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In "The Birth of Mammon" I conceived the image of a self-portrait placed centrally in the middle of the composition and around, I concentrated a vascularized cloth with human fragments and animal remains a unitary mass, from which this image is formed. The features of the figure are hidden by the limestone bone mask, inspired by the character from Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera, who gives his main performer a mask of intellectuality, integration, and mystery. Existence bears the mask of Death, and Divination is one of the sources of self-transcendence. The inert and expressionless, petrified face, with its eyes fixed on the beholder, confers the sinister vision of the truth of a bloody birth, or of a beheading, of a heretical split between body and soul. The spirit, in turn, faces with the body, the fear, and fury of time and its elements, but in the last effort, renouncing its origin and giving itself completely to the cursed eternal search, lost forever in the multitude of exhausted souls that populate the planet, he is heading in one direction: annihilation. 
by SAFIR 
OIL ON CANVAS, 200cm x 150cm
ORIGINAL ARTWORK from "The Fall of Angels - The Demonic Rebellion of Creation" series
CONTACT E-MAIL:didosart28@yahoo.com
In "The Birth of Mammon" I conceived the image of a self-portrait placed centrally in the middle of the composition and around, I concentrated a vascularized cloth with human fragments and animal remains a unitary mass, from which this image is formed. The features of the figure are hidden by the limestone bone mask, inspired by the character from Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera, who gives his main performer a mask of intellectuality, integration, and mystery. Existence bears the mask of Death, and Divination is one of the sources of self-transcendence. The inert and expressionless, petrified face, with its eyes fixed on the beholder, confers the sinister vision of the truth of a bloody birth, or of a beheading, of a heretical split between body and soul. The spirit, in turn, faces with the body, the fear, and fury of time and its elements, but in the last effort, renouncing its origin and giving itself completely to the cursed eternal search, lost forever in the multitude of exhausted souls that populate the planet, he is heading in one direction: annihilation. 
by SAFIR 
OIL ON CANVAS, 200cm x 150cm
ORIGINAL ARTWORK from "The Fall of Angels - The Demonic Rebellion of Creation" series
CONTACT E-MAIL:didosart28@yahoo.com
In "The Birth of Mammon" I conceived the image of a self-portrait placed centrally in the middle of the composition and around, I concentrated a vascularized cloth with human fragments and animal remains a unitary mass, from which this image is formed. The features of the figure are hidden by the limestone bone mask, inspired by the character from Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera, who gives his main performer a mask of intellectuality, integration, and mystery. Existence bears the mask of Death, and Divination is one of the sources of self-transcendence. The inert and expressionless, petrified face, with its eyes fixed on the beholder, confers the sinister vision of the truth of a bloody birth, or of a beheading, of a heretical split between body and soul. The spirit, in turn, faces with the body, the fear, and fury of time and its elements, but in the last effort, renouncing its origin and giving itself completely to the cursed eternal search, lost forever in the multitude of exhausted souls that populate the planet, he is heading in one direction: annihilation. 
by SAFIR 
OIL ON CANVAS, 200cm x 150cm
ORIGINAL ARTWORK from "The Fall of Angels - The Demonic Rebellion of Creation" series
CONTACT E-MAIL:didosart28@yahoo.com
In "The Birth of Mammon" I conceived the image of a self-portrait placed centrally in the middle of the composition and around, I concentrated a vascularized cloth with human fragments and animal remains a unitary mass, from which this image is formed. The features of the figure are hidden by the limestone bone mask, inspired by the character from Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera, who gives his main performer a mask of intellectuality, integration, and mystery. Existence bears the mask of Death, and Divination is one of the sources of self-transcendence. The inert and expressionless, petrified face, with its eyes fixed on the beholder, confers the sinister vision of the truth of a bloody birth, or of a beheading, of a heretical split between body and soul. The spirit, in turn, faces with the body, the fear, and fury of time and its elements, but in the last effort, renouncing its origin and giving itself completely to the cursed eternal search, lost forever in the multitude of exhausted souls that populate the planet, he is heading in one direction: annihilation. 
by SAFIR 
OIL ON CANVAS, 200cm x 150cm
ORIGINAL ARTWORK from "The Fall of Angels - The Demonic Rebellion of Creation" series
CONTACT E-MAIL:didosart28@yahoo.com
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THE BIRTH OF MAMMON Painting

Safir Rifas

Romania

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 200 W x 150 H x 2 D cm

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In "The Birth of Mammon" I conceived the image of a self-portrait placed centrally in the middle of the composition and around, I concentrated a vascularized cloth with human fragments and animal remains a unitary mass, from which this image is formed. The features of the figure are hidden by the li...

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2009

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200 W x 150 H x 2 D cm

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SAFIR & RIFAS Artradio interview with Safir and Rifas Safir born on 23.11.1987 and Rifas born on 28.04.1983 in Deva, gained over the years of study in faculty, master and PHD studies, the experience and values necessary for any artist, also we consider that, the diversity in ideas and concepts is an essential addition to development and introduction of "innovation" in the Art World:"the image create the most magnificent cocktail of effect and sensation". What we mean is that we are , professionally trained and educated in both traditional and digital art, but always there are new things to learn, just to be given the chance to do so. The new values that we would bring through our creation in Art is that the diversity and originality would be present in our ideas and artworks that would become not only feasible but also of massive impact. Our creations include traditional painting, figurative or abstract, original concepts, photography, photo - manipulation, digital art. Mixed technique paintings are made by joining or patching pictorial surface with different combinations of materials and textures of cloth, cardboard, plywood, crystals and pulp color, well integrated in the coherence compositional structure. On the one hand, we give free will to the flow evolution and informal gestures, stimulating disintegrative forces, and on the other hand, clarifying forms of human traits, these wandering spirits are pushed to the limit of a symbolic dialogue with the audience. Substrate raise topics of psychological, philosophical, mystical, mythological, fantastic, romantic, literary, mathematical, metaphorical vision prior to painting, through metamorphosis and anamorphosis the figurative to the abstract images, from real to imaginary. "Diversity and originality are two concepts that characterize me. When someone chooses to go on a single road, his vision is blurred and he will not notice anything around him, this happens in art also, so I chose not to follow only one "art direction",instead I divesified my artistic approach. One thing can be recognized in my work and this is the personal touch of my style, this does not change, it's an personal and artistic DNA. Beyond the looking glass you will see the real me. "(Safir) "Matter and deformed concept of the relief form are the two approaches that define my art. What I want to output through my work is that whatever has shape, color, and relief and is tangible as matter is ephemeral.

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