Sugar Fever Dream
Exclusive to The Artling
Exclusive to The Artling
US$ 12,500
Overview
2020
Oil Paint, Oil on linen stretched on MDF board
Unique Work
Dimensions: 200cm (H) x 200cm (W) x 3cm (D) / 78.7" (H) x 78.7" (W) x 1.2" (D)
Diameter: 200cm / 78.7"
Note: Actual colours may vary due to photography & computer settings
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About the art
Artist statement
With an air of affirmative nihilism and a playful aesthetic of excess, Sugar Fever Dream is a counter vision to Western thought at the height of anthropocentrism. In a waking nightmare of interspecies revenge, this piece draws 17th century Still Life and Vanitas traditions into a Contemporary post-internet landscape. Employing Ecohorror tropes, Art Historical references, semiotic and autobiographical elements, Sugar Fever Dream is a Still Lifes that pulse with life. Nonhuman entities are protagonists embodied with agency, movement, menace and desire: from the skies of the heavens to the depths of the ocean floor.
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Artist profile
Karla Marchesi
Hometown: Brisbane
Based in: Berlin, Germany
Brisbane-born, Berlin-based artist Karla Marchesi employs the still life genre of the ‘impossible bouquet’ as a means through which to reflect upon socio-cultural anxieties of our age. Her paintings theatrically critique what it means to be human at this present moment under conditions of late capitalism and anthropocentrism, interweaving an …
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