Felix Dolah
Gelsomina
2019

About the Item

Signed and numbered 20/20 Silkscreen print on Somerset enhanced velvet fine art paper 330 gsm 29.7 x 42 cm Framed (matte black wooden frame, black mount, UV anti-reflective museum quality glass) Frame size 50.7 x 38.7 x 3 cm Felix Dolah (b.1988) is a self-taught artist who lives and works in Mainz, central Germany. Felix Dolah's drawings are monochrome: mixed on paper, water and charcoal giving birth to a series of portraits of individuals, alone or grouped, whose gender is sometimes difficult to define. Those long limbs loosed like spider-threads, form the originality of these people with deformed features and expressionless faces. The characters seem to emerge from a world in pain where social cohesion reigns supreme. Rehabilitating the importance of the social entity, Felix Dolah raises the communication as unique means of survival. At the heart of his work, there is a humanity that is disintegrating, in a desperate quest for identity. The landscape is nonexistent: only the human counts. The ghostly shadows that populate the universe of Felix Dolah look timeless: they are the part of ourselves that rambles in an in-between, the part which was transformed, camouflaged, destroyed. It is probably for this reason that Felix Dolah leaves fingerprints on some of his drawings, giving the work an organic, carnal dimension. In this way, he recomposes an identity which diluted with water, tends to fade. Who are these disembodied bodies? The last upheavals of a world frozen in its inhumanity. Felix Dolah’s work has charmed countless small and big, private and famous collectors around the world. He has participated in numerous exhibitions in Europe and worldwide including the UK, the US, Germany, Russia, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Singapore and Belgium.

Creator:

Felix Dolah (1988, German)

Creation Year:

2019

Dimensions:

Height: 16.54 in (42 cm)Width: 11.7 in (29.7 cm)

Medium:

Screen

Movement & Style:

Expressionist

Period:

2010-