Hyperrealistic Exhibit
WARNING: Contains images that some may deem NSFW
Shattered - A Self-Portrait, Jamie Salmon
2013, silicone, pigment, fiberglass, acrylic, hair, lifesize
This work presents the fragmenting shell of a middle-aged man's face and shoulders. His expression displays deep introspection combined with despair and shock. The man's turmoil is rendered as a snapshot, revealing a violent reaction slowed by the ballast of his life's experiences --- a linear progression of expectation, purpose, self-sacrifice, loss, and regret.
Reunion, Sam Jinks
2016, Silicone, pigment, resin, human hair
Woman and Child, Sam Jinks
2010, Silicone, pigment, resin, human hair
Still Life (Pietà), Sam Jinks
2007, Silicone, pigment, resin, human hair
Beauty and goodness, And Grief and pity, alive in the dead marble, Do not, as you do, weep so loudly, Lest before time he should awake form death, In spite of himself...’. Giovan Battista Strozzi il Vecchio's poem on Michelangelo’s Pietà at St Peter’s Basilica
This work alludes to the Western religious art 'Pietà', also called a ‘lamentation’, normally an image of the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Christ. Here, the artist's references the Buddhist meditation practice of visualising the decay of one’s own body as a means of bringing the mind to terms with the body’s inevitable end, contemplating the limits of humanism and secularism.
X-Statix, Jason de Graaf
2010, Acrylic on Canvas
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Eight, Jason de Graaf
2016, Acrylic on Canvas
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Parisian Picnic 3, Juan Francisco Casas
2016, Blue BIC pen on paper
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Self Portrait, Juan Francisco Casas
2010, Blue pen ink on paper
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