Antony Micallef

The Union of Animals

€1,500

Edition of 3080.0 (H) × 80.5 (W) cmHand-finished

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Antony Micallef offers a darkly seductive vision of a still life in The Union of Animals.

Micallef took three years to complete the original painting, building up each layer of heavy impasto slowly. Fields of rich colour are framed by exposed canvas, drawing the eye to the centre of an explosive, dripping union of forms. Each print is hand-finished in glossy black oil paint – evoking the highly textured surface of Micallef’s original paintings.

“I see The Union of Animals as something of a forced mutation, created by us in the image of our ideal – mixing motifs of perceived beauty within art and vanities.”

Framing

Prints can be ordered float-mounted in a matte black wooden frame, fitted with UV plexiglass for protection.

Medium

25-colour silkscreen print with matte and spot UV gloss varnishes on 500gsm Radiant White Somerset Satin Paper – hand-finished in Ivory Black oil paint.

Certificate of Authenticity

Arrives with a certificate of authenticity.

Finishing

Individually signed and dated by the artist in the lower right corner.

Release date

October 11, 2022

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Behind the scenes

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Portrait of Antony Micallef in his studio

Antony Micallef4 collaborationsAntony Micallef isn’t constrained by the boundaries of sculpture and painting. Instead, he uses thick impasto – the process of layering on paint so it stands out from a surface – to create his 3D pieces. He also pushes this process to the extremes – scraping, twisting and ‘excavating’ the paint. Further texture is added by recycling dried paint from his palette and studio walls. The resulting pieces are distorted, charged and raw. This application is in sharp contract with the flat backgrounds of many of his paintings. Each one uses glazing techniques synonymous with the Renaissance artists like Rembrandt, and can often take weeks to perfect.

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