#kostromitin

[denisforkas]

The Hanged Man / Gift of Prometheus, 2017

Acrylics and gilding on paper, 41.5 x 29.5 cm

[drakontomalloi]

Denis Forkas Kostromitin - The Slant Serpent, the Tortuous Serpent. 2012-14

[denisforkas]

Two Women Teaching a Child to Walk, after Rembrandt, 2018

Red chalk on paper, 21 x 25.7 cm

[denisforkas]

Sortilege. Still Life with Ombra della Sera, 2018

Acrylics on paper, 29.4 x 21.4 cm

[denisforkas]

Sialfr Sialfom Mer*, 2018

Ink and graphite on paper, 28 x 18.5 cm

*unavailable

[denisforkas]

Dream of the Twelfth Labour, 2017

Acrylics on paper, 20 x 20 cm

In my dream I am adolescent Heracles having a prophetic dream about the twelfth labour. In search for the putrid Avernus I travel far south. The further I go the thicker the fog gets but there's no stench to guide me to the entrance – on the contrary, I’m treated to the most exotic flower fragrance. After a while I spot a source of light in the mist and it soon leads me to a lavender field with a decorated crystal coffer towering above it. Inside the coffer there’s an enormous shriveled corpse – its chest being consumed by smokeless fire in complete silence. I realize this is the entrance to Hades I've been after and rejoice. Without delay I shatter the coffer and immediately wake up into the darkness of hell – as a naked youth. I remember a woman laughing in front of me. The shock breaks the spell and I wake up again marveling about the idea of unleashing hell upon the world as the only means of entering it.

[denisforkas]

Hortus Aureus, 2017

Acrylics and gilding on paper, 34,8 x 28 cm

[denisforkas]

Aitna III / Three Immortal Archons*, 2017

Ink and acrylics on paper, 29.5 x 18.4 cm

*unavailable