Modern Surrealism: Ray Caesar and Wolfgang Stiller
Caesar is known in the fine art world as the grandfather of digital art Caesars works are partly inspired by the Dutch and Flemish masters Vermeer and Jan van Eyck, as well as 18thcentury painter Gainsborough and French Rococo artists Watteau and Boucher.
He is also heavily inspired by Japanese culture 鈥� this stems partly from the influence of his Japanese wife Jane and her family who introduced Caesar to writers Yukio Mishima and Jun鈥檌chiro Tanizaki. Both writers have a distinctive Japanese aesthetic exploring and questioning Japan鈥檚 continual slide toward Western-influenced modernization and associated loss of Japanese tradition. Some of Tanizaki鈥檚 works present shockingly sexual and destructive erotic obsessions; others subtly portray the dynamics of family life. The femme fatale is a theme repeated in many of Tanizaki鈥檚 work. Another theme is the samurai ethic of balancing the cultivation of beauty and discipline by the way of the sword 鈥� simultaneously valuing honor, dignity and serenity 鈥� life lived as Art. Themes found also in Rays work.
Caesar鈥檚 works in turn are creations from his life memories and events. His visual diaries captivate us and repel us, yet we always ache for more. And like a diary, once we put pen to paper the words have soothing effect and gives the artists an inner calm that is shared.
German artist Wolfgang Stiller鈥檚 sculptural installations are innovative, very direct and intelligent.
Stiller who has had more than 30 solo exhibitions internationally including Greece, Italy, USA, Japan and Czech Republic, presents one of his finest art installations called Matchstick Men. The installation consists of several larger than life half burnt matchsticks which represent people suffering from a work burnout. Through his installation, Stiller aims at highlighting the most common issue amongst the working class professionals in the modern day society 鈥� Burnout syndrome. The installation illustrates the harsh impact of the syndrome on human life and how this state of vital exhaustion can create a permanent damage to the physical and mental well being. Simply fantastic!
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Caesar is known in the fine art world as the grandfather of digital art Caesars works are partly inspired by the Dutch and Flemish masters Vermeer and Jan van Eyck, as well as 18thcentury painter Gainsborough and French Rococo artists Watteau and Boucher.
He is also heavily inspired by Japanese culture 鈥� this stems partly from the influence of his Japanese wife Jane and her family who introduced Caesar to writers Yukio Mishima and Jun鈥檌chiro Tanizaki. Both writers have a distinctive Japanese aesthetic exploring and questioning Japan鈥檚 continual slide toward Western-influenced modernization and associated loss of Japanese tradition. Some of Tanizaki鈥檚 works present shockingly sexual and destructive erotic obsessions; others subtly portray the dynamics of family life. The femme fatale is a theme repeated in many of Tanizaki鈥檚 work. Another theme is the samurai ethic of balancing the cultivation of beauty and discipline by the way of the sword 鈥� simultaneously valuing honor, dignity and serenity 鈥� life lived as Art. Themes found also in Rays work.
Caesar鈥檚 works in turn are creations from his life memories and events. His visual diaries captivate us and repel us, yet we always ache for more. And like a diary, once we put pen to paper the words have soothing effect and gives the artists an inner calm that is shared.
German artist Wolfgang Stiller鈥檚 sculptural installations are innovative, very direct and intelligent.
Stiller who has had more than 30 solo exhibitions internationally including Greece, Italy, USA, Japan and Czech Republic, presents one of his finest art installations called Matchstick Men. The installation consists of several larger than life half burnt matchsticks which represent people suffering from a work burnout. Through his installation, Stiller aims at highlighting the most common issue amongst the working class professionals in the modern day society 鈥� Burnout syndrome. The installation illustrates the harsh impact of the syndrome on human life and how this state of vital exhaustion can create a permanent damage to the physical and mental well being. Simply fantastic!
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