A NEW STORY SOMEWHERE DEEP INSIDE The interest to Emzari Kiknavelidze’s work can be largely explained by unusual style and genre orientation of his paintings. The artist brings to the contemporary art entirely new pictorial variations. Of course, the origins of his art have national roots: “I think that such paintings can only be made […]
HAUNTING AND ROMANTIC WOMEN Sarah Dolby’s work has always been character driven and combines traditional portraiture with narrative. The haunting, romantic women of her Gothic paintings are often famous literary figures including Ophelia and Mary Shelley, or more recently, fairy tale archetypes. Dolby’s characters are immediately dazzling in their power and beauty, but on closer […]
THE TROPHIES OF LIFE AND DEATH Lifo Kim is an illustrator and tattoo artist based in South Korea. Each illustration features broken objects, burning candles, sacrificial knives, royal skulls, opium pipes or chiseled chess pieces, carefully exposed like the trophies of a cabinet of curiosities. In this place, oriental deities seems to haunt shadows creatures: insects, […]
THE SELF-MYSTERY OF THE HUMAN Agnieszka Nienartowicz’s main interest is the human and that what is around them. Attempting to penetrate their world, she tries to catch the intimacy and self-mystery in simple situations, gestures and glances. Intrigued by the moment of boundary between the original and the reproduction, in realism she finds the way […]
THE GROTESQUE AS NUDITY OF THE SOUL The grotesque does not necessarily imply ugliness, sometimes just nakedness of the soul, a category of approaching beauty from a certain provocation that does not leave the viewer passive, not even the artistic object itself. A slight nod to the grotesque to make reality more apparent. Overflowing beauty […]
THE DREAM-LIKE OF CREATURES Kane Kokaris is an Australian artist and amateur paleontologist from Gold Coast, Australia. His paintings are imaginative, stylised and often dark. Influences vary from nature and wildlife, to tattoo culture. He looks to partially tell a story within each composition, giving creatures a dream-like world of their own. Although most tales […]
