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Rudolf KosowIrrésistible (cupcake rasberry lady dessert americana vintage surreal painting)2024
2024
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A decadent chocolate cupcake, crowned with pink frosting, glossy ganache, and a ripe raspberry, sits against a textured, cool-toned blue background. However, a housefly perched atop the fruit disrupts its tempting perfection, injecting unease into this hyperrealistic yet surreal composition. The meticulous rendering of textures—from the moist cake to the insect’s delicate wings—emphasizes contrasts between desire and decay. The pastel frosting and rich browns evoke indulgence, while the fly introduces contamination, hinting at themes of fleeting pleasure, deception, and the duality of attraction and repulsion. Irresistible plays with visual tension, drawing viewers into a world where temptation meets its inevitable flaw, encouraging deeper reflection on the nature of excess and the hidden imperfections beneath idealized beauty.
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- Creator:Rudolf Kosow (1972, German, Kazakhstani)
- Creation Year:2024
- Dimensions:Height: 59.06 in (150 cm)Width: 47.25 in (120 cm)Depth: 0.99 in (2.5 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Quebec, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU907116296012
Rudolf Kosow
Like images from a dream, Rudolf Kosow’s Surrealist figurative and still-life paintings and drawings conjure into reality otherworldly and absurdist scenes.
Kosow was born in 1972 in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. From 1994 to 2000, he studied painting at the city’s State Academy of Fine Arts.
Now based in Germany, he divides his time between Stuttgart and the town of Laichingen. He creates oil paintings based on three subjects: humans, animals and landscapes. He invites the viewer to interpret each work’s enigmatic message. For instance, in Contact, an astronaut is seemingly unaware of a colossal cat’s peering eye. In Missing Pieces, Kosow depicts a couple considering the whereabouts of slices taken from a giant Black Forest cake.
Kosow also explores the nature of human relationships in his portraits, such as Couple and Discord. Capture features a large-scale image of a sleeping girl juxtaposed with a miniature soldier standing guard.
“I try to paint things as realistically and as close as possible to enhance the real impression,” Kosow says in his artist’s statement. Although the imagery in his paintings and figurative drawings can be strange and somewhat unsettling, Kosow’s unique interplay of light and shadow creates a sense of “calm, harmony and peace.”
Kosow has exhibited across Germany and France. His works are sought by collectors of 21st-century Surrealist art.
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