Can fire and water be friends? Sometimes when creativity takes its pace, every contradicting element emerges with something new and incredible. As our mediator, Steven Spazuk linked his art with fire and became a fire artist. His unbelievable artwork can make you believe that be ready for anything in this life, which has infinite surprises.
As fire always had the aura of villain, who destroys everything, has now changed his characteristic and transformed to an artist.Wait what? Mr.fire Chopra, getting into a new career as an artist?Yes almost, but here fire is the element by which the art is done by the artist Spazuk. Inspired by the art of fumage, a popular technique by the surreal artist of 1930s, they used fire as paint. Spazuk experiments started from his dreams where he saw a blak and white painting and immediately guessed the technique of it, that was fire.
Steven Spazuk
Zippo, a brand of lighter, collaborated with him.The brand says that the artist uses zippo windproof lighter to create art.The brand even launched a limited edition featuring Spazuks art.
His newest work was exhibited in the Boston Adelson gallery, London. He shaped the faire fumes from different tools to convey how fragile life is. As he says that fire consumes, warms and illuminates and can bring pain and death.The symbolic meaning of fire varies in a very broad way. So the artist focuses on the imagery of fragile things like birds and feathers,as his soul of art is exploring the fragility of life with his fumage technique.
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