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Czech Republic
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 32 W x 95 H x 2 D in
Ships in a Crate
The size of the canvas corresponds to the strangely elongated shape of the country, framed with infinite fjords on the West coast. The abstract form of the fjords can be seen on the left side of the painting where strokes of black and yellow paint penetrate and saturate through the right side of the canvas. The author, briskly, inscribes “Petroleum” in the Norwegian language, clarifying that this is related to the oil leaking through Norwegian society. The paradox of this work is in the word “friluftsliv”, which is outlined in the same colours, yet connoting the Norwegian way of living in harmony with nature. Can it be argued that the way Norwegian society has used the money from oil sales is a compromise, given life in harmony with nature? Is there any harmony at the core of Norwegian society? The author gives us the opportunity to answer these questions ourselves. The inscription denoting the area of the drawn country, present in every painting from the concept “Maps of the Happiest Countries” serves as a sort of a signature. It is specifically done to raise this question: How important is the element of territory in the 21st century? The area of Norway is 385,207 square kilometers. Through this work, the author encourages us to find harmony in nature and with our loved ones.
Multi-paneled Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:32 W x 95 H x 2 D in
Number of Panels:2
Frame:Black
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
Handling:Ships in a wooden crate for additional protection of heavy or oversized artworks. Crated works are subject to an $80 care and handling fee. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines.
Ships From:Czech Republic.
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Czech Republic
Alex Protsenko was born in 1995 in Kazakhstan, into a poor family, in a small village where he spent all of his childhood. Currently, he lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic. As an artist, Alex likes exploring through his art different themes, such as: emigration, understanding, feeling and achieving happiness, internally and in society in general, and the price of achieving of happiness, the essence of the feeling itself and current social problems. The artist is not indifferent to these themes, as he went, both physically and mentally, through these problems himself. A deep paradox exists in the artist: on one hand, he wants to reflect on these themes by diving deeper and deeper into solitude; and, on the other hand, he wants to keep an endless dialogue with people from different parts of the world. Thus, painting allows the artist to do all the above mentioned. Alex Protsenko is a person who, on one side, acts upon his creativity throughout his whole life, or who adapts his entire life to creativity; and on the other side, does not have a specialized education. This person, on one hand, is a successful entrepreneur, who has already built a business in the real estate sector and on the other hand, a creator, pursuing his creative goals beyond the boundaries of academic art and economic rules. At the age of 18, Alex travelled a distance of 4,000 km, as an emigrant student from deserted Kazakhstan to the center of Europe, without the knowledge of the languages. Empty pocketed, except for his ambitions, anticipation and great admiration for the cultures, mode of life, lifestyle and opportunities of Europe. His path was endlessly thorny, winding like a sinusoid stretching into the skies. At 28 years old, today, he is a man of steel, whom little can frighten or lead into chaos; he is a settled family man and the owner of a profitable company: he is an artist whose energy cannot help but spill out onto his canvases.
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