As part of our Winter group show titled 🖤For All We Know There Was, And All There Ever Be🖤 opens featuring George Cho, @selenawong.fineart and @adam_wallacavage inquire for a full VIP pdf now available✨ @galleryhouse_belinda featuring a number of new works virtual tour to be released soon of @raycaesar1111 depicted here ”Sirens of Cythera” digital ultrachrome on panel with varnish measuring 30 x 40” image size one of a kind. ⠀ I have always been fascinated with paintings related to Cythera, by the French painter Jean-Antoine Watteau; the Embarkation for Cythera, the Pilgrimage to Cythera, and Les Deux Cousines. In the ancient world, Cythera, one of the Greek islands, was thought to be the birthplace of Venus, goddess of love. The subject of Cythera may have been inspired to Watteau by certain 17th century operas or plays. In Florent Carton Dancourt's Les Trois Cousines (The Three Cousins), a girl dressed as a pilgrim steps out from the chorus line and invites the audience to join her on a voyage to the island, where everyone will meet their ideal partner. I suppose in uncertain times I feel a call to those Arcadian places of peace and serenity, and it's worth noting that some aspects of the models and figures in this piece were created in virtual reality using Oculus Quest 2, which is a first for me. The idea of escaping into a virtual environment is directly related to my obsession with dissociation and the paracosms of the stories I have built up in my mind over a lifetime. ~Ray Caesar #raycaesar #digitalart #popsurrealism #hifructosemagazine #artoftheday #artistsoninstagram #contemporaryart #fineart #darkart #platinumcheese #instaart #painting #portrait #masterpiece #newcontemporary #newcontemporaryart #contemporaryartist #widewalls #booooooom #selenawong #georgecho #adamwallacavage #booooom #theartnewspaper #canadianartmagazine #artsy #artsdaily #criterioncollection #hyperallergic #oculusquest https://www.instagram.com/p/CH5eWlSAbXi/?igshid=1uytch5mhnlyl
