“I love this piece? by Kapil Balkaran ... This work highlights the threats that come with consummerism, in a contemporay ironic key, inspired by street art.
Features:
- Category : Painting
- Medium : Acrylic
- Size : 24 x 24 in
- Style : Pop Art
This work highlights the threats that come with consummerism, in a contemporay ironic key, inspired by street art.
Features:
- Category : Painting
- Medium : Acrylic
- Size : 24 x 24 in
- Style : Pop Art
Date and place of birth: October 22, 1971, Constantza, Romania.
Lecturer in European Art History, Romanian Art History, and Painting Techniques at Ovidius University of Constantza, Department of Visual Arts.
Member of Romanian Fine Artists Association.
I consider my paintings to be on the edge between tradition and post-modernity: operating with the traditional means of painting, I often use two types of collage: in a postmodern key, the collage of citations from previous art, on the one hand, and the collage of various materials, on the other hand, but avoiding the excesses which sometimes characterize contemporary art.
One of the recurrent motifs of my work is the tower, seen from various perspectives, but with the same symbolic value: the artists secluded tower in a world which seems both uninhabited and inhospitable; a vertical bridge between sky and earth with religious undertones; a magic axiom of verticality.
The animals which sometimes populate the abstracted settings of the paintings, interpreted in an expressionistic key, find their source of inspiration in a domestic reality and talk to the anguishes of a defamiliarized world, in which the animalistic cry becomes the collective echo of parallel personal dramas. At the same time, I am interested in the repertory of current street art, children’s drawings, video games and manga, and advertising, which I visually “manipulate” in order to question what can or cannot be consumed, as well as who or what can become a commodity.
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