Auction 762, Lot # 17

MELISSA KIME
(Trowbridge, Reino Unido, 1989 - )
Superman go!
Firmado y fechado 2014 al reverso
Óleo, lápiz de grafito y tinta sobre tela

(Trowbridge, United Kingdom, 1989 - )
Superman go!
Signed and dated 2014 on the reverse
Oil, graphite pencil and ink on canvas
160 x 120 cm

"A tutor once told me this, and these words have become the driving force behind my work: to bring the imaginative world closer. My work is also driven by loss as over ten years ago I lost a family member. My brother did not die, but his disappearance felt that way. I was eleven when I watched him look at me for the last time before walking away. I have not seen him again and so I began drawing so as not to forget him. My older brother was another love who fell instantaneously into an autobiographical realm where I capture fragments of important journeys. Here the times and places which I wish to not forget are kept safe; and so the characters in my stories are frozen in time; they are stopped from becoming forgotten or fading away by ghosts".
- Artist statement
160 x 120 cm
Estimado $50,000-70,000