Zarina Keyani

'Light', oil on paper, 26.5x20x0.1cm

Sublime

'Inner Land I'

oil on board40x40x1.5cm

'Inner Land II'

oil on board40x40x1.5cm

'Inner Land III'

oil on board40x40x1.5cm

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'Sublime Land'

oil on canvas100x100x3.5cm(private collection)

'Existential Crisis

oil on canvas100x100x3.5cm(private collection)

The Sublime Paintings - Artist Statement

What is sublime in a contemporary sense? Beauty, wow, fear or is it something more or a combination? Is it the sheer unpredictable nature of the human state today?

The paintings are a cognitive and emotional response to the sublime nature of the now from the perspective of the artist. Each painting represents a sublime moment. A moment of understanding and realisation. Seemingly chaotic and in flux, the paintings are landscapes that represent infinity, and that there is more out there than we can see or even understand.

'Pohjola'

oil on canvas81x100x3.5cm(private collection)

'Sun'

oil on canvas20x26x3.5cm

The work draws on elements of the 18th century sublime oil painting traditions of enigma and beauty to question the contemporary sublime. Arguably individual and only apparent when viewed or experienced, is it what we subconciously seek when we explore and travel, do something different, or even go about our lives. Is it the ultimate truth, but that is incomprehensible?

Many things inspire moments of understanding and we as a people know and understand more than we ever did, but looking at the nature of the world today, it seems we still don’t know or understand enough.

Zarina Keyani

Jan 2019