£900
Artist: Magnus Gjoen
Medium: Digital Print
Created: 2016
Style: Conceptual
H 70 cm, W 57 cm
Limited Edition Print, 1 of 25
Bought from an auction, this 18th-century oil painting sees Gjoen reinterpret mystery to show his strength in the vibrancy of colours that pop on the canvas. Featuring: maroon, azure blue and a hint of aubergine, Gjoen’s mastery of historic Clair-obscure technique is admirable. The painting plays with the beauty of darkness contrast between the darkened flowers, and gold leaf highlighted butterflies, the snail, the wasp and insects.
Magnus Gjoen is a London-born artist with an impressive fashion background, having studied fashion design in London and Milan and having worked for Vivienne Westwood amongst others. Gjoen takes inspiration from street and pop art fusing it with fine art, to question beliefs about religion, war beauty, destruction and art. His art is simultaneously at once uplifting and damning; a salvation for a godless generation. Updating old masterpieces and presenting them in a new way has always been Gjoen’s prerogative, where he expertly manages the balance between old and contemporary.
