Art
#animals
#birds
#El Gato Chimney
#gouache
#painting
#surreal
#watercolor
Strips of vibrantly patterned materials, entwined purple thread, and on a regular basis objects floating within the sky are just a few of the recurring motifs inside El Gato Chimney’s works. The Milan-based artist has a surreal imaginative and prescient tinged with metaphysics, spirituality, and delusion that he layers into scenes replete with sudden particulars: clusters of birdhouses and floral gildings envelop a fowl’s higher physique like a garment, a forlorn mule clutches a gold staph whereas yellow frogs climb its torso and legs, and a indifferent arm emerges from a cloud greedy an indignant snake. Each bit marries the pure world with the occult and magical, firmly inserting recognizable topics and objects inside the supernatural realm.
Working in vivid watercolor and gouache, El Gato Chimney is drawn to animal symbolism throughout people traditions and cultures, whether or not or not it’s European mountain areas, the Himalayas, or areas in Japan. “It’s unbelievable to find what number of similarities there are between these three areas, particularly in relation to animals and their symbolism,” he says. “I take advantage of birds greater than different animals as a result of birds are the animals with extra symbolism and magic energy for nearly all cultures.”
El Gato Chimney at present has works included within the group exhibition Birds Rising at Brassworks Gallery in Portland, with upcoming exhibits deliberate at Visions West Contemporary in Bozeman and Denver and at Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea in Milan. Discover extra of the artist’s work on his site and Instagram.
#animals
#birds
#El Gato Chimney
#gouache
#painting
#surreal
#watercolor
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