The corruptions and violence in Rai Escalé’s dark paintings may be personal, but also come from the collective subconscious shared by each human being. His horrific art alternates between shocking and disturbing, but remains deeply insightful and may stimulate the journey of self-discovery of the viewer. The hidden meanings behind Escalé’s images aren't necessarily learned, but may stem from the unconscious. Making statements on the freakishness of consumerism and beauty culture, Rai Escalé has managed to pursue the nature of phantasmagorical human alternations, and evoke some of the discomfort one has when facing others. You could say, his obtrusive work has undone and decoded the ferocity of Bacon.
Stephanie Anderson
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You know her name is Margarita!
She came from the Michail Bulgakov's novel "Master and Margarita"...
When Master met Margarita on the street she was carrying the yellow flowers “mimosa” - the first flowers to appear in the spring here. "She said that she had come out with the yellow flowers that day so that I'd find her at last" (chapter. 13). Margarita's flowers are a symbol of misery; yellow is the color of the madhouse (state buildings in Soviet Union were painted dark yellow, and "yellow house" means "madhouse" since Fyedor Dostoevsky times), as well as the color of betrayal -- one should never give yellow flowers to a lover in Russia…
Well…this is the portrait of Master’s Margarita so the portrait of Muse;))))
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