Cycling in a Dream

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by diana savova

Acrylic on board

h: 30 w: 30 d: 2 (cms).

  • When the French art critic and writer Guillaume Apollinaire coined the term surrealism in March 1917, he would have hardly imagined that 100 years later artists would still find this style that calls for the juxtaposition of uncommon imagery as if in a dream, irresistibly pertinent. It was exactly in 2017 when I created Cycling in a Dream as part of a new lineage of works with surreal motifs, which now seem to strongly resonate with the strange surrealism of our global lockdown. The blurring of dream and reality becomes the symbol of our surreal culture suspended in quarantine, as much as the penny-farthing became a symbol of the late Victorian era. As we are facing the uncertainty of the post-COVID 19 world, so does the cyclist who is riding into something chaotic and unresolved ahead. It is this uncertainty that I captured through the accidental power of my signature ‘fluid acrylic pouring’ technique. I am fascinated by this rarely practised technique which brings a degree of painterly accidents, higher intensity and hyper-realistic moments beyond one’s artistic control.

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