EMIL URBANEK
Name: Emil Urbanek
Age: 23
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Home: Berlin, Germany
Discipline: Painting
No Title, 2023, graphite, acrylic and oil on canvas, picture by Peter Oliver Wolff
What are the main topics you deal with in your practice?
Through metaphorical bodies such as bushes, fruits and fragile containers like glasses, I try to open a narrative where figures find themselves all around and nowhere in a world that is inherently queer. Resting, resting on something, it holds, contains, is a container.
How do you define your artistic research in three words?
Just begin somewhere.
What images and spaces do you want to create through your work?
Within my work, I try to pause and examine the momentary. Figures and objects often find themselves in focused sceneries that are not clearly definable. Opening a space that allows for an atmosphere which carries hesitation and doubt as well as curiosity and lust.
Where and how do you find poetry?
I must have found some form of poetry in pears, which is why they appear in my work so continuously. I find them to be so versatile in their posture and to me, they carry a lot of vulnerability and emotion. Generally, I tend to find poetry in rather unexpected moments or forms. It’s when I notice something recurring in my mind and occupying me in a certain way.
In your view, what does being an artist mean in today’s world?
In my view, working artistically in any way has always been a very individual experience.
But it definitely means hard work.
Seven Or Five, 2023, oil and dammar on wood, picture by Dotgain
One To Three, 2023, oil and dammar on wood, picture by Dotgain