VIEW IN MY ROOM
Portugal
Painting, Oil on Wood
Size: 9 W x 13 H x 1 D in
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MACACO ESQUILO (Squirrel Monkey) Living with my family and our animals on our small farm taught me a lesson that was hard to accept but essential to understand: if you love nature and you want to be close to it, you have to learn how to accept and love death as it is an integral part of life. It was tough to live with my animals and love them to pieces, giving them as much freedom as possible while knowing that at any time something might happen to them. The more natural a life you give them, the more they are exposed to the cruelty of nature. And we witnessed this first hand: the fox became my nemesis, sneaking in to murder our beloved chickens while our backs were turned. But we could not hate the foxes. These sleek, beautiful, elegant creatures were simply trying to survive in a world where humans were reducing wildlife's habitat. How could we hate them if we understand their own struggles? We 'civilised' humans have created an environment for ourselves where we no longer have to face the threats of nature. We are spoilt by a convenient disconnection between our modern lives and nature's dark side. On a day-to-day basis we barely give any thought to death. Perhaps this is why we find it sohard to accept when it comes crashing back into our lives. I discovered this Squirrel Monkey skeleton at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. I chose to hide it in a mirror as a creepy surprise and the perspective from which it is painted increases the effect. But for me at least, for all its creepiness, I can still see the cute, furry monkey gazing back at me, reaching out for a cuddle.
Painting:Oil on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:9 W x 13 H x 1 D in
Frame:Gold
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Zuzanna Hope (née Olowska) was born in Gdansk, Poland, 1983, into an intensely artistic family. She studied art and interior design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland (2007 - 2011). Zuzanna works mainly with traditional oil painting or drawing, but also photography and design, for clients and galleries in Portugal, Poland, England, United Arab Emirates, Spain, and USA. She worked as a mural painter, interior and graphic designer and an art consultant in Shoreditch, London (2012 - 2015) before establishing an alternative art gallery called Division Zero in Porto, where she exhibited her works and curated other artists (2016 - 2018). Working alongside the Faculdade de Belas Artes at the University of Porto, Zuzanna hosted an art retreat based around her farm near Amarante, with a final exhibition at Lugar de Desenho, Fundação Júlio Resende, Porto (2018). At 28th of May 2022, Zuzanna Hope open the MUSO Art Gallery in Amarante with focus on promoting an international artists, whose works cover a variety of mediums. Gallery also intends to create bridges between the different forms of arts: visual, poetry, music, among others. In her gallery Zuzanna is curating and organising regular group exhibitions and music concerts. As a curator of the MUSO Art Gallery in Amarante, Zuzanna Hope, with support from Amadeo de Sousa-Cardoso Museum in Amarante and Faculdade de Belas Artes at the University of Porto, crated an international art competition MUSE, Homage to poet Teixeira de Pascoaes. With a final exhibition at the Amadeo de Sousa- Cardoso Museum and an exhibition catalogue with poems of Teixeria de Pascoaes translated for the first time to English lenguage (2022). Recent exhibitions include: Solo exhibition at CCBombarda, Rua Miguel Bombarda for Inaugurações Simultâneas (April 2017) Live painting performance at CCBombarda for Inaugurações Simultâneas (May 2017) Group exhibition at Miguel Costa Cabral & Associados (May 2019) Group exhibition at Casa da Granja Museum, Amarante (December 2022) Zuzanna continues to host oil painting and drawing workshops at MUSO Art Gallery in Amarante. Zuzanna takes her inspiration from observing her surroundings, the simplicity of nature's rules, and humanity's place within them. She explores everything from brute realism, symbolism, through to memories from recurring dreams.
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