Paul Lisak
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Paul Lisak – Summer 2009 Paul Lisak was born in Bayonne in 1967 of a French mother and a Russian Father. At the age of two, his family went to England, where he was brought up and still lives today. He studied Fine Arts at Saint Martin’s School of Art in London. Paul Lisak has developed a consistent and personal practice in both music and painting, inspired by science, mythology and theology. He tries to integrate these different sources into paintings, while giving particular relevance to the tradition of painting and the works of old masters. Titian, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Caravaggio and Rubens are explicitly present, while the influence of modern masters like Picasso, Bacon and Rothko are also perceptible in his work. In Lisak’s paintings, the use of traditional techniques and form of composition are elements of a particular historical displacement, while he reflects on issues that are so topical today – issues relating to religion, dealing with the individual, others regarding the ambivalences between science and theology, or those concerning wars and all manner of conflicts. Suffused with mystery, his paintings, with their intricate compositions recall the masters of the 16th and 17th centuries, while both characters and themes are our contemporaries. A work which combines a search for beauty, for realism, questioning our present, and its forms of horror through a melancholic form of refection. Web
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