'Pink Champagne' Soren Nellemann

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By Signature Art Prize 2022
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Dimensions (HxWxD):

140 × 200 × 4 cm

Materials:

Oil, acrylic and pen on canvas

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Painting

Large
2019
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“pink champagne” – a giant work 140x200cm (oil, acrylic and pen, 2019) is inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights” (c. 1503). Upon immediate viewing of ‘pink champagne’ despite the festive title it appears as a clear imaginary of Hell on earth with the war ravaged landscape and smoke and pink pig with a blank (dead?) stare. However, upon closer view several other symbols and images emerges from the floating refugees, the bathing tourists, the Pepsi and McDonalds’ signs and persistence of major brands, to the popcorn (entertainment), yellow trucks entering the vagina of the baby creature symbolizing the future in peril, to the sparkling clean skulls next to the Ajax bottle symbolizing the ability to clean-up and forget, to the monkey nursing a human baby questioning our state of humanity today and that in reality we have abandoned our kids and future generation leaving it to Mother Nature to fix (symbolized by the primate). Just maybe this is not Hell, but a reflection of our times? Aleppo and now Ukraine. It calls for action. After all as an ironic statement "a glass of champagne and popcorn may make things right again", but it doesn't. The perspective is one of the viewer staring into a landscape as a participating observer.

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