"I began my art career as a vandal, as a destroyer, making ugly the beautiful things of the past. I have been a vandal in the temple. Growing up in the 80s and 90s my culture was and is one of depravity, debasement and destruction and I have for many years seen myself in that same light. This is a cultural thing and true of many of my peers."
"Whether this is learned, or actual, this has been the defining quality of the culture I am in, and my work has reflected this attitude. I have recently had a change of heart and I am being regenerated. Where once I only saw the formal qualities of the pictures of the past, now I am beginning to see the subject, the content, the great mysterious ecstasy of these works."
NANZUKA presents Metanoia at NANZUKA UNDERGROUND featuring 15 new paintings by Christian Rex van Minnen. The works fuse 17th-century Baroque oil painting techniques with 20th-century Surrealism and contemporary American underground culture, often infused with a sharp sense of black humor and grotesque yet seductive imagery. The exhibition juxtaposes signature grotesque paintings with a new 'Straightforward' series adopting a classical still-life approach based on photographed market objects. Metanoia signifies change of heart and repentance, reflecting a personal regeneration from a past of cultural vandalism toward renewed attention to subject, content, and the mysterious ecstasy of historical pictures.
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