Antony Micallef
I Brake Everything
Silkscreen Print
Image Size: 365 X 570 mm
Paper Size: 585 X 750 mm
I Brake Everything is poignant and
powerful, combining exquisite
draughtsmanship with a dark and passionate
melancholy. Micallef suggests a final goodbye in a kiss between two
figures, one healthy, one skeletal and distorted.
Their shape creates the smeared outline of a blackened heart,
while above floats a biologically accurate heart.
The darkness of the imagery is relieved by
delicate washes of pastel colours. The faint
rivulets of pink running down the centre of the larger heart
suggest at once that it is breaking or bleeding, and that tears are
running down the cheeks of the kissing figures.
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About the artist
Antony Micallef was born
in Swindon in 1975, and is a graduate of Fine Art from the
University of Plymouth, and is now an internationally
acclaimed contemporary artist and painter.
Micallef appeared on the art scene in 2000, winning second prize
in the BP Portrait Award competition. Since then his mix of
political imagery fused with contemporary expressionism has won him
worldwide acclaim. He illustrates many contemporary cultural
aspects and connects them with the human experience. His use of
neutral colours and depictions of the human form delve beyond pop
culture and bring to the surface many of the things that operate
underneath the cultural construct.
Micallef has exhibited throughout the world from Los Angeles and
Tokyo to Bethlehem. Recent exhibitions include the National
Portrait Gallery, Royal Academy and the Tate Britain. It's reported
that collectors of his work include Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and
Damien Hirst, among others.