RAPHAEL VIERT

Raphael Viert is a self-taught painter who shows his subjects within an environment of the good and the bad. He paints both classical and contemporary imagery, originally found in books, online or are simply made up; the palette play an act of balance between the subjects and the often lose and open backgrounds. The main nature of his subject matter speaks from within his heart. From the loss of his mother in a young age, Viert has this boundless emptiness of leaking information he is missing from his mother that allows him to fill in with his own. This creates an interruption or deformation of reality, which is necessary in his works. The representation of his works is a way to show our abilities of transformation from the bad to the good. The absence of his own mother has also shaped his artistic existence.As with an old analogue film, it needs the negative to develop the positive. Thus, his art lives from avoidable contrasts and expressive contradictions that reflect and drive real life. The images are often distorted, deformed and far from what they should look like, obscuring their intrinsic significance whilst simultaneously engendering them with a more contemporary relevance. His lose brushwork is often mixed with his more precise fine liner marks, showing an unavoidable interest in the often-absurd contradictions in one’s own self. Viert embraces these characteristics, and uses these to mirror those he sees in society, and of course, his own mother.