velázquez, aposentador de la reina, standing on the steps at the back of the picture. Lines of perspective draw our attention to his figure: not only the perspective of the room, but also the line which can be drawn across the heads of the three figures in the foreground right. This work is a reflection on the video itself, starting from Diego Velasquez’s painting in the wake of other more recent reinterpretations by Picasso, Dali, Joel-Peter Witkin or Richard Hamilton. I decided to constantly move the vanishing points (which in the picture converge more or less towards Don José's hips) creating more than 100 new different and almost imperceptible vanishing points, thanks to the over 100 frames that make up the film.

Marius Tănăsescu is a visual artist who lives and works between Bucharest and Montreal. The most significant aspect of his recent works is the taste for the conceptual reinterpretation (especially video) of well-known works from the art history of Andrea Mantegna, Diego Velasquez, Robert Smithson, Garry Hill, etc., but also of some art genres (still life, for example).