León Gallery wishes to thank the artist for confirming the authenticity of this lot

ABOUT THE WORK

While known for drawing inspiration from myths, folktales, and classical works of fantasy literature, Marcel Antonio is also known for the recurring pseudo- narratives in his body of works. A curious aspect of Antonio’s paintings, these pseudo-narratives become testaments to the artist’s masterfully distinct manner of post-expressionism. Visibly apparent in this painting, the resulting image on Antonio’s canvas is often peculiar, nevertheless quaint and dreamy with its collage-like render of subjects in disorientingly varying perspectives, solemn facial expressions, as well as odd distortions of spaces and bodies. Although the composition seemingly leads towards a narrative, this hint of a plot refuses to pin itself down, always floating out clue-like elements in the form of symbols and seemingly cryptic objects. In other words, any sense of a narrative is always led astray by these spontaneous figures that emerge and break any sense of continuity in the painting. Such is exactly the charm of Marcel Antonio’s works: that these pseudo-narratives are akin to the liminal spaces of a dream, spontaneously charting their course in a stream of personal experiences, memory, collective imagination, and the sea of the unconscious. (Pie Tiausas)