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Federico Luger, All Roads Lead to Fortnite.

All Roads Lead to Fortnite (2020) is Federico Luger’s recent series of works. In these new oil paintings the artist was inspired by the popular videogame Fortnite. Each painting depicts one of the so-called “skins”, a sort of gear a player can buy to dress her or his avatar in the game.
Artists had represented the classic topic of the warrior in different ways throughout art history for centuries; and in fact, the composition of each work alludes to the iconography of the historical portrait, in which weapons, garments and attributes conveyed the …