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Please note: this sale includes the hand-painted vanity table, plus any two of the large-format photographs from the VANITAS series. Each photograph is also available to purchase seperately - please do take a look at the full VANITAS series, listed under Collections > Ugly Nature: Vanitas. UGLY NATURE: VANITAS portrays an existential view of nature and the beauty that is present in the natural process of decay. VANITAS is a recognition that the transience of life forms an integral part of the world around us and ultimately provides us with the undeniable triumph of death. The concept is born of the Baroque artists who sought beauty in ugliness and reflected their findings through pieces of elegance and refinement. The artists depicted this opulence alongside the transience of earthly life and their fascination with death through moralistic symbolism. Olowska uses this same symbolism to persuade acceptance and to find beauty throughout life's journey. Olowska chose to present her work on a furniture which represents our fascination with appearance and, quite often, our desire to change it. Once sat at the vanity table however, the visitor's reflection integrates itself into the composition as a reminder to seek out the natural beauty in the passage of time. The table's surface describes the transience of life through blooming and withering flowers, while insects symbolise life's brief passage. The large photographs invite close inspection of the texture, structure and rich colours of the decaying matter and their inherent allure. UGLY NATURE: VANITAS is a collection of works, comprising: - 6 Large Format photographs - Vanity Table with mirror, hand painted in oils
Please note: this sale includes the hand-painted vanity table, plus any two of the large-format photographs from the VANITAS series. Each photograph is also available to purchase seperately - please do take a look at the full VANITAS series, listed under Collections > Ugly Nature: Vanitas. UGLY NATURE: VANITAS portrays an existential view of nature and the beauty that is present in the natural process of decay. VANITAS is a recognition that the transience of life forms an integral part of the world around us and ultimately provides us with the undeniable triumph of death. The concept is born of the Baroque artists who sought beauty in ugliness and reflected their findings through pieces of elegance and refinement. The artists depicted this opulence alongside the transience of earthly life and their fascination with death through moralistic symbolism. Olowska uses this same symbolism to persuade acceptance and to find beauty throughout life's journey. Olowska chose to present her work on a furniture which represents our fascination with appearance and, quite often, our desire to change it. Once sat at the vanity table however, the visitor's reflection integrates itself into the composition as a reminder to seek out the natural beauty in the passage of time. The table's surface describes the transience of life through blooming and withering flowers, while insects symbolise life's brief passage. The large photographs invite close inspection of the texture, structure and rich colours of the decaying matter and their inherent allure. UGLY NATURE: VANITAS is a collection of works, comprising: - 6 Large Format photographs - Vanity Table with mirror, hand painted in oils
Please note: this sale includes the hand-painted vanity table, plus any two of the large-format photographs from the VANITAS series. Each photograph is also available to purchase seperately - please do take a look at the full VANITAS series, listed under Collections > Ugly Nature: Vanitas. UGLY NATURE: VANITAS portrays an existential view of nature and the beauty that is present in the natural process of decay. VANITAS is a recognition that the transience of life forms an integral part of the world around us and ultimately provides us with the undeniable triumph of death. The concept is born of the Baroque artists who sought beauty in ugliness and reflected their findings through pieces of elegance and refinement. The artists depicted this opulence alongside the transience of earthly life and their fascination with death through moralistic symbolism. Olowska uses this same symbolism to persuade acceptance and to find beauty throughout life's journey. Olowska chose to present her work on a furniture which represents our fascination with appearance and, quite often, our desire to change it. Once sat at the vanity table however, the visitor's reflection integrates itself into the composition as a reminder to seek out the natural beauty in the passage of time. The table's surface describes the transience of life through blooming and withering flowers, while insects symbolise life's brief passage. The large photographs invite close inspection of the texture, structure and rich colours of the decaying matter and their inherent allure. UGLY NATURE: VANITAS is a collection of works, comprising: - 6 Large Format photographs - Vanity Table with mirror, hand painted in oils
Please note: this sale includes the hand-painted vanity table, plus any two of the large-format photographs from the VANITAS series. Each photograph is also available to purchase seperately - please do take a look at the full VANITAS series, listed under Collections > Ugly Nature: Vanitas. UGLY NATURE: VANITAS portrays an existential view of nature and the beauty that is present in the natural process of decay. VANITAS is a recognition that the transience of life forms an integral part of the world around us and ultimately provides us with the undeniable triumph of death. The concept is born of the Baroque artists who sought beauty in ugliness and reflected their findings through pieces of elegance and refinement. The artists depicted this opulence alongside the transience of earthly life and their fascination with death through moralistic symbolism. Olowska uses this same symbolism to persuade acceptance and to find beauty throughout life's journey. Olowska chose to present her work on a furniture which represents our fascination with appearance and, quite often, our desire to change it. Once sat at the vanity table however, the visitor's reflection integrates itself into the composition as a reminder to seek out the natural beauty in the passage of time. The table's surface describes the transience of life through blooming and withering flowers, while insects symbolise life's brief passage. The large photographs invite close inspection of the texture, structure and rich colours of the decaying matter and their inherent allure. UGLY NATURE: VANITAS is a collection of works, comprising: - 6 Large Format photographs - Vanity Table with mirror, hand painted in oils
Please note: this sale includes the hand-painted vanity table, plus any two of the large-format photographs from the VANITAS series. Each photograph is also available to purchase seperately - please do take a look at the full VANITAS series, listed under Collections > Ugly Nature: Vanitas. UGLY NATURE: VANITAS portrays an existential view of nature and the beauty that is present in the natural process of decay. VANITAS is a recognition that the transience of life forms an integral part of the world around us and ultimately provides us with the undeniable triumph of death. The concept is born of the Baroque artists who sought beauty in ugliness and reflected their findings through pieces of elegance and refinement. The artists depicted this opulence alongside the transience of earthly life and their fascination with death through moralistic symbolism. Olowska uses this same symbolism to persuade acceptance and to find beauty throughout life's journey. Olowska chose to present her work on a furniture which represents our fascination with appearance and, quite often, our desire to change it. Once sat at the vanity table however, the visitor's reflection integrates itself into the composition as a reminder to seek out the natural beauty in the passage of time. The table's surface describes the transience of life through blooming and withering flowers, while insects symbolise life's brief passage. The large photographs invite close inspection of the texture, structure and rich colours of the decaying matter and their inherent allure. UGLY NATURE: VANITAS is a collection of works, comprising: - 6 Large Format photographs - Vanity Table with mirror, hand painted in oils
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Ugly Nature: Vanitas Painting

Zuzanna Hope née Olowska

Portugal

Painting, Oil on Glass

Size: 59.5 W x 49 H x 23 D in

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Please note: this sale includes the hand-painted vanity table, plus any two of the large-format photographs from the VANITAS series. Each photograph is also available to purchase seperately - please do take a look at the full VANITAS series, listed under Collections > Ugly Nature: Vanitas. UGLY NATURE: VANITAS portrays an existential view of nature and the beauty that is present in the natural process of decay. VANITAS is a recognition that the transience of life forms an integral part of the world around us and ultimately provides us with the undeniable triumph of death. The concept is born of the Baroque artists who sought beauty in ugliness and reflected their findings through pieces of elegance and refinement. The artists depicted this opulence alongside the transience of earthly life and their fascination with death through moralistic symbolism. Olowska uses this same symbolism to persuade acceptance and to find beauty throughout life's journey. Olowska chose to present her work on a furniture which represents our fascination with appearance and, quite often, our desire to change it. Once sat at the vanity table however, the visitor's reflection integrates itself into the composition as a reminder to seek out the natural beauty in the passage of time. The table's surface describes the transience of life through blooming and withering flowers, while insects symbolise life's brief passage. The large photographs invite close inspection of the texture, structure and rich colours of the decaying matter and their inherent allure. UGLY NATURE: VANITAS is a collection of works, comprising: - 6 Large Format photographs - Vanity Table with mirror, hand painted in oils

Details & Dimensions

Multi-paneled Painting:Oil on Glass

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:59.5 W x 49 H x 23 D in

Number of Panels:2

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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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