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Safari Painting
Slovenia
Painting, Acrylic on Plastic
Size: 118.1 W x 59.1 H x 0.8 D in
Ships in a Crate
About The Artwork
The series of images was created in its entirety in the year 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic dominated our lives. Most of the images are in a horizontal, relatively narrow, and long format, which in itself expresses distress and anxiety. Motifs of human figures, animals, plants, and objects dominate, floating in spacelessness, whose coordinates are hinted at here and there but are by no means binding.The individual motif is separated from the background, which is mostly monochrome or composed of colour patches of organic forms, by an outline drawing that delineates its living space like a kind of cocoon. The motifs in the cocoons are lined up one next to another or spill into each other, but for the most part, there is no communication or interaction between them – as if they were worlds of their own, springing into life out of nothing and returning there when it is time, without ever knowing about each other. On the fundamental level, then, the paintings speak of the coming into being and passing away of life, and of its equivalence in infinite variety. Just as the whole existence of the mayfly is but a moment for man, so the whole existence of man is but a moment for a sequoia, and from the point of view of life (and death), all three forms of being are the same. So it is no coincidence that most of the paintings have one or another reference to Africa, be it a motif of typical African flora and fauna, a black person, or a colour scheme in predominantly sandy hues. For the average Westerner, Africa is something primordial, wild and terrifying, but also attractive, something distant in space and time but nonetheless homely, something alien to us but nonetheless dear to our hearts – Africa appears in this context as a symbol of our common ancestral homeland, from which we have come and to which we will one day return.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Acrylic on Plastic
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:118.1 W x 59.1 H x 0.8 D in
Frame:Silver
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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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:Slovenia.
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Slovenia
Luka Širok is one of the most prominent artists of the younger generation in the Goriška region of Slovenia. By basic training, he is a painter, but he creates in a variety of media, such as painting, drawing, collage, print, installation, digital art or combinations thereof. Even within a single medium, he applies his typically eclectic approach, for example in painting, he combines different techniques (pastel, ink, acrylic, oil, spray), languages (abstract, figurative) and styles. His installations, on the other hand, are composed of found objects and materials that he combines to create a new whole, sometimes by simply putting them together to form a composition, and sometimes by adding a small sculpture of his own making and/or some colour. Through this approach, he tries to convey an authentic picture of everyday existence, marked by the typical aspects of contemporary life such as perceiving the world in frames, the disintegration of the great mythological systems, the heterogeneity of ethical and moral codes, the pluralism of different opinions and views, extreme individualism, and so on. A brief survey of the artist's painting opus, which makes up the bulk of his work, shows that he was attracted to different artistic directions in different creative periods, and a detailed analysis extracts from this eclectic conglomerate anchor points around which he built a recognizable personal style…
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