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Meeting at the lodge Painting

Gergely Bukovinszki

United Kingdom

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 60 W x 40 H x 1.5 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Imagine our world, when suddenly electricity has disappeared even for a couple of weeks. I submit, it wouldn't take long before people would practice their deepest and most horrific desires on each other. Cannibalism would be the least of our problems, but accounts of anthropophagy date all the way back to biblical times. Humans are the only known species that would kill or torture its own kind for fun, show tendencies of pedophilia or necrophilia. The best known examples probably would be the masses of human sacrifices made by the Mesoamerican people in the pre-Columbian era. In the painting I envisioned a situation, whereby the thrive for animalistic desires and deviant behaviour goes beyond law and order, or it is exactly just that in certain echelons of society. I made the artwork to remind the viewer what Earthly life is really about. The scene was inspired by my observations of human behaviour in modern society, Nietzschean model of herd instinct, studying the work "Instincts of the herd in Peace and War" by Wilfred Trotter, social studies made by members of the Fabian society, as well as contemporary popular culture, such as the works of movie director Stanley Kubrick, or actor, writer, comedian George Carlin and much more influence coming together over the past few years.

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Painting:

Oil on Canvas

Original:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

60 W x 40 H x 1.5 D in

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For me, creating art is a way of existence, a way of looking at things and decoding, processing information. I was born in Hungary into a musical family, but by the age of fifteen I found visual communication to be the way to express my observations, deepest thoughts and emotions. By the time I completed BA studies in 2009 I was already slightly disillusioned by the “art world” in general, and realised that I better beat my own path. Being attracted to the vibrant life of London and the beauty of the coastline in the South East of England, I decided to move there to find a word of wisdom, challenge my paradigm and gain worldly experiences of a lifetime. I have spent the next few years finding my own voice as a painter, traveling, researching and compiling a vast amount of literature in all sorts of alternative subjects so I can confidently stand behind what I express in art without sounding like a baby crying in a crib. I developed great respect for stoicism and self studied theories of human psychology whilst continuously experimented with oil painting techniques and also completed commissions to keep in practice. Today, I primarily paint with oil, themes that reflect my views of society and questions about human existence in general. I find oil paint to be the most suitable medium - kindly forgiving, yet to be a powerhouse of expressive voice. I appreciate the balance between slightly rough surface created by thick coat of paint, and the highly detailed fine edges, playful thin coats of paint colouring the surface underneath. Through my paintings I aim to tell stories inspired by both current social and personal life events, my years long research into the occult (hidden) world, history, symbolism and my observations of how the human psyche can be and actually is affected by various traumatic events in a lifetime. The viewer should expect serious topics explored with a hint of dark humour injected at times. Instead of arriving at convictions, I ask questions regarding the original, uncorrupted purpose of life on this plane of existence, leaving behind religious traditions and conventional ideas; and thous attempting to find the “way out of here”.

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