“Seeko'o”

Artist: Benjamin Klemencic

Painting: Acrylic on Canvas, on stretcher, gallery wrap

Size: (height x width x depth)

27.6 x 39.4 x 0.6 in

70 x 100 x 1.5 cm

Year: 2016

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The trigger to paint “Seeko’o” was a hot, stressful day when I was longing for cooling and calm.

“Art means not knowing that the world already exists, and making one.” Rainer Maria Rilke

While painting, I remembered the impressive photos of the Antarctic trip of a friend and the film “Shackleton” about the legendary polar explorer with Kenneth Branagh in the lead role “hike through Antarctica in your mind’s eye … let your eyes wander over a frozen sea with waves in fantastic shapes. Alternating icebergs, like fairy locks, pearly shimmering in cobalt blue … and silence. Silence. Absolute silence.”

The title “Seeko’o” is “iceberg” in the language of the Inuit.

I hope my minimalist, abstract painting will give you a lot of pleasure, peace and relaxation.