Save| Year of creation | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 125.5 W × 162.6 H × 4 D cm |
| Type of art | painting |
| Style | figurative |
| Genre | genre |
| Materials | acrylic, canvas |
Description of the Artwork “Withering Heart Tript, left”
This work is the left piece of Triptych “Withering Heart”, exploring the withering heart of man, in black and white reflecting the artist South African past. An inherited burden that holds, cut both ways, edged into body, vulnerable in charcoal, shadowing, earthy closeness to identity, farm life of birth, his African roots. Black and white forced to meet at centre, identity and birth- origin, an exiled identity layered in tones the body balance in between white scream and black soul.
Withering Heart Tript, left
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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.