SavePromise of Pan left Triptych
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| Year of creation | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 92 W × 120 H × 4 D cm |
| Type of art | painting |
| Style | figurative |
| Genre | genre |
| Materials | acrylic |
Description of the Artwork “Promise of Pan left Triptych”
This work is the left piece of Triptych "Promise of Pan", inspired from a photograph I took working with newly arrived war-refugee children, of a Swedish boy (picture right) and an Iraqi war-refugee boy (picture left) that arrived in Sweden and the difficulty of integrating into a new culture. Their naked/nudity reflect vulnerability, frustration and lost innocence. Worked in charcoal, shadowed, the earthy rawness, expressing their exploitive nudity, acrylic and light pastel background colouring juxtapose their grim existence, divided by the thin red line of truth, the need/lack of true initiation. With ants moving in and out of Iraqi boy’s shadow with impunity, both walled into their own cultural legacy.
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.