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A selection of sold paintings
Guitar solo extacy. Acrylic on canvas 120x100.
Photo: The artist
The fly. Acrylic on canvas 120 x 100
Photo: The artist
Drama under a red sky. Acrylic on canvas 100x150.
Photo: The artist
Melting toy under a yellow sky. Acrylic on canvas 80x120.
Photo: The artist
The duck. Acrylic on canvas, 100x150.
Photo: The artist
Death dance. Acrylic on canvas, 150x100.
Photo: The artist
Syria. Mixed media on canvas 120x100
Photo: Dani Kormazean
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SYRIA
How can one begin to understand the war in Syria? Wherein lies its absolute necessity? And tell me, what will ever outweigh all the suffering that the war has caused?
I cannot give an answer to these questions. Nonetheless, I don’t want to understand what is impossible to understand. That is what is recurrent throughout our history: The war with ragged bodies and infinite pain.
The ambition is to make understandable that there is evil in art. Examples are Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, Fredrik Reuterswärds Non Violence and Martha Roslers PHOTO OP.
This abstract painting is my attempt to portray the anger and sadness that I feel concerning the butchering in Syria. A butchering that always happens in the service of the supposedly good. In other words: One ought to always be suspicious – on one’s guard – against those that claim that they represent “the good”.
Melker Garay
November 2016
Acrylic on canvas 100 x 120
Photo: Eva Lindblad
Acrylic on canvas 100 x 15
Photo: Eva Lindblad
Video art » by Jonas Niklasson
La décoration suspecte. Acrylic on canvas 100 x 150
Photo: Eva Lindblad
Video art » by Jonas Niklasson
The parrot. Acrylic on canvas 150 x 100
Photo: Dani Kormazean