Save| Year of creation | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 122.5 W × 122.5 H × 4 D cm |
| Type of art | painting |
| Style | figurative |
| Genre | genre |
| Materials | acrylic, canvas |
Description of the Artwork “Withering Heart Triptych”
This work is the centre piece of a Triptych exploring the withering human heart, in black and white reflecting the artist South African past and inherited burden that holds, edged on body vulnerable in charcoal with shadowing, creating earthy closeness to identity of farm community of his origin. One hand over heart-ache while the other desperately paints/grabs/holds onto black, angled, an exiled identity layer in tones of one white foot, acrylic dimension… white scream black soul.
Withering Heart Triptych
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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.