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Portugal
Painting, Oil on Glass
Size: 9 W x 11 H x 1 D in
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MORCEGO (Bat) I always wanted to paint this animal, as cute as a kitten but with roots that penetrate deep into our culture and imaginations, tapping into our fear and passed on through European folklore and symbolism. To be honest, I felt for a long time that the bat was probably too cute for me to paint. I would need to find the perfect context for it, otherwise I would end up creating sentimental kitsch. I had all but forgotten about him when, one warm November evening in Porto, I was hunting for old frames in a small bric-a-brac shop full of treasure and trash and I discovered an incredible picture. Some Portuguese person, not necessarily an artist, had gone to extraordinary lengths to create a beautiful collage of snake skins and translucent butterfly wings which formed a backdrop for a poorly photocopied image of the Brazilian statue of Christ the Redeemer. It blew my mind that this person had decided that these dark, morbid elements would provide the perfect decoration for the subject, or that these vivid, shimmering, natural decorations would compliment such a poor quality picture. To my mind, this unhinged, startling picture was a work of art in itself and I wasnʼt sure if I had the heart to take it apart and reuse the frame. Then the image of the bat returned to me and I could see I had found the perfect habitat for it.
Painting:Oil on Glass
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:9 W x 11 H x 1 D in
Frame:Brown
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Ships From:Portugal.
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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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