Untitled
Vincent Xeus
Oil on linen
60x48 Inches
Manhattan, U.S.
2022

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The painting Untitled is Xeus’s appropriation to Casper David Frederick’s Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, a romanticism masterpiece considered by art historians as the perfect example of ‘sublime’ art. The painting exhibits Xeus’s incredible sensibility and technical competence to achieve the balance between intuitional and authorial. The painting captures the spiritual sublime of what was externally and internally driving the artist’s painting process. Xeus started the painting by applying layers of dry pigments onto the canvas. He then proceeded to carve into the painting’s foundation, leaving various organic textural footprints. In the following years, Xeus slowly developed the painting to its current highly fluid and vibrant state. All together the painting presents through the surface a holistic transformation of observed history and current in an instant of self discovery. The ambiguous surface, dimensionalized by repeated tension and release, held some of the key questions in Xeus’s painting at the moment.