SaveBurden left of Triptych
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| Year of creation | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 125 W × 162 H × 4 D cm |
| Type of art | painting |
| Style | abstract |
| Genre | portrait |
| Materials | acrylic |
Description of the Artwork “Burden left of Triptych”
This work is the left piece of a Triptych, inspired by work on a documentary film exploring the lives of women and girl survivors of sexual violence in Congo DRC, their journey toward understanding, sanity, healing and atonement. Composition of abstract-expressionistic driven, vividly, action painted, suggest the burden of violence, a search toward balance in the strain of paint on untreated canvas, in bright pallet of sometimes runny, distorted forms and colours layered, thickened with chalk, scraped and cut resembling the weight of patriarchy & machismo carried by damaged female bodies, contrasted with sometimes straight, juxtaposing more harmonious forms and colours, reinforced by strong image-message and misplace energy.
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.