Un pied mort suspendu / Levitating dead foot, 2021200 x 115 x 4cmSign in to view price
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Material
acrylic and oil pastel on canvas
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.
The artwork features a striking visual composition of bold colors and abstract shapes. The central figure, rendered in a dark silhouette, appears to be a humanoid creature resting on a bed-like structure against a vibrant background of blue, yellow, and red. The artist employs a distinctive style that blends surreal and figurative elements, creating a sense of unease and ambiguity. The work likely explores themes of the human condition, mortality, or the subconscious through its symbolic and enigmatic imagery. ...
Pulling from influences that span his Caribbean heritage, voodoo traditions, devotional and Baroque art, Pol Taburet’s paintings are unique, enigmatic and immediately recognisable. While compositional and stylistic elements within the artist’s works are reminiscent of 20th Century painter Francis Bacon – specifically through their abstracted, distorted and sometimes horrifying figuration, and the two-dimensional colour blocking of the figures’ backdrops – Taburet combines acrylic paint with digital airbrushing. Through this combination of new and old technologies, the artist portrays characters that look like computer-generated avatars, perhaps representations of real people rendered through the digital. Hybridity is a notion reflected both in the figures’ reluctance to be categorised as either human or animal, as well as in the undoing of the binary between life and death. The figures appear to be in limbo, a purgatory of sorts, occupying a flattened, liminal space outside of time.
Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...
