Alexander Skats Sweden, b. 1986
Lizard Song, 2025
Oil on linen
59 1/10 × 39 2/5 in | 150 × 100 cm
signed and dated 2025 verso
€11,000.00
Lizard Song is one of the new works most deeply inspired by literary references, particularly Borges’ Poems of the Night and Huysum's Against Nature. The painting does not stem from...
Lizard Song is one of the new works most deeply inspired by literary references, particularly Borges’ Poems of the Night and Huysum's Against Nature. The painting does not stem from a single photographic source; instead, it is rooted in the atmosphere of various texts and grew out of an extended working process. I incorporated elements from my daily observations along the way—such as the magnolias I passed in a cemetery on the way to my studio.
I’m drawn to how reality and fiction can merge—how everyday impressions intertwine with literature and art historical motifs, such as the seascape. Formally, it calls to mind Courbet’s seascape paintings, or Rothko’s work, with their division of the pictorial surface.