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Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 55.1 W x 78.7 H x 1.6 D in
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Holy Shit How many times has humanity faced a spiritual and moral crisis? How often has our belief in kindness, love, and justice been crashed by the corporate interest, pure greed, and human exploitation? Our world is filled with violence and pain. People of the 21st century has failed to suppress the mentality of the Dark Ages when suffering was a cardinal virtue. The series by Syuzanna Kamara encourages us to show compassion. The artist offers us to throw away anachronistic religious conventions and social tyranny, open our eyes and see things as they really are. Love thy neighbor… Why have these simple words transformed and resulted in demeaning, violence, and cruelty, where love brings blind obedience and fear and silence provides a chance to be a part of a corporation? What are you willing to sacrifice on the altar of your blind faith? Your body, your soul or your life… Suffering is the perfect currency easily converted into gold coins. The blind faith makes you a marionette because the crown of thorns is not a ticket to heaven but a marketing hook. Do they want your soul? They want your body! You’d say, the painting is anticlerical, we say, it’s advocating for freedom. “Martyr” is about the world where evil has won, though it’s hiding behind the mask of corporate good. The church is a mediator between a man and God, but we all know how much interest the mediators charge. That is why the red halo is placed in the center of the composition as an allegory of the worldly matters and violence. The dark figure is pictured as a monolith with the void behind. The words of the prayer are vague and obscure. Why understand its sense when you are just a puppet for the people in power? Who needs sincerity and spiritual purity when the only thing that matters is your body? The roses symbolize the sin and passion. The floral wreath on the young man’s thighs represents the hypocrisy and lies. Syuzanna Kamara is not the first to use art for exposing social problems. Her notable predecessors, Hieronymus Bosch, Francisco Goya, Vasily Perov, not only were the great painters but changed the public attitude towards the critical issues of their time. Out time and our society need a shake-up here and now.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:55.1 W x 78.7 H x 1.6 D in
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Guinean and New York based Artist Syuzanna Kamara is one of the most promising artists of her generation. Raised in Guinea and in Moscow (Russia) Syuzanna is a graduate of Moscow state Surikov Art Institute and Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Industrial and Applied Arts (top 3 ranked art academies in the country). As a graduate of the best Russian art schools, Syuzanna is a follower of traditional Russian art school that certainly is reflected in her works. Along with that, Syuzanna brings drops of modernity in her paintings, creating an absolutely unique and distinctive style. In her artwork Ms.Kamara skilfully combines boldness, uniqueness and eccentricity of Pop Art movement, traditions of Classicism as well as brilliantly expressing her inner world, letting it come alive through the strokes of brushes and the texture of paint. Her artwork is full of depiction of reality, vitality, raw and exposed feelings, and is daringly imaginative. In her work, Syuzanna seeks to achieve the simple forms and textures inspired by the human body, transmission of emotions with the texture of the skin and water, ice and fabrics, portraying it as the three-dimensional projection as well as two-dimensional, flat decorative. Ms. Kamara has established herself as one of the most gifted and innovative artists of her generation. Her works are presented by multiple Art Galleries in Moscow, Saint-Petersburg.
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