Apocalips (2019)

Series by Thibaud Tchertchian

Apocalips signifies contemporary malaise rendered in acid colors. The classical composition reveals Renaissance staging, but with a polluted nature and destroyed monuments. The bodies of women resemble old, damaged statues, and on their faces one can read the face of a pop death. The colors are acid — like the last moments of an epicurean feast awaiting the inevitable.

The style of antique models symbolizes our democratic system with its Greek heritage, which is now collapsing, partly for having obscured nature in its race toward evolution. These paintings can be seen as the statues of a lost civilization, an image of the last moments of Pompeii — a hedonism covered by romantic nature, driven by winds, burned by fire, murdered by pollution.

These bodies are not classical nudes, but their opposite: infertile Venuses, Goddesses of the apocalypse, and still lifes.

Artworks (6)

  • Apocalips Silver (2019) — Mixed Media, 100 × 100 cm. Available.
  • Apocalips Red (2019) — Mixed Media, 100 × 100 cm. Available.
  • Apocalips Oil (2019) — Mixed Media, 80 × 100 cm. Available.
  • Apocalips Beach (2019) — Mixed Media, 120 × 150 cm. Available.
  • Apocalips Blue (2019) — Mixed Media, 160 × 120 cm. Available.
  • Apocalips Brown (2019) — Mixed Media, 100 × 100 cm. Available.