Parallax

Dimensions: 29.5 x 20 Inches / 74 × 51 cm Medium: Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle Museum Etching matt paper 350gsm Provenance: Hand-signed, dated and hand-numbered by artist. Includes original artist signed certificate of authenticty from Avant Arte. Edition: Limited Edition of 606 (#191/606) Year: 2022 Condition: Excellent   ARTIST BIO Christian Rex Van Minnen’s absurdist canvases revel in the grotesque, violent, and otherworldly and occasionally display a strange beauty. Many of his subjects, riddled with sores and pustules, call to mind horror movie monsters and toxic-waste grotesqueries, while his neon-hued floral arrangements are embedded with rotting skulls. Minnen juxtaposes his decrepit and decaying figures with a motif of cheery painted gummy candies that hang from dead flowers, adhere to humanoid heads, and otherwise operate as playful and wry counterpoints to his macabre tableaux. His paintings are informed by an artistic lineage that spans from Dutch vanitas to the wor