Drawing titled "Addiction spirituel…" by Almakan, Original Artwork, Ink

Addiction spirituelle (2020) Drawing by Almakan

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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Drawing, Ink / Graphite on Paper

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One of a kind (OOAK / Original Artwork)

One-of-a-kind works of art are also known as “OOAK” artworks. This means that every work of art is unique and there will never be another identical one.
Dimensions Height 19.7in, Width 15.8in
Framing This artwork is framed (Frame + Under Acrylic Glass)
Categories Drawings under $500 Symbolism

"Spiritual addiction" (Smoking kills) Indian ink, graphite, graphite --- Spirit of the work: Our relationship to the sacred. The ambiguity of secular societies with religion and/or its symbols. More and more of us on earth (and particularly in France) no longer believe in anything (atheists or agnostics), yet we act every day as if we could not live without religion. Is this the meaning of the sacred? The universal need to be connected? HOW WAS THIS WORK BORN? My son asks me one day: will there still be religions in the future? I didn't know what to answer, as we can observe that the more we advance in scientific knowledge, the more religious beliefs recede... So this work was born as a curiosity of the 21st century... A bit like a sheep at 5 paws to study which would join the curiosities of collectors' cabinets... The questions came later... Do we as individuals or even civilizations still need the concept of God? Can all the mysteries of the cosmos be solved by mathematical equations? If they can't, will “God” continue to fill in the gaps where our scientific knowledge stops? In short, in fine, I said to myself that secular or not, our societies still maintained many dependencies with religion or, more broadly, spirituality. Hence the addiction. And like any addiction, we refute, we hide what we really live. Civilizations have succeeded each other throughout history and have existed in conjunction with the religions themselves. Did civilizations need religions to be born and evolve? Or did they exist independently of religions? In this case, would religions act as parasites seeking to reproduce? That's it. I am addicted. And as "Smoking kills", who knows where Believing can take us?... --- Dimension of the drawing: H.50 x W.40 cm on Fine Art paper 100% cotton 300 gr/m2 Dimension with black wood frame and white passe-partout: H.52 x W42 cm Work ready to hang, with invoice and certificate of authenticity.

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Ink

A strongly tinted liquid or paste that is used to mark paper or other printable materials. The design is done manually with a slab, feather, brush, or straightener.

Graphite

Black and white drawing made with a pencil, an instrument made of a small wooden stick used as a sheath for a graphite mine of the same length.

Technic Drawing

Drawing is a technique of visual representation on a flat support. The term "drawing" designates both the action of drawing, the resulting graphic work, and the shape of any object. It is also a representation on a surface of the shape (and possibly the light and shadow values) of an object or figure, rather than their color. There are a large number of drawing techniques: “Linear drawing” represents objects by their outlines, edges and some characteristic lines; beyond this limit, the drawing develops by representing the volume by shadows, often by means of hatching, incorporates colors, and joins, without clear transition, the painting.

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Almakan

France

Born and living in the South of France, by the Mediterranean Sea, a promising artist in the performing arts since the age of 10, Almakan first embraced the more practical path of international business management,[...]

An engineer with a degree in geopolitics and strategic foresight, she ran businesses for 20 years, mainly in the fields of new technologies and communication, before deciding to devote herself exclusively to Art and try her luck as a full-time artist in 2016.

"Extracting Beauty from chaos and creating the future" is the whole soul of Almakan's work. Her world is blue and black, tinged with sunlight, just like her native land.

Her relationship with the future conditions her technique, she paints on canvases voluntarily uneven, sculpted with plaster or worked like a wrinkled skin in the image of our planet Earth, this blue stone... and like our existences, rarely smooth.

Obsessed with possible futures and the winding paths that shape humanity much more than the highways, she never stops exploring them by all the means given to her, combining paintings and curiosity drawings.