Mixed media on canva: brown coal, raw clay, yellow colored raw kaolin, gravel, natural charcoal, acrylic
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ABOUT THE WORK
Material: brown coal, raw clay, yellow colored raw kaolin
This is one of the works from the cycle "Anthropocene". In this cycle I deal with humanity's ability to transform... Read More
This is
one of the works from the cycle "Anthropocene". In this cycle I deal with humanity's ability to
transform large landscape units for our own needs using modern technological
processes. Often without regard to the possible consequences. The
transformation of the landscape then changes not only its external appearance,
but ultimately also the behavior of the flora and fauna, which is either
completely destroyed or partially adapts within large landscape areas. This
change affects both biological and geological processes not only in a given
location, but on the entire planet. And this has a negative
impact on human society. Some paintings from the “Anthropocene” cycle are
created using a combined technique, in which I bring characteristic materials
from the depicted location (coal, local deposits, pigments, etc.), which I
incorporate into the painting along with other materials such as synthetic
asphalt, ash, coffee and natural pigments. The resulting painting
is then partly made up of materials from the given area, which help to complete
the authenticity of the painting.
The painting depicts the
ČSA brown coal surface mine near the town of Most. It is
one of the surface mines of the North Bohemian coal basin, which is located in
the foothills of the Ore Mountains in the Czech Republic. The
painting is created by applying and gluing variously coarse fractions of brown
coal and clay that I collected in this coal mine. I
supplemented these natural pigments with yellow kaolin pigment and gravel from
the kaolin mine in Horní Bříza. Some details were added using natural carbon and
acrylic. The lake is created with synthetic asphalt and
crushed coal. All materials are applied or glued to raw linen
canvas glued to a hardboard.