Bois d’argent
- Year
- 2020
- Medium
- Acrylic and oil pastel on stretched canvas
- Dimensions
- 160 × 200 cm
- Status
- Placed
- Category
- Paintings
Bois d’argent is dedicated to the figures produced and sustained by imagination. They are not illustrated as fixed characters. Instead, bodily and creature-like forms emerge from the meeting of colour, line and gesture, only to recede before they can be fully identified.
Deep blues and black passages create a nocturnal ground, while pale blue, yellow and white forms move across it with different degrees of clarity. The painting allows recognition to remain provisional: a face, limb or silhouette can appear for a moment and then return to abstraction.
The work understands fantasy not as an escape from reality, but as a continuing mode of perception. Figures encountered through stories, dreams and personal memory remain active across a lifetime, repeatedly taking on new form within the present.
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Collector Notes
This artwork is accompanied by a signed certificate of authenticity from Atelier Marlon Nikolai.
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