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Sevina Tzanou

Backstage, 2024170 x 150cmSign in to view price
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oil and acrylic on canvas (cotton)Kendall Koppe
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This vibrant contemporary painting features a dynamic composition of bold colors, expressive brushstrokes, and abstracted human figures. The canvas is a visually captivating blend of oranges, pinks, greens, and blues, creating a sense of energy and movement. The figures are depicted in a stylized, fragmented manner, suggesting a dreamlike or surreal quality. The artist's distinctive technique combines elements of figurative and abstract art, inviting the viewer to engage with the work's emotive and symbolic resonance. This piece likely reflects the artist's intention to explore themes of the human experience, identity, and the subconscious realm. ...

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Sevina Tzanou
Artist
Sevina Tzanou
B.1994, EL

Tzanou's paintings build upon her keen engagement with the construction and representation of the femme and the hyper-femme within painting and its historical language. Tzanou’s large tableaux offer a window into the worlds of burlesque and drag performance, a subculture that Tzanou forms part of - as a performer herself. Tzanou combines scenes of nightlife where glamour teeters with the anarchic, alongside scenes of more introspective moments depicting individual or historical performers ‘behind thecurtain’. In doing so, Tzanou conjures dynamic and complicated depictions of women; touching on ideas of performance that exist on and off ‘stage’. Tzanou speaks to the mythology and expectations surrounding the female form, oscillating between attraction and repulsion. Tzanou's vibrant scenes recalls the debauchery of life in all its decadence, humour and tragedy. Her exuberant paintings emerge from the shadows of abstraction that burst into a cacophony of bodies, limbs and faces that symbiotically exude decadence, desire and disaster. Tzanou studied in Düsseldorf under KatharinaGrosse, Eberhard Havekost and Yesim Akdeniz. Her most recent solo and group exhibitions include: Unapologetic WomXn, Palazzo Bembo, Venice ( Forthcoming); The great Disastress, Kendall Koppe, Glasgow (2023); FinalFantasy, Temnikova & Kasela Gallery, Talinn (2023); Spikes that bite, Margot Samel, New York (2023); Parties I am not Invited to, Robert Grunenberg, Berlin (2022). She has performed at Kunstmuseum Bonn,Bonn and Ka iArt Center, Talinn (Both 2023). She will be the focus of a solo presentation at LISTE, Basel in June 2024. ...

Sevina Tzanou: Artworks
Luz Del Fuego
Sevina Tzanou
Luz Del Fuego, 2023
70 x 50cm
Who Loves the Sun (Not Everyone)
Sevina Tzanou
Who Loves the Sun (Not Everyone), 2024
200 x 160cm
Self Portrait Blending
Sevina Tzanou
Self Portrait Blending, 2024
150 x 130cm
Cut your Bangs
Sevina Tzanou
Cut your Bangs, 2024
50 x 45cm
Unseen Efforts
Sevina Tzanou
Unseen Efforts, 2024
170 x 130cm
Backstage
Sevina Tzanou
Backstage, 2024
170 x 150cm
Night-Thoughts
Sevina Tzanou
Night-Thoughts, 2024
100 x 35cm
Death and the Maidens
Sevina Tzanou
Death and the Maidens, 2024
170 x 100cm
St. G Slaying Dragon
Sevina Tzanou
St. G Slaying Dragon, 2024
50 x 35cm
Ksematiasma
Sevina Tzanou
Ksematiasma, 2024
50 x 40cm
Kendall Koppe
Gallery
Kendall Koppe
Glasgow, Glasgow

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