• Oil Painting, bright interior with goldfish and cat. One point perspective giving a sense of depth.
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Mario Cioni

The Drawing Room

$3,950.00 AUD
$3,950.00 AUD
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Oil on Canvas, 122 cm wide x 92 cm high x 3.5 cm deep.

One of the “The Sleep of Reason” series, a group of paintings designed to beguile the viewer into a make-believe dream world of pure fantasy. A sensual experience whereby one is encouraged to let the mind wander, speculate and invent. To absorb the rich visual triggers in each painting. There is a subtle tension in each room. A captured moment in time, a fleeting encounter, a chance meeting. What is the nature of the relationships between the protagonists? Are we part of the cat’s dream or that of the fish? Why a cat? Why a fish? The setting for these encounters is Powderham Castle in Devon England. Each of the paintings in the series has 13 to 14 distinct layers from the initial drawing through to the final glazes. The traces of each layer adds to the richness of the surface. Your eye is drawn into the room, you are encouraged to float with the fish and move around the room. Yet, at the same time the fish appear to pop off the surface of the painting and inhabit our space.

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