Steve Mantinaos
When we bond with nature, she rewards us with beauty. Seeing true nature is a fascination and challenge for me and it drives my artistic practice. My desire to create leads me on a path to discover what is essential to all human beings— what is essentially human and what is essentially non-human. Culture runs through us bringing currents of objectification as well as reification. Technology increasingly assigns human-like traits to inanimate objects while we become more inanimate and homogeneous in the presence of technology. What it is to be human is called into question as we sense a mystery and menace behind the bright promise of technology.
Email: nicetooth@hotmail.com
Website: https://www.saatchiart.com/SteveMantinaos
Instagram: @stevemantinaos
Acrylic on bristol, 18x25, 2017
Crayon on paper, 18x2
Charcoal on paper, 18x24, 2018
Oil on linen, 42x42, 2018
Charcoal on paper, 18x24, 2018