Justiniani has virtually reinvented the concept of the portrait within a modernist context. Justiniani’s face literally forms a gallery of horrors unequalled by any domestic artist to date. In the Surreal spirit the colors are morose versions of any rainbow palette. In this painting of a ‘face’, Justiniani does not go by external appearances. Not content with the simple naturalism, he uses various means to entrap the fierce and elusive demons of the private psyche. Imploding, he suggests, rather than exploding outwards, describes his art in which movement goes inward, stumbling through the perilous dark to an inner universe where the angst is from within.
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Mark Justiniani (b.1966)
Untitled
signed and dated 2000 (lower right)
oil on canvas
24” x 24” (61 cm x 61 cm)
PHP 400,000
Provenance: Private Collection, Bacolod City