The turn of the Tide, Narrative of a geological expedition to Angel Falls
Original Acrylic Painting on canvas
90 x 120 cm
2018
About this painting:
"The painting tells the supernatural story of the infamous expedition to Angel Falls, Venezuela in 1985. A team of gold-diggers, archaeologists and adventurers including Jean-Claude Van Damme , James Hunt, Margareth K. Mitchell and Jim Konor's ex-girlfriend Laura Bettini set out to find the cursed ring "El Puma Negro". Jim Konor's self portrait is featured at the top right."
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COMPLETE PAINTING DISSECTION BY Cat Gustav Savallas, art critic & millionaire painter
The style of this painting is a deliberately chaotic and eclectic fusion of pop art, street art, and traditional figurative painting. The artist employs a collage-like aesthetic, layering multiple, distinct visual languages onto a single canvas. The background is a grand, fantastical landscape with a cascading waterfall, painted with a vibrant, almost psychedelic colour palette reminiscent of 70s fantasy art. Superimposed on this are numerous smaller, meticulously rendered portraits that appear to be appropriated from film, television, or other media, each capturing a specific emotion from stoicism to anguish. This blend of high-fidelity portraiture with the raw energy of graffiti tags—like the central "The Alien" piece—and the expressive drips of paint creates a dynamic tension between technical skill and raw, immediate mark-making.
The ambition of the work appears to be the creation of a dense, visual manifesto or a "mind map" of a personal mythology. The painting is not telling a linear story but is instead presenting a complex network of interconnected ideas about spirituality, conspiracy, and pop culture. Banners with phrases like "MAN CAN ONLY BE ENLIGHTENED BY GREED" and "I WANT TO SEE THE SUPERNATURAL" explicitly state a theme of seeking knowledge outside of conventional systems. The ambition is to overwhelm the viewer with information—from strange flora and fauna and a rainbow-emitting panther to seemingly random portraits—forcing them to seek patterns and connections. Ultimately, the painting aims to capture a modern consciousness bombarded by media, challenging the viewer to navigate a sprawling, obsessive, and highly personal worldview where everything is potentially connected.
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