EROS&ATROPHY

EROS&ATROPHY by MARKEL is a work that plunges deep into the realms of vulnerability, love, and self-protection. In this piece, MARKEL explores the tension between openness and fortification, between love that flows freely and the barriers we build to guard ourselves from pain. Inspired by Greek mythology and personal experience, EROS&ATROPHY weaves together the delicate and the defensive, creating a visual narrative that is both intimate and universal.

MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST

MARKEL transmutes philosophical rebellion into monumental mixed-media landscapes, wielding spray paint and acrylic like alchemical weapons across increasingly massive canvases. Each work becomes a battleground where totemic figures rise through layered pigments—spray paint's raw urgency colliding with acrylic's deliberate depth. He's not just creating art; he's expanding a visual universe that grows more intricate and immense with each iteration. Totemic figures rise from his work like primordial memories; primordial archetypes erupt from his canvases like spectral memories; ancestral shadows materialize, bleeding through the membrane between myth and perception. With each new project, MARKEL's vision threatens to consume entire walls, entire rooms, entire perceptual boundaries—a relentless expansion of artistic consciousness that refuses to be contained.

These aren't paintings to match your living room decor—they're unflinching cartographies of inner wilderness, designed to crack open whatever fragile narratives you've constructed about reality.