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Enigma Painting

Carlos Ferg

Spain

Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 29.9 W x 48 H x 1.6 D in

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This is a version of 1864 Gustave Moreau’s work. It represents Oedipus and Sphinx’s myth, in particular the moment when the sphinx tried to seduce Oedipus once he has resolved her enigmas. This work reflects again the ‘femme fatale’ portrayed on Symbolism, arguing about women’s freedom and independence during the second part of 19th Century. We have walked a long way since then but is it enough? From Egyptian culture, the Sphinx was a symbol of death, a kind of rebel femininity,sexually active, opposed to the man dominion in a conservative patriarchal society. I normally used to work with acrylics for many reasons. Recently I started to work in a new project in relation to rediscover the symbolist works from 19th century, trying to find a different meaning according with this era, answering how has been the role of women in our society in relation with freedom and independence since 19th century.

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Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:29.9 W x 48 H x 1.6 D in

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Carlos Ferg (1977) is a Spanish artist who has lived for ten years in Manchester (United Kingdom), where he established his studio and from where he began his artistic career. Currently he has moved his studio to Valencia, Spain. After residing in various cities in Spain for part of his childhood and adolescence, he graduated in Art History (Spain, 2001). Later, he moved to Madrid, without pursuing an artistic career, and although he always liked drawing, he wanted to take painting classes, a step beyond the simple application of drawing on paper. While working in different fields away from the creative environment, he maintained the habit of visiting museums, something that maintained his connection with the artistic environment. After ten years living in Madrid, and due to personal circumstances, he began a process of learning pictorial techniques on his own, researching and developing his own style, first through the medium considered essential throughout history, the oil technique. During this stage he became very interested in the work of Velázquez and, fundamentally, in Sorolla's study of volume and light. At that time, he had the opportunity to move to the United Kingdom and the opportunity to explore and learn new mixed media such as pastel, acrylic, watercolor, etc., in addition to receiving new artistic and pictorial influences especially from British artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is in 2015, when he decides to develop a more solid project that will lead him to configure his own work, promoting his personal style in terms of technique and content. He is currently developing a figurative project, based on an update of the works of Symbolism, a movement that had its greatest impact at the end of the 19th century and that was intrinsically linked to the literary movement developed in Paris, as its epicenter and that was spreading. to the rest of Europe and influencing the other arts in a notorious way. Hence, writers such as Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Poe, etc. stand out, who formed the nucleus of the group that would become known as The Damned poets.

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