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Mykola Matsenko — Love to a coffin (Polyptych)
Mykola Matsenko

Love to a coffin (Polyptych)

A haunting and visceral polyptych by Mykola Matsenko, rendered in bold acrylics and stark marker lines on canvas, explores the paradox of devotion intertwined with mortality. The multi-panel composition fragments and repeats imagery to evoke a ritualistic, almost obsessive attachment to the finality of death. Matsenko's raw, gestural technique amplifies the tension between tenderness and darkness, creating an unsettling meditation on love's most extreme surrender.

Medium
acrylic, marker on canvas

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Contemporary Art Day Sale

October 17, 2013

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Mykola Matsenko, Love to a coffin (Polyptych)

A haunting and visceral polyptych by Mykola Matsenko, rendered in bold acrylics and stark marker lines on canvas, explores the paradox of devotion intertwined with mortality. The multi-panel composition fragments and repeats imagery to evoke a ritualistic, almost obsessive attachment to the finality of death. Matsenko's raw, gestural technique amplifies the tension between tenderness and darkness, creating an unsettling meditation on love's most extreme surrender.

Medium
acrylic, marker on canvas
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Dark, Symbolic, Acrylic On Canvas, Conceptual, Mixed Media, Ukrainian, Melancholic, Death, Polyptych, Contemporary

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