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Cats in Bags Painting
Greece
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 102.4 W x 78 H x 1.6 D in
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My piece "cats in bags" is about the pursuit of happiness. Like the people around me who I enjoy observing, I position happiness at some point in the future. As though happiness isn’t something you can have in the here and now. Religions promise happiness in the afterlife. Children look ahead to when they’ll be grown up. We all of us wait: for a steady income, our own home, a new car, finding our other half, having children of our own. When we get these things, then we’ll be happy. But when these things are achieved, there’s something else that isn’t right yet. We don’t feel like we expected to feel; something’s still missing, so we postpone our happiness yet again for some tomorrow. I paint heavens. In the plural, no single happiness here. I use beaches with palm trees metaphorically—trees brought West from far-flung colonies, symbols of a ‘supposed’ paradise, of a heaven as unattainably utopian as the happiness we seek. The colours glow, inviting the viewer to look at the people in these alien, unrecognisable landscapes. Bodies grown old, neglected, imperfect; people alone, cut off from their en- vironment, unsatisfied, needy. “I tried to keep the paint as good as it was in the can”, as Frank Stella said in an inter- view on the radio in 1964. There is a link in Western culture between colour and mass culture, kitsch, the artificial, the feminine, the oriental, the childish; with hallucinations and artificial heavens. Things serious come in black and white. A two-dimensional world inhabited by lines and shapes, flat, linear, blandly colourless, solid.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:102.4 W x 78 H x 1.6 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships Rolled in a Tube
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Ships From:Greece.
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Greece
Stella Kapezanou is a visual artist composing complex, ironic and sometimes obscure works which draw their inspiration from capitalistic and materialistic western societies. The artist’s point of departure is the very ‘aesthetics of consumption’’, and therefore she draws her images from the ‘everyday’ life of people and the relations which bind them with objects, places and times. She is intrigued by subjects that are not considered ‘high art’ but rather ‘ordinary’, in the sense that they are familiar to the viewers’ eyes, and she strives to define the real relations between 'men' and their ‘things’. As a matter of fact, she paints the very absence of relations. Her subjects don’t quite intersect, they’re just strange people playing in a fake world. Kapezanou’s paintings are too picture perfect, almost adverts, unrelated possibilities in the same frame of the painting. The depicted scenes could never quite occur; the sky is an ideal sky, the green grass a perfect stand-in for all lawns and the sceneries are carved out as if take
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