Fabrice Samyn
Oracle Logs
2021
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Copyright the artist; Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf; Photo Simon Vogel, Cologne
Oil on canvas
34 x 28 cm
A painting of blackened logs on a pedestal, seemingly taken from a fireplace once the fire has burnt out. Referencing Twilight’s Gaze, his series of six paintings depicting the burning of a wooden idol, Samyn implies that these logs too have a history, and perhaps still hold transcendent energy.
