Ivan Seal
a thing bells silence behind the fulfilled skull, 2020
Perspex cube, oil paint on canvas, plastic
20x20x20cm
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For Cure3, a thing bells silence behind the fulfilled skull, may be small in scale but both title and subject are psychologically charged. Seal references René Magritte´s ‘Ceci est un...
For Cure3, a thing bells silence behind the fulfilled skull, may be small in scale but both title and subject are psychologically charged. Seal references René Magritte´s ‘Ceci est un Morceau de Fromage’ that depicts a small framed painting of a slice of cheese set on a stand at an angle within a glass dome that would normally contain cheese. In a post-COVID world, one cannot help but think that the morsel of face conserved in the cube is the part of us that is now hidden from view: generalised, silenced, protected and preserved.