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Waiting For the Lions

Marcel van Beek August 2, 2026 No Comments

“Waiting for the Lions” extends my series “Silent Places” into an artificial rock landscape, a space seemingly suspended outside time. The white, outstretched bodies of the rabbits lie across the concrete floor like islands of snow.

Die Toteninsel (The Isle of the Dead)

Marcel van Beek August 2, 2026 No Comments

In „The Isle of the Dead“, the artist offers a compelling contemporary reimagining of Böcklin’s iconic motif. Enlarged in scale, the composition draws the viewer head-on into the scene, while the heightened palette sets warm,

Wasting Sickness after Freedom’s Loss

Marcel van Beek August 1, 2026 No Comments

This painting from the series Transitions fixes the instant in which autonomy gives way: plague doctors stand ready—unyielding rather than hostile—whose glass eyes and beaked masks confer patienthood before the bed is reached.

Self-portrait

Ulisses Granados August 1, 2026 No Comments

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Portae Arcanae

Marcel van Beek July 31, 2026 No Comments

Portae Arcanae is an expansive photographic journey through hidden gateways, built portals, natural thresholds and fragile membranes between the visible world and the Otherworld. Across 130 works, Marcel van Beek transforms doors,

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After silence

Szabolcs Saigi July 30, 2026 No Comments

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The Maw

Szabolcs Saigi July 29, 2026 No Comments

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Life Drained

Szabolcs Saigi July 29, 2026 No Comments

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The Hanged Man

Matěj Pekárna July 29, 2026 No Comments

An original, raw mixed-media artwork on heavy paper (56 × 76 cm). The Hanged man is a visceral exploration of systemic confinement and subconscious weight.
At the core of the composition hangs a severely damaged torso—devoid of limbs and facial features—trapped within a rigid network of ten binding ropes.

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The Mouths Remained

Sara Luczynski July 27, 2026 No Comments

Two figures dissolve into a scarred, mineral surface where identities disappear, but the mouths remain. Layers of acrylic, glue, salt and fire evoke memory, absence and the traces left by human presence.

Ich trage mein Herz

Jorge Humberto Tapia Perez July 27, 2026 No Comments

A winged figure exists in a state between departure and stillness. The body hovers, yet it does not ascend—held within a moment of decision. A chain keeps the figure connected to its heart,

Abatimiento

Jorge Humberto Tapia Perez July 27, 2026 No Comments

Abatimiento explores a moment of profound exhaustion—when effort has been sustained for too long and the structures that once provided meaning begin to collapse. The figure embodies a state of inner depletion,

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