Description
Title: The Masks of Power
Size: 20 x 16 inches
Medium: Mixed media on canvas (acrylic, cardboard collage, found objects)
Artist: ArNoUx
Year: 2025
Style: German Expressionism / Contemporary Collage
Curatorial Description:
In The Masks of Power, ArNoUx unearths the hidden machinery of global manipulation through a visceral, layered collage. The central figure—painted in spectral tones—smokes a cigarette, an emblem of control, vice, and calculated indifference. Around this shadowy leader, fragmented faces emerge from the cardboard structure above, each one a symbolic mask of those who sit in her parliament, taking orders to ignite conflict.
The texture of torn paper, industrial paint, and corporate graphics clashes with expressive brushwork, exposing a corrupt theatre of authority. This is a portrait of political decay: the smoldering calm of a leader who commands destruction from behind a veil of influence. With brutal honesty, ArNoUx renders war not in bombs, but in silence, smirks, and smoke.
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