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Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 141.7 W x 63 H x 2 D in
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"The Game" currently consists of 36 canvasses, 40x40 cm (15.75x15.75 in) each. It is really big and representative. Each face has a separate canvas, which allows you to freely compose the artwork (you decide on the composition and arrangement of the faces). Single canvases greatly facilitate the transport of such a large painting. They are packed 8-10 pieces in each individual box weighing 7-9 kg. The painting entitled "The Game" is my currently biggest work and it is still being expanded, because it is based on the idea of a never-ending painting. The way I do this is by organizing a happening during an exhibition, in order have the faces of its participants cast and then become a part of a more composite painting. The composition itself can be interpreted in various ways. It may be seen as a symbol of our reality filled with people we pass by every day, their faces being only an ephemeral image. The work also refers to aesthetic canon from antiquity by depicting masculine and feminine figures in slightly different shades. Finally, there is the most significant aspect of it- the game. The chessboard with faces placed on it is used to criticize the society which reduces a person to a pawn or just another number in statistics, anonymous and incomplete.
2008
Oil on Canvas
One-of-a-kind Artwork
141.7 W x 63 H x 2 D in
Not Framed
No
Ships in a Crate
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Poland.
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55 exhibitions, 30 art awards & 8 nominations, 25 publications. Born in 1987. Contemporary figurative artist creating three-dimensional paintings with her own technique using paper-mache, canvas and oil paint. The paintings reveal a sculptural vision of form, they surprise with their diversity in terms of structure and message, focusing on showing the aspect of human existence. The characters in her paintings are static, even rigid, as if frozen in certain poses, thus showing a specific social problem, which is loneliness, limitation, pressure or anonymity. The current subject of the works focuses on issues related to perception and transformation, but above all on empathy and the presentation of various emotional states of a human being. The departure from the traditional range of colors in favor of white allows for perfect accentuation of light and shade. Everything seems to be saturated with symbolic content, the author entrusts her thoughts to the artistic matter and impresses it with her own feelings. Gaya Lastovjak's art defies all classifications and definitions, it is subtle and at the same time critical. Her works have been featured in international exhibitions in Austria, Spain, Monaco, Portugal, Netherlands, Italy among others. Her paintings has been acquired by private collectors from Switzerland, USA, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Germany and other countries around the world. In addition, she is involved in sculpture / paper installations, performance and happening art.
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