The Science of Magic

Artist: Fringe 

Title: The Science of Magic

Media: Oil on Canvas

Size: 150cm x 150cm 

Authentication certificate included 

ABOUT THIS WORK

The purpose of art is to wash the dust of daily life off our souls. Well, that’s what Picasso said at any rate. I guess he thought that what we do every day makes us dull and a little dirty.

Clearly, Picasso thought that our souls were tarnished from the drudgery of life, and that art could make the inner workings of our consciousness sparkle and shine. I must say I find some of Picasso’s early work a little depressing.

All those emaciated clowns and poverty stricken families going nowhere, hardly open the gates of joy, flooding one’s heart with desire for living. If I am anything, I’m probably a classical artist in the truest sense — more attracted to the battle between destiny and human choice than merely being a little artist lost in the woods.

I prefer to be adrift in the beautiful universe as, a kind of Major Tom, or as a Star Child forever open to possibilities, than a jaded someone looking for a way to polish my dirty old soul.

Otherwise I really avoid buying sweets made out of animal gelatine. There’s something nasty about eating hooves mixed with sugar and food colouring, and believing that it’s suddenly a brighter day. - FRINGE

FRINGE BIO 

Fringe, born in 1976, has used imagery from the mass media, digital media, and cartoons to movie culture, to produce paintings on canvas, figurative plastic and bronze sculptures filled with irony and satire.