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Michiel Ceulers — Corpse After Negating Visual Art Strategies (C.A.N.V.A.S.)
Michiel Ceulers

Corpse After Negating Visual Art Strategies (C.A.N.V.A.S.)

A deteriorating figure lies prostrate across the canvas, its form rendered in a visceral interplay of traditional oil paint and raw spray paint that seems to simultaneously construct and destroy the image. Ceulers stages a symbolic death of painting itself, with the acronym C.A.N.V.A.S. framing the work as both subject and executioner. The artist's hand-made cardboard frame reinforces the piece's interrogation of institutional value and art-world convention, positioning the work defiantly outside the boundaries of classical presentation.

Medium
oil, spray paint on linen, in artist's cardboard frame

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Under the Influence

March 4, 2015

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Michiel Ceulers, Corpse After Negating Visual Art Strategies (C.A.N.V.A.S.)

A deteriorating figure lies prostrate across the canvas, its form rendered in a visceral interplay of traditional oil paint and raw spray paint that seems to simultaneously construct and destroy the image. Ceulers stages a symbolic death of painting itself, with the acronym C.A.N.V.A.S. framing the work as both subject and executioner. The artist's hand-made cardboard frame reinforces the piece's interrogation of institutional value and art-world convention, positioning the work defiantly outside the boundaries of classical presentation.

Medium
oil, spray paint on linen, in artist's cardboard frame
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Institutional Critique, Male Artist, Linen Support, Mixed Media, Flemish Artist, Conceptual Art, Emerging Artist, Oil And Spray Paint, Provocative Tone, Appropriation Art, Contemporary Painting, Contemporary Art, Monochromatic, Mixed Media Painting, Found Frame, Meta-Art, Text-Based Art, Post-Internet Art

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