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Steve Sangapore"Contenta Absentis", contemporary, oil, blue, icon, mirror, mixed media2022
2022
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Steve Sangapore’s “Contenta Absentis” is a 24 x 18 x 1 inch oil and 24k gold leaf painting mounted on a reflective mirror. The painting is housed in an ornate gold wood frame measuring 30 x 24 x 2 inch. This painting is from Sangapore's Modern Icon series and signed at bottom right.
As a large percentage of the modern, global population continues its slow migration away from traditional religious beliefs, the important characters of grand religious narratives begin to lose their identities. While the viewer can clearly recognize the figure as Jesus Christ of Christian faith, their facial features have been wiped away, representing a loss of identity. The figure is mounted upon a reflective mirror background – an engaging and interactive device that places the viewer’s likeness within the painting itself.
In the age of social media, spirituality and the religious experience are often neglected by the will toward violent narcissism, self-involvement, and the quest for social approval of one’s synthetic digital facade. In this work, the viewer similarly becomes preoccupied with themself in the mirror background as they struggle to keep their attention toward the figures in focus who are becoming less and less recognizable.
The function of the mirror in this context can be considered a kind of performance art. By demonstrating the superficial urge of self-fascination, the viewer unwittingly completes the very message of the painting.
Steve Sangapore is a contemporary oil painter and mixed media sculptor. Using vastly different stylistic approaches of composition, medium and structure throughout various series, his work can be described at once as aesthetically traditional and conceptually contemporary. His work is intellectually exploratory with a gravitation toward religion, science and the human condition. Steve Sangapore’s work has been exhibited in galleries and leading art fairs nationally and has been included in a variety of publications including Art Business News and The Boston Globe. Sangapore is represented by Fountain Street Gallery in Boston, MA.
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- Creation Year:2022
- Dimensions:Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Natick, MA
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