Menu
The New Contemporary Art Magazine

Christian Edler’s Self Portraits Show the Artist At Odds with Himself

Christian Edler's self-portraits hint at an inner conflict brewing within the artist's psyche. Edler uses his own likeness for surrealist visual experiments, painting himself with various mutations that explore the battles we have with ourselves. In one work, Edler's face multiplies over and over, creating a web of mouths, fingers, and eye sockets that seems bent on destroying itself. In another piece, he collapses face down in resignation, his face cracking like a ceramic vase. Other works are more hopeful, however, like the one where he cuts himself loose from puppet strings and heads towards a new destiny.

Christian Edler’s self-portraits hint at an inner conflict brewing within the artist’s psyche. Edler uses his own likeness for surrealist visual experiments, painting himself with various mutations that explore the battles we have with ourselves. In one work, Edler’s face multiplies over and over, creating a web of mouths, fingers, and eye sockets that seems bent on destroying itself. In another piece, he collapses face down in resignation, his face cracking like a ceramic vase. Other works are more hopeful, however, like the one where he cuts himself loose from puppet strings and heads towards a new destiny.

Meta
Share
Facebook
Reddit
Pinterest
Email
Related Articles
On June 28 graphic artist, designer and musician, Piet Parra will be opening a solo show at HVW8 in LA. Titled "Same Old Song," the exhibit shows new snapshots from his red, blue and pink world filled with curvaceous, naked women engaging in debauchery.
Kit Mizeres creates vibrant gouache and watercolor works packed with surreal elements and influences. An artist and illustrator "living on the road," both Mizeres and her work travels the country for shows and projects.
In Aryz's recent, enormous murals, the painter is able to emulate the loose traits of a pencil or crayon sketch. The effect is deceptively simple, with the artist's broad strokes and figurative decisions creating a kinetic and striking final product. The artist was previously featured here, showcasing a style that varies from his current approach.
With his dreamlike, ink-on-paper renderings of mystical rivers, mountains and forests, Cuban artist Rubén Fuentes aims to recapture the grandeur and power of nature at a time when our planet's ecosystems are in their most vulnerable state. Borrowing from the concepts and aesthetics of Chinese and Japanese shan-shui and sumi-e brush painting, Fuentes uses a combination of spontaneous and detail-oriented brush work to depict vast landscapes and overgrown structures in an attempt to "return to nature what has been taken away" by generations of human destruction.

Subscribe to the Hi-Fructose Mailing List