Save| Year of creation | 2017 |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 110 W × 150 H × 1 D cm |
| Type of art | painting |
| Style | expressionism |
| Genre | genre |
| Materials | pastel, paper |
Description of the Artwork “Birth of War”
"Birth of War" pastel on paper studies for series “Sexual Violence & the Consequences of War”. Inspiration by making of documentary films in war zones, working in pastel on brown paper captures an earthy, grittiness that enhances subject matter and surface of the work. A fragility in the skin of brown paper and the body of the women, the birth of a war child, we never seem to learn from the consequences of war and conflict, history repeats itself...the art mirrors
Birth of War
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Marius van Niekerk, Portugal
Marius is an artist working in the film & arts industry as writer, director, producer, cinematographer and visual-painting artist, worked as trauma-art counsellor/facilitator, with war refugees/veterans families, lecturer and published the autobiographic book “BEHIND THE LINES OF THE MIND-healing the mental scars of war” in 2009. "My work often inspired by childhood and war experience, centres around a central theme “the human dilemma/human stain”. Strained compositions of abstract-expressionistic, sometimes more figurative images driven vividly, suggest the burden of violence, a search for identity and initiation, the strain of paint on untreated canvas and raw paper, in a bright pallet of sometimes runny, distorted forms and colours layered, contrasted with sometimes straight, more harmonious forms and colours, reinforced by a powerful image-message and misplaced energy. I sometimes use my films and photographs to drive further video-images in dark room projections, in combination with supporting painting and sound, isolated, binding close-up-feeling-seeing-experience”… We, as artist must, a mirror to society, have a responsibility, in all we do, to constantly work against oppression, discrimination and war.