Paradise Lost
2001-11
Oil, acrylic, glitter, enamel and rhinestones on birch wood
300x900 cm
Detail
A paradise with blossoming cherry flowers, mountainous nightscape lit by full moon, voluptuous carnival intoxicated by colourful lotus flowers and glittering precious stones - and all this populated with hedonistic and vampire predators in a carnal inertia and mutual bloody carnage.
This is not a battle of Good and the Evil: this is nature's eternal, voracious, erotic and violate passing of the time.
The sense of a mesmerizing, glamorous luxury is increased with a special technique used in cloisonné: small pools of enamel and metallic paint delineated with a raised edge which is then finished in gold and filled with thousands of sparkling tiny rubies, emeralds and other precious stones - sometimes their value is far greater than what the works are sold for.
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