Description
Title: We Can’t Be The Same
Dimensions: 20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Style: German Expressionism – Contemporary
Artist: ArNoUx
Year: 2025
Signature: ArNoUx, lower right corner
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Curatorial Statement
In We Can’t Be The Same, ArNoUx presents a bold confrontation between two inner worlds. On the left, a face burns with raw, animalistic energy—its mouth curled in a smirk, eyes full of fire. On the right, a figure rendered in ghostly gray, stares outward, distant, restrained, buried in thought.
The background blazes with orange, blue, and crimson tones, suggesting a charged atmosphere—sunset or fire, end or beginning. Both figures inhabit the same canvas, yet they do not touch. Their proximity is physical, not emotional. They exist in contrast, not harmony.
ArNoUx’s brushwork is fearless and instinctive, pulling from the core of German Expressionism while forging a distinct contemporary voice. This is not a double portrait—it is a psychological battlefield. A place where duality lives, breathes, and cannot be resolved.
Through We Can’t Be The Same, ArNoUx continues to challenge the viewer’s perception of identity, co-existence, and internal conflict. It is a visual essay on the impossibility of symmetry within the human condition.
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