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| Year of creation | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 125.5 W × 160 H × 4 D cm |
| Type of art | painting |
| Style | figurative |
| Genre | nude |
| Materials | acrylic, canvas |
Description of the Artwork “Promise of Pan centre”
This work is the centre piece of Triptych “Promise of Pan”, inspired from photographs I took working with newly arrived war-refugee children, integrating into small Swedish community, of a Swedish boy’s inability to cope. Worked in charcoal, shadowed, the earthy rawness, expressing exploit[ive]ed nudity, pastel background colouring juxtapose forward leaning boy figure enticed, lured by armed shadow, covering his ears, frightened, to false masculine ritual, must find his own way through the golden door. Boy’s naked/nudity reflect vulnerability, frustration and lost innocence, thin red line of blood trickles down inner thigh suggests abuse, with armed shadow projecting both past and possible future. Thin red line continues, of truth leads to golden door, fallen wall lamp lies together with golden key and penis sheath, walled in by society restrains, the boy from getting what he needs to discover, to initiate…
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.