Avarice

Name: Avarice
Brand: Laurette de Jager
SKU: 81017990008
Price: 760.00 USD
Availability: InStock

W 100.00cm x H 75.00cm x D 3.00cm

USD $760.00

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About this Avarice

Detail

Medium

Painting （Oil painting）

Edition

Original Artwork

Year

2016

Sign

Artists' signature on the front of the canvas

Frame

Framed

#Painting #Oil painting #Surrealism #Human body

Description

In Avarice the urban decay evident in the
large Soviet style building and the sprawled human hybrid figure in the foreground with its
corpse-like pallor all allude to physical decay in its corporal and urban manifestations. This
also ambiguously alludes to the zombie metaphor for consumerism, which will be examined
in Chapter 4. Although the viewer might not immediately make sense of the hybrid figure as
a zombie, all the figures in these works are recognisable as not purely healthy human forms
and each figure bears a mark of the abject, which is intended to cause the viewer to question
the state of humanity as a whole.
About this artist

Laurette de Jager

South Africa

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Concept

Poetry of Decay: The decay evident in contemporary society does provide
rich soil for the growth of a dystopian zeitgeist. Thus, decay and its manifestations within the
social order, in both physical as well as psychological terms, provide a dynamic metaphor for
the aesthetic interpretation of the dystopian zeitgeist. I postulate that what is viewed as the
dystopian zeitgeist does not necessarily signal an apocalyptic end but is emblematic of the
fall of the liberal humanist system and the dawn of the new posthumanist age. Furthermore,
what is perceived as negative manifestations of the dystopian zeitgeist: crime, racism,
xenophobia etc. is, in fact, the reaction of humanity, driven by avarice at the end of the
humanist era and is therefore, in essence, a metaphorical kicking against the pricks.

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