Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 8

Nicolas Kennett
Lynx speak Nicolas Kennett 21st Century Bristish painting portrait expressionist

2011

About the Item

Oil paint on wood panel Signed on the back "Incanto" or the enchantment of shifting "Nicolas Kennett revisits the organic world through painted and sculpted matter. He oscillates between the dull surface of oil paint on raw wood panel which captures and retains the light and the shiny, sophisticated enamel covered sculptures. He conjures up visions of transformations, incarnations, and mysterious mutations. How does the human mind revisit animals and plants? Why is he venturing down this path? Each work is a shift, like a revelation to oneself, the embodiment of a spirituality, the materialization of a great diversity of interior journeys through the materials shaped by the hand of the artist. It is the enchantment of matter in itself : matte or shiny, harsh or smooth, intense or light, thick or barely perceptible, pasty or amply modelled, rugged or even absent ... seductive or repulsive, attractive or disturbing. It also leaves a large place for emptiness, ellipses, silence ... free of interpretation. What is he trying to convey? The artist plays on the diversity of media to serve the spirit which transforms the man and orients them to deliver their essence. What is the vital impetus that springs from this flower? What hint of humanity can be seen in the eyes of this seal? Nicolas Kennett invites us to explore our own imagination by strewing our path with clues, to consider our own projections in the face of revisited organic forms, to let operate the magic linked to the reinterpretation of animal, plant and organic life forms to better merge with them and finally perceive ourselves as a part of the whole. He projects our humanity onto the kingdom of the living in order to create an echo in each of us, in order to make us feel the life that exists in them and vibrate at their tempo, in order to recognize them as ourselves. It is an ode to life ... to nature and its emanations, to its magical and sacred dimensions, both trivial and brutal, literal and chilling, relentless and extraordinary, source of astonishment and fascination, hoping perhaps that we will know how to protect nature, and therefore also preserve ourselves ... " Claire Corcia, December 2021
  • Creator:
    Nicolas Kennett (1967, British)
  • Creation Year:
    2011
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 39.38 in (100 cm)Width: 23.63 in (60 cm)Depth: 1.97 in (5 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Paris, FR
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU103419483242

More From This Seller

View All
A priori Yankel Contemporary painting arbstract art collage blue character
By Jacques Yankel
Located in Paris, FR
Oil painting and collage on wood panel Unique work Hand-signed higher right by the artist
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Flight Nicolas Kennett 21st Century British painting fly character yellow black
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on wood panel Signed on the back
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Beyond Nicolas Kennett 21st Century British painting character skyscape black
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on wood panel Signed on the back
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Wacky felucca Julien Wolf Contemporary art painting expressionnist outsider
By Julien Wolf
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on canvas Hand-signed on the back by the artist “At first glance, we are invited to a colorful carnival. Everything is movement here! As if Julien Wolf had tried to captur...
Category

2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A small picodon ? Julien Wolf Contemporary Expressionist Painting
By Julien Wolf
Located in Paris, FR
Oil on canvas 2017 Signed Unique work Julien Wolf is a French painter born in 1981 in Strasbourg, France. In 2007, he graduated from the DNSEP Art section at the Strasbourg Decora...
Category

2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

What should I do with the ball ? Julien Wolf Contemporary Expressionist Painting
By Julien Wolf
Located in Paris, FR
Oil on canvas 2018 Signed Unique work Julien Wolf is a French painter born in 1981 in Strasbourg, France. In 2007, he graduated from the DNSEP Art section at the Strasbourg Decora...
Category

2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

You May Also Like

Margit
By Otto Tetjus Tugel
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a rare oil on panel by German artist Otto Tugel. Otto Tugel worked in Germany before settling in New York. This is an early oil on panel, signed in monogram, dated 1925.
Category

1920s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Portrait of a Woman
By Erich Waske
Located in Wien, 9
Deling with the work of Erich Waske today, one encounters first of all a number of reasons why this outstanding artist has fallen into such undeserved oblivion. In addition to the de...
Category

20th Century Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Portrait with Pearl Necklace
By Erich Waske
Located in Wien, 9
Deling with the work of Erich Waske today, one encounters first of all a number of reasons why this outstanding artist has fallen into such undeserved oblivion. In addition to the de...
Category

20th Century Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

St. Vincent Ferrer Preaching to the People of Salamanca
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Private Collection, New Jersey The present painting depicts Saint Vincent Ferrer preaching from a raised pulpit to a group of seven peopl...
Category

15th Century and Earlier Renaissance Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

"I Yam what I Yam" oil on wood panel Street Pop painting
Located in Southampton, NY
We are please to announce that we are now representing the Pop Art paintings of the artist Matt Straub. We at the gallery have been following his career a...
Category

2010s Street Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

The Workout, Ali Akhmedov , Churchill Boxing, Oil, American Artist, Figurative
By Dan Beck
Located in Houston, TX
The Workout is a painting of professional boxer Ali Akhmedov by American artist Dan Beck. This painting was don from a photograph by the premier boxing photog...
Category

2010s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Recently Viewed

View All