REST

Title: REST
Year: 2008
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 80 x 100 cm, 32 x 40 in
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Provenance: Artist’s Studio, Switzerland
Authentication: This artwork is accompanied by a certificate from the artist, signature on the back

This painting is inspired by masterpiece Stalker by the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. It is an emblematic artwork treating the theme of The good and the Evil. Tarkovsky’s mysterious oeuvre taught me to see the screen as a painting that slowly unfolds. I have chosen to focus on the cinematographic works treating the theme of the good and the evil.  What is good? And what is evil? The answer emanating from the motion picture film remains ambiguous. The films referenced in the series are undeniably connected by the author’s intention to confuse the viewer and push him to find his own answers. The rhythm in these films reveals an inexplicable, multifaceted world transmitting an emotion I aspired to capture on canvas. I repeatedly watched these films with the sound off. I work with the film projected on a wall next to my canvas. The final painting consists of several superimposed images of the same scene.