283:, as they were in April 1956. The painting wraps around several walls and viewers are able to walk from room to room while examining hundreds of Picasso's artworks in progress. Curator Fred Hoffman wrote, "While we, the viewer, are immediately intrigued and invited to partake of these historical moments, what actually sustains, even heightens our interest, is Damian Elwes' ability to turn documentation and historical record into compelling pictorial visions requiring repeated viewing and constant deciphering. Elwes' concern for historical accuracy, and his subsequent investigative process enable his fully realized paintings to have a freshness and immediacy which none of the source material contains nor conveys. It is not, therefore, the fact that he has painted Picasso’s studio that makes Elwes' work of interest. Rather, it is his ability to use the historical source material about Picasso to achieve some immediacy for his own concerns as a painter. In the end, it is the expressive quality of these works that we feel drawn to."
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Modernism Inc in San Francisco (2019). In 2018, he exhibited “Secrets of the Studio, Monet to Wei Wei” at Le Musée en Herbe, Paris. His work has been featured in numerous international publications, including Vogue Portugal, White Hot Magazine, and Elle Magazine.
157:(born 10 August 1960) is a British artist with studios in Los Angeles and the Colombian rainforest. His paintings explore themes such as the cycle of life and creativity. These artworks can be monumental and three-dimensional, such as a painting in which visitors walk from room to room on the ground floor of the "
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Elwes’s artistic practice focuses on capturing the sublimity of the creative experience by painting artists’ studios, transporting viewers into the worlds of creative geniuses and commemorating spaces that no longer exist. He has had solo exhibitions at prestigious venues such as the Fubon Art
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in Paris hosted "Secrets of the Studio, from Claude Monet to Ai Weiwei," a retrospective of Elwes' Artist Studio paintings. These paintings transport viewers directly into the worlds of creative geniuses from the 19th century to the present. More than one hundred thousand people attended his
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Elwes’s work is included in the permanent collections of the
Delacroix Museum, Paris, France; the Fubon Art Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan; the Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, USA; and the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.
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Paintings, 1993–2014 Meditations about the significance of cave paintings are brought to life because at 9 years old Elwes was gored and almost killed by a Spanish fighting bull.
374:, 1997 (Installation) 12 panels join together to form a square 360-degree painting. Viewers find themselves in an ancient garden with a house on one side and a forest on the other.
353:, 1999 (Installation) A floor painting describes the kind of ecosystem which existed millions of years before humans and which is likely to exist millions of years from now.
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In 1990, Elwes went to live in
Colombia with his wife, Lewanne. There he created four vast, interactive paintings which viewers can walk around inside. A floor painting,
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immersive and interactive exhibition. Visitors could walk through
Picasso's Villa in Cannes or roam around in a VR painting of Brancusi's original Montparnasse workshop.
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In 1996, Elwes married
Lewanne Collie, with whom he has two children: a daughter, Cosima Cary Elwes (born 1997), and a son, Aubrey Bede Elwes (born 2000).
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