Galatea
- Year
- 2023
- Medium
- Mixed media on stretched canvas
- Dimensions
- 110 × 110 cm
- Framing
- Framing available upon request (not included in the price)
- Status
- Placed
- Category
- Paintings
Galatea takes its title from the myth of Pygmalion: an image brought to life through the intensity of its maker’s attention. The work approaches that story through reflection rather than narration.
Its mirrored passages receive light, colour and fragments of the surrounding room. The painting therefore cannot be encountered as a self-contained image; each installation and every position of the viewer alters what becomes visible. Reflection introduces the observer into the work while simultaneously withholding a stable view.
In this shifting relation, the image appears to acquire an energy beyond its painted surface. Galatea does not illustrate animation, but stages the conditions under which an artwork seems to return the gaze directed toward it.
Acquired directly from the studio. Each work is accompanied by a signed certificate of authenticity and recorded in the studio archive.
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Collector Notes
This artwork is accompanied by a signed certificate of authenticity from Atelier Marlon Nikolai.
A condition report and additional acquisition details are available on request.