a floral bouquet filled vase with jelly like flowers overflowing on a table

Christian Rex van Minnen

Parallax

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New and old collide in absurdist rewrites of still life traditions by Christian Rex van Minnen.

Parallax – van Minnen’s first print release in more than 10 years and first ever timed edition – is based on an oil on linen original, in which he employs Venetian painting techniques that predate him by several hundred years. The work’s title references the compositional logic underpinning its assemblage of foliage, gummy sweets and embryo.

Available to all, for 24 hours only, the collaboration fulfils van Minnen’s desire to offer a broader audience the opportunity to collect his work.

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Christian Rex van Minnen wearing glasses and a bright orange sweatshirt

Christian Rex van Minnen4 collaborationsFor Christian Rex van Minnen, painting is an introspective process. His surreal canvases channel the raw chaos of thoughts and emotions into elegantly rendered images. Using oil painting techniques inspired by Renaissance and Dutch masters, van Minnen depicts his subjects with a decadent level of detail. His subjects themselves are, however, far from sublime: deformed faces, garish still lifes and disturbingly contorted bodies. Meanwhile, brightly coloured additions such as rainbows, hearts and gummy sweets reflect the influences of contemporary Surrealist-Pop Art. By playfully clashing with their surroundings, these details add a sense of absurdist humour to his artworks. The results are laced with irony – at once hyper-realistic and nonsensical, beautiful and ugly, historic and contemporary.

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