Save| Year of creation | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 165.5 W × 125.5 H × 4 D cm |
| Type of art | painting |
| Style | figurative |
| Genre | genre |
| Materials | acrylic |
Description of the Artwork “The Boys-Innocence Lost”
This work is the right piece of the Triptych "The Boys-Innocence Lost”, inspired from photographs I took working with newly arrived war-refugee children, of a Swedish boy (picture left) and an Iraqi war-refugee boy (picture right) that arrived in Sweden and the difficulty of integrating in a new culture, climate. Worked in pastel and charcoal, shadowed, the earthy rawness, expressing their exploit[ive]ed nudity, acrylic background colouring juxtapose their grim "ghetto" existence. Their naked/nudity reflect vulnerability, frustration and lost innocence, an escaping armed shadow "tokoloshe" projecting both past and possible future.
The Boys-Innocence Lost
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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.