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From the series: ELEMENTS. A series about the fundamental phenomena that enable our physical existence, manifesting in many diverse ways. Their portrayal in these images often relates to their psychological, rather than their physical form. These 12 pods are a subseries of ELEMENTS. They are reincarnations of one parched patch of earth, that was shot from above and then photo manipulated into twelve spheres -- identical but distinct -- that form a coherent set, 12 variations on a theme, almost like a spectrum. They are the result of me tweaking a bitmap for the sheer joy of tweaking, and the delight in the results. Apart from that I would say that taking a parched piece of earth, and turning that into all these pods, is rather gratifying in a conceptual sense. Some of the pods refer to their arid place of origin, and increasingly urgent planetary issues more explicitly than others. ---------------------------- Large Size 80 x 80 cm / 32” x 32” LAMINATED EDITION OF 12 + 2 AP Archival Pigment Print on Innova Fibaprint (285 g/m²), Dibond / Diasec laminated, and fitted with an aluminum frame on the back, which makes the panel seem to float about an inch from the wall. The Diasec front layer enhances color and depth, while protecting it from atmospheric influences. Signed and numbered on the back. Comes with detailed Certificate of Authenticity. This work is ready to hang on your wall, straight out of the box. --------------------------------------- Please allow 15 working days preparation time. -------------------------------------------------------------- Also available: Small Size 60 x 60 cm / 24” x 24” Via artist website: www.axelsaffran.com -------------------------------------------------------------- OPEN EDITION PRINTS of this work are sold exclusively via Saatchi Art, and are signed digitally in the print itself.
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Netherlands
I am a portrait / figurative artist based in Venlo, Netherlands, working mainly in charcoal, pastel, graphite and silver point. I draw portraits, plus sometimes vintage scenes based on antique photographs, re-imagined classical/mythological golden oldies, and some anthropomorphised forces of nature. My main focus is on Humans, with a bias toward the female form, and toward issues on a planetary scale. My approach to inspirational input is that of an omnivore, feeding in 360º on both 'high' and 'low' culture. My creative output has always been similarly divers in form. (i.e. sculptures in stone/metal/wood, paintings, murals, digital photo-based work) Only recently I have been able to narrow things down a bit. Over the last decade, I was forced to focus on one mode of expression (2D, digital), and a couple of years ago I returned full circle to the place where my creativity once sprouted... DRAWINGS Early 2020, I started drawing again, after not having done that for more than a decade, and not this seriously since my childhood/adolescence, when I hardly did anything else. I draw in a sparse yet naturalistic style, capturing many details but also adding layers dealing with realities of existence beyond the obviously visible. They are expressed in colour, direction, gesture, texture, juxtaposition of elements. My images are spiked with a promiscuous mix of style features, which often makes labeling them as such into a somewhat laughable exercise, merely justified by heightened findability. I guess what I make is usually called 'outsider art'. Facing the world as it is evolving, in my current situation, this is my natural response. I try to steer clear of explicit commentary, or attempts at 'activism', focussing instead on developing my draftmanship and chasing beauty in different ways. Still, behind all of my pieces there is also the incredulously curious alien, attempting to process present day reality on Earth while trying to stay sane. ------------------------------------------- In the decade preceding my current adventure as a late-blooming draftsman, my medium has been a Mac with Wacom tablet and much maligned but truly magnificent Photoshop. Plus a high end printer (commercial art printer for large formats) to get physical output. The output consisted of photomontages/manipulations. Scroll down for a couple of them that I left on the page.
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