Chaunting in Light the Words That Are Winged With Darkness

Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 cm 
Documenting the events after the killing of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement

Burning Car

This is a mix of several layered and mixed paintings, inspired by the style of Basquiat.
Among the depicted motifs are Tyler, the Creator, and "Jane Fonda's Workout", 1982.

https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Tyler/426928/3256999/view

Size: 70 H x 50 W x 2 cm

Tyler

Lamentation A-IK34-20

Lamentation A-EG6-22

The Flea and The Acrobat / Lamentation A-EF57-13

Gebäude Nr. 13

Lamentate (Marsyas)

Falling Blue Leaves

Tree of Blue Leaves

A Trail of Indeterminate Light

Change or Perish

Autumn Signal

as lightning comes, in flashes

Zaporizhzhia, Still

IMG_9028

Daniel

Cherry Trees

I Saw a Dream

O Master of All Living (Text from Alfred Schnittke, Concerto for Choir)

When the Day Is Done

Grid Piece

Art is expressed from the smallest of things from those closest to us, even when they go to the other world!
"Searching for memories" is a work that I recreated based on a true story 4 years ago about a loving couple about to get married when the boy died leaving behind a grief that could not be met. disappeared from her train of thought. The whole picture is a fusion of two worlds - the boy I drew with a white standing representing his soul and the girl with a sad expression just wishing for a hug from him , a hug that is so close but so far away that it can't be touched! In addition, the mixed colors with warm and soft tones make the picture more magical. The two characters in the picture are the two people in the above story who can't meet each other anymore, but they still remember each other the lines of memories they have engraved in their minds about a time together. The two characters in the picture bring a human meaning and are an ideal model for couples in love!

Composer : Mario Bend (MB)

Material: Oil painting

Created on : March 12, 2017 by Mario Ben

Address: Los Angeles, U.S

© Copyright 12/3/2017 by artist Mario Ben
© DO NOT RE-UP ANY WHERE

Searching for memories

Cette peinture sur fond or met en lumière ma vision de la tendresse 

Gold

Cette peinture colorée a une composition simple qui met en lumière deux personnages qui s'aiment

Love234

Il s'agit d'un dessin où le trait va plus vite que l'imagination

Sur les nuages

Mixed media on foamex board. 46cm x 87cm. 2021.

Two People, One Body

Mixed media on paper, card board and plastic. 31cm x 32cm. 2021.

Your My Everything 

Mixed media on foamex board and  textiles. 50cm x 31cm. 2021.

You Don't Wear Pain Very Well

Mixed media on paper, card board and textiles. 59cm x 47.5cm. 2021.

Taking The Heart

Inspired by a twitter account, nothing new so far. 

Oil on Paper

Jeff Bezos has decided he will not end world hunger today

Documenting the riots following the Black Lives Matter movement, 
Oil on wood painting, 15 x 15 cm

Burning Police Truck

A strange mix of fantasy and realism, Trouble in Paradise presents a future-Earth where advances in technology have broken down the barriers separating dream, desire and reality, producing a hallucinatory world that references the works of writer Angela Carter and film-maker David Cronenberg. The animation follows a family as they make their way through a ruined temple overrun with alien statues, impossible plant life and artefacts of a fictional past. Despite the absurdity of what they see, the tourists walk around the ruins unfazed, taking in the sights as if everything was normal. Forming part of a larger investigation into how our increasing immersion in the internet changes the way we experience the natural world, Trouble in Paradise examines the anxiety and possibilities brought about when the digital spaces existing on the other side of our phone, laptop and television screens encroach into the material world.

Trouble in Paradise

'Static', 2018 is a video piece exploring the facets of consumerism with the medium of the television. Using a broken tv aerial, I took to telemarketing channels and used the aerial distortions to manipulate the reproduction of the screen and the representational imagery. In a performative and playful manner, I control the effects through the motions of the aerial, commanding the space for my own interpretation on the medium of mass consumerism and tv culture.

Static

'The Language of Aerial Maneuvers', 2018 is a body of work, exploring the multilayered world of mass consumerism, employing a variety of digital (& analogue) techniques. Transforming my computer screen as a canvas to explore vintage advertisements; I explore the growth of capitalism in the 1980s whilst playing with the notion of performing for oneself. Using a multitude of mediums (VHS, digital images & video) to capture the semiotics of commodity within the realm of advertising, I bring about the creation of my 'language' with the motif of a TV aerial being a signifier of communication (or lack thereof).

The Language of Aerial Maneuvers

A simple and relaxing art practice with a common household item. 
It is inspired by Mandala painting and aboriginal art.

Dot Meditation

It was planned to exhibit this in the group exhibition "Nebulous" at Studio Baustelle, Neukölln. 
It is now cancelled and turned into an online exhibition. 
42 x 60 cm, Oil on paper. 

Veiled

Human Eclipse
Mixed media (oil and acrylics) on canvas
51 x 51 x 3 cm

Spring 2020. 
A pandemic devastates the world. 
An apocalyptic scenario unfolds that only sci-fi had prepared us for.
Human existence is eclipsed while nature is reborn.
Spring never seemed so vibrant, as isolation took over.
From the deepest silence emerged new art.
Images imbued with solitude and despair.
Like seeds of hope to grow a better future
Where man and nature 
Walk hand in hand.
Intimations of a wise new world, 
The potential to embrace all of life,
Rather than eclipse parts of it.
This painting reveals light from within.
Like a radiant moon in the dark sky
It illuminates itself, 
Like a being that sustains its own life.
It seems most alive at night,
In the darkest of times. 


Human Eclipse

Digital Icon 
with painted sides
Mixed media (Acrylic and oil paint)
60.3 x 60.3 x 3 cm

Having explored iconography in its many expressions around the world, it seemed that iconography of a new kind was needed. I felt inspired to create my own visionary iconography, the 'Iconography of the Future'. Whilst religious icons guided people's beliefs in Medieval Europe through the scarce production of icons with massive social impact and spiritual content, the secular world generates vast amounts of imagery in a free, organic and ever-changing manner in the digital era. No longer is there a single, standardized spiritual type of imagery guiding all people. This is was an important change in the history of imagery, which left people free to find the imagery that best suits their spiritual needs on an individual basis.

This painting reflects my visionary exploration of what a futuristic icon may look like if medieval tradition had continued to evolve; abstract enough to symbolize mankind as we collectively navigate our way into new ways to live, yet devised for each individual to recognize themselves within it. It encompasses the sacred Eastern mandala of meditation, a spiritual tool that centres the mind and helps us navigate through the different dimensions and aspects of human existence (physical, mental, and spiritual). Dynamic yet still, this Future Icon symbolizes today's man and woman's dynamic process of adapting to new ways to think and experience spirituality now and into the future.



Digital Icon

Future Icon
Mixed media oils and acrylics
with painted sides
Includes metallic paint
H152.3 x W75.6 xD 3.7cm

Part of my series entitled Digital Iconography,
alongside Digital Icon and Timeless Icon


Future Icon

A comment on introspection and surveillance.

Exhibited 2019 at BBK Karlsruhe, Online / Offline exhibition.

ca 40 x 30 x 70 cm

CCTV Buddha

Acrylic on canvas - framed 
50.6 x 60.7 cm

This painting was inspired by the humanistic idea of human development.
Man/Woman stand in the cosmos, growing upwards psychologically and spiritually.
Human form is represented as a robotic template, a blueprint. 
Matter merges with light. Inner light emanates from the self, 
interacting and transforming through contact with external information.
A being in a multi-dimensional universe, it is represented in a seemingly flat surface, 
yet depth reveals itself upon closer inspection. 


Enlightenment

Acrylic on canvas 
61.5x61.5cm

A geometric conceptualisation of the Earth in relation to the circumventing planets, its sunsets and horizons, depicted through challenging angles and perspectives. The intensity and complexity of our world is portrayed in dramatic shading and contrasts. A reference to time and its subjective perception appears in the shape of a sand timer. Reflections of light on black water, the purple haze of space and a turquoise atmosphere. A geometric portrait of Earth.


Horizons

Acrylic on canvas with painted sides
W91.3 x H60.79x D3.5 cm 

This painting is inspired from neuro-theological research and the finding of
areas in the brain that activate during prayer, meditation and spiritual
experiences. The scientific search for God within the brain has yielded
some fruitful results: the finding of areas  (using neuro-imaging
technology -fMRI scans) that activate during spiritual experiences, prayer,
and meditation. However, the interpretation of these findings is proving to be
amore challenging: For some, these spiritual 'hotspots' in the brain generate
these experiences; for others, the pinpointing of these specific areas only
shows that God speaks to humans through localized areas in
the brain. Scientific attempts to prove or disprove the existence of God
continue on...


God Within

Oil On Canvas
with painted sides
76.5 x 86.5 x 4 cm

The Rise of Consciousness

Acrylic on Canvas with painted sides
W 86.5 x H101.5 x D3.7

Technology and biology collide in this painting. A robotic conceptualisation of mankind, at the intersection between life and technology, this painting reconciles two worlds. At a time of climate emergency, it is a tribute to mysterious world of plants. Silent, vivid manifestations of life, they are embodiments of creativity, symbols of love. Deceptively fragile in appearance, the rarest orchids can only be found at high altitude, in the most remote, inaccessible islands. Could they be hiding from the hand of man?

This painting is an image of dignified beauty; a symbol of the atonement of human life towards the natural world. It holds the potential to portray a man-made tunnel leading to oblivion, as much as a way towards a more harmonious way of life. Sliding plates give a sense of perspective and rapid motion, as if traveling at high speed through time. 

As the speed of life accelerates, new efforts are required to protect these delicate creatures. Amongst concrete and metal, rare flowers and wild orchids cling on to life.

The Future of Life

Acrylic on canvas with painted sides
50.8 x 87 x 3.8 cm

Chromatic compass, a recent painting that encapsulates my passion for colour and geometry. Futuristic angles and vivid colours (including silver metallic paint) both collide into a striking composition. At first glance, this paintings seems static. Yet a dynamic sense of movement emerges from this work. Amidst a chaotic world, inner vision can guide the way into stillness. Like a lens leading us into to clarity.

I aimed to achieve a sense of psychological completeness, or Gestalt, in this creation, for silence to be the lasting impression. This final effect reflects my creative practice. There is a meditative, therapeutic element to my painting practice that I hope transpires from my art practice to the painting. The viewer is welcome into a world where paradoxes are resolved, reaping the benefits of a transcendental experience that leads to mindfulness.

Chromatic Compass

The final sunset

The end of civilization. The human experiment failed. Greed and power wan. Like a new Atlantis, the last city on earth is engulfed by the sea. 

Is it too late? What would the final sunset looks like? Does human life have to become extinct for other species to survive? Will the advanced human mind find the solutions to coexist?Are these the final days of our beautiful planet?

The final sunset

I layered several paintings to get the effect.
The mix of abstract and figurative is what I'm aiming for, as a development of Basquiat's Neo-Expressionism.

Size: 40 H x 60 W x 1.8 cm


Eggleston

A painting/drawing on paper, based on a photo
29x20 cm

sinner

A Juicy Turkey is a dark humor short film about a housewife quite to addicted to George Clooney !

http://www.ladinde.fr/english/film.html
Watch it on line for free. English & German subtitles.

  Best International Short - Raindance Film Festival (London)

A Juicy Turkey (La Dinde Marinée)

The Strathcona Regional District is accepting submissions from artists to supply and install a sculpture that signifies the wave of a tsunami. The purpose of this sculpture is to better draw in people towards the Tsunami Evacuation Map near the government wharf (post office).

  
Wave sculpture criteria:

* No higher than 8-feet tall.
* No glass.
* No sharp edges.
* Constructed of low maintenance materials.
* Includes installation cost.
* Possess high wind resistance (strong foundation).

  
The deadline to supply and install the sculpture is January 31, 2026.

Walters Island Tsunami Wave Sculpture

The Strathcona Regional District is accepting submissions from artists to paint a mural(s) that signifies adapting successfully to a changing climate to inspire ingenuity, conversation and hope. The murals are to be painted on 4 different tanks located at:

* Mansons Landing Firehall (2 tanks)
* Sutil Road (2 tanks)

Each water tank is approximately 12’ diameter x 20’ high. Submissions can consist of one or more rendering.

The budget available for this work is $4,200 per mural.

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