Angelos Merges


"Tiara", oil on canvas, 30 x 40cm, 2020




'Camo II', oil on canvas, 30 x 40cm, 2020



Untitled, oil on canvas, 30 x 30cm, 2020




"Brighter than a thousand suns", oil on canvas, 50 x 50cm, 2019




"Festival of Beauty", oil on canvas, 60 x 60cm, 2020






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("On my latest body of work I’ve been creating paintings of various sizes characterized by their momentary feeling and their ambiguous subjects. My paintings often refer to cultural clichés, posing questions that concern modern western binds referring to liberal concepts. Due to my interest in concealed aspects of modern man, I deal with issues such as herd mentality, the gap between initiation and proselytism and the etiquette beneath today’s political movements. My practice starts by gathering digital images from various sources. Snapshots from amateur videos, stills from the News and worldwide documentaries are the most common material. By observing praxes from different cultures, I focus on the relation between reason and instinct, in an attempt to distinguish the intertemporal qualities of the human psyche. The depicted scenes seem to be in the middle of narration urging the viewer to address a plot based on his own mythology. The context is either enigmatic or reminds us of a collective action or of archetypal rituals. In either occasion pictures foster some sort of inner suspense, a mute violence in advance of a “coming storm”. By creating a series of allegories on human nature, my artwork purposes not just to visualize an existential agony but to portray modern man’s mentality." Angelos Merges)