This contemporary artwork features a striking visual composition. The central element is a large, pale mushroom with an intriguing, segmented cap. The mushroom is set against a bold, vibrant pink background, creating a striking contrast. The overall arrangement suggests a playful, surreal quality, with the mushroom's distinctive form and the vivid color serving as the main focal points. The artist's skillful use of textures and shapes, combined with the unexpected color palette, contribute to the work's unique and thought-provoking nature. This piece likely aims to challenge conventional perceptions and encourage the viewer to consider the relationship between natural forms and the creative expression. ...
When people describe his paintings as “absurd”, Calvin Marcus notes that such description is produced out of the feeling that “there shouldn’t be paintings like his”. A floating coca-cola next to an elephant, gigantic nipple on a grass, a naked woman-mountain and cows stretching over the horizon, Marcus’s large paintings are extremely bold in both colour and depiction. The artist is interested in confrontation, with his audience, with an artistic persona, as well as logical parameters of painting as a medium. Stripped of unnecessary detail and drowning in the sea of colour, Marcus’s works are open spaces of unnerving meaning unconnected to one another. Born in 1988 in San Francisco and now based in LA, Marcus creates dazzling uncomfort that strikes directly at his viewer’s subjectivity.
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C L E A R I N G is a contemporary art gallery based in New York, Los Angeles and Brussels. The gallery was founded in 2011, with the focus of showing emerging art. It now represents over 20 living artists, providing many of them - such as Harold Ancart, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Chase Hall, Calvin Marcus and Marina Pinsky - with their first gallery exhibition. The gallery also represents the estates of Eduardo Paolozzi, Bruno Gironcoli and René Heyvaert. C L E A R I N G supports its artists by producing works, exhibitions and books, as well as working closely with public and private institutions. ...
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