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United States
Painting, Oil on Other
Size: 60 W x 40 H x 1.5 D in
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"The Nemo Project" is a series of 4 paintings. "The Hunt", "The Presentation of Leviathan", "The Victory", and "The Seduction of the Nuns". The pieces represent a thrilling tale of an elusive sea beast caught, put up for bid, and sold. Followed by the hunter reveling in his rewards and concluding in a fantasy world that is even too great for him. This project is an autobiographical fantasy infused with Nemoesque imagery for the reason that every piece in "The Nemo Project" is a self portrait which allows me to play director, actor, and writer. Every painting in this project is rendered monochromatically in black and white to conjure up a vision of 1950's cinema, particularly the films of Ed Wood where there needed to be striking visuals with a quirky attitude and a dark underlying humor. The series is an mod twist on the epic Jules Vern classic, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
Painting:Oil on Other
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:60 W x 40 H x 1.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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Victor's works grab your mind, sprit, senses and childhood simultaneously and immediately. It's all of Jules Verne, Tim Burton and Lucian Freud at once. It's dark and its whimsy. It's sensual and childlike. Andrew Wyeth with fisherman's muscles. It's a jocular and hallowed family. Fusion is a word that comes to mind. It's based in reality but vivid with alternate universes suffused with reverence for the body. There is juxtaposition of the beauty and noir that inhabit recesses of our minds, and never see the light of day until Grasso puts it on canvas. Objects, people, events, contexts that should not exist together nor imagined to our eyes are evident on the screen of Victor's mind duplicated in oils. He rediscovers the ochre, blacks and whites of the past and reimagines the future. Triptychs, deserts, deep sea creatures are all found not in their neighborhood nor habitat. It's as if Spielberg found Mallarme. Fellini found Tim Burton may be more apt. Gorgeous women, tentacles, business suits and archaic deep sea helmets with apparatus that find their way comfortably into his canvasses. Oceans, skulls, bathtubs, crocodiles and bikinis - fully sensible and natural in Grasso's world. Panoramas, wind blown skeletonized trees; seascapes, octopi and bald men. Kitchens filled with zoo creatures and creatures of the deep. His models are the village and family - never more flattering or at risk, and bravely exposed. A ride with Grasso is a ride in the hidden areas that inhabit our unconscious, and remain repressed and denied until so provocatively exposed as natural world order in his art. It is both our fear and our lust. It is fulfillingly appealing, while revealing our most hidden secrets now well exposed - seemingly as natural as Disney - gone Louvre.
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