2 or 3 pieces

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Hi Guys! Your Club very cool idea! How many works can i send?

Guys:
I've made my submission!
3 works 3!! (by the moment)

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SKINNED PORTRAITS OF ERIK THURM

Construction - Destruction. References and creation. These are just some of the items of Contemporary Art, post-utopic, in its eternal quest for the point of no return, in between that limit of the iconoclast and the skills of bringing out its poiesis.


Therefore, with what we know as Art History, it has pointed out to various ways of production. Lonely creators; emerging groups - all kinds and types have always been there - from the underground culture to the highest elite. Recently, visual arts (especially in Brazil) gained strong outlines from economic influence, from powerful contacts and strategic associations or from enduring concepts.

Even so, within the universe of arts, what is left to be explored? The creative groundbreaking comes from the dark places in its own sense –from the more translucent radicalism, or else, without fascist mannerisms. And also we have to consider the ability of time and place observations.

This is the art of Erik Thurm. His works are a skinned portrait of this post-utopia, post-contemporary age, accepting its influences, which bring back far more complex manners of dealing with the visual, the plastic, to give a raw and crude answer to the readings of our place in History.

Strongly influenced by the names like Kurt Schwitters, Robert Rauschenberg and Dave McKean, Thurm valuates his own output, his own essence to reflect then in a number of forms through unique and selected works from these masters.


The using of Collage is fortified in this kind of production – diverse elements exposing our narcissistic and fragmented aspect of reality. The “self” created through random and fused pieces, as the vision of this information overloaded world which molds our own vanity and our own concepts, once made of wood, paper, fashion and the classical. Thurm becomes then the “narcissus of the myth”; but instead of superbly sneaking himself, he detaches his “self” to a frightening and uncovered making, not plowing himself into the lake but to the chaos of the modern world.

At sometimes, his dark and somber vision proposes a clear allusion to the demands of our era, where on the threshold of numberless compositions, we are all in the search of a reality to compose us. But which one is this reality? Everything is ethereal and smoked screened, almost a prism of realities. In this manner - picking and choosing the elements - Erik Thurm forges his works, de-constructing to rebuild. Demolishing to lift again and creating throughout confusion. Aiming at pictorial and platonic desires, but getting in return the unsteadiness of this post-utopia where all is allowed and still transforms the narcissus in assembled paper cut fragments (over an external leitmotiv) without individual control.

Danilo Corci, editor of Speculum Magazine (www.speculum.art.br)



About the artist:

Erik Thurm was born in October, 1974 in the city of Jundiaí, State of São Paulo, Brazil. He is Bachelor in Arts and lived in the United Kingdom and in Germany. Back in Brazil, the artist is now preparing himself for his first individual exhibition.

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Erik Muller Thurm

All the credits go to the artists of the deviations in our gallery !

Hi guys
keep on the great selection of works
(Mine not included of course)

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sweet gallery

Oh, I have! And I've already submitted my *application*, though I'm not sure if my art qualifies, but hey, here's to hoping!

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Thank you, it really helped.

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The real definition: [link]

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Good question, we don't really have a definition for what kinda ilustration the club accepts.
Take a look at our gallery, you'll find all kind of example back there. ^

May I ask what kind of images qualify under the club's definition of what an *Illustration* is?

*Curious*

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it's going well !

Merciiiii!

yay!

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psssssssssssst!!!!!!!!!!! its me....

hey there !

ahoy!