Artsted Catalogue 2022
The “99 Future Blue-Chip artists” is a project that arose from the urgent need within the contemporary art market to find ways to support a new generation of up-and-coming artists, while bringing their vision to a wider audience of collectors and art lovers. For its first-ever edition, “99 Future Blue-Chip Artists” took the form of a printed and curated hardcover edition, featuring artists from all around the globe working across a plethora of media, addressing unique and challenging concepts.
The “99 Future Blue-Chip artists” is a project that arose from the urgent need within the contemporary art market to find ways to support a new generation of up-and-coming artists, while bringing their vision to a wider audience of collectors and art lovers. For its first-ever edition, “99 Future Blue-Chip Artists” took the form of a printed and curated hardcover edition, featuring artists from all around the globe working across a plethora of media, addressing unique and challenging concepts.
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99 Future Blue-Chip Artists.
#71
OH DE LAVAL
Polish-Thai artist Oh de Laval’s vibrant, faux-naïf figurative
paintings are beautiful yet macabre, unsettling yet humorous,
and deviant yet honest. Among the varied inspirations
for her work are industrial design (which she studied
for two years), Francis Bacon’s hedonistic lifestyle, and
sociologist Emile Durkheim’s theory that deviance is an
integral part of society. Her characters reside within lush
landscapes and interiors reminiscent of a Rococo-esque
frivolity, yet the women are often bare-chested, painted in
garish pinks and reds, and the men have sardonic grins
plastered onto their melting faces. Paintings that may appear
romantic from afar take on an unsettling or playful
edge as she explores 21st-century eroticism.
"The eroticism in my paintings is as much about sexual
desire as lust, wrath, violence, despair, and happiness”.
—
Artwork: ‘To Feel Alive‘, signed 'ohdelaval' (lower right);
numbered '3/69' (lower left), giclee artist print with semi-gloss
overlay, image: 69 x 51.8 cm. (27 1/5 x 20 2/5 in.).
Executed in 2020, edition 3/69.
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