(Article: AL-202613-907)
In “Transcendence of Bowie”, a reconstructed reality takes the form of a visual metaphor for contemporary perception.
The artist places David Bowie — not just a musical icon, but a cultural myth — into the space of a Russian winter suspended in weightlessness. Here, among crystalline fir trees and frosty silence, the artist’s image becomes not a figure of the past, but a signal from another dimension.
The canvas is saturated with Lebedef’s signature glitch-surrealism:
🔹 deconstructed pixels and color noise,
🔹 graffiti stripes and digital glitches,
🔹 fragments of a visual interface.
All of this is a visual reaction of the subconscious to the overheating of modern culture with information.
The natural, cultural, and digital collide and overlap, forming a new code of perception.
The color explosion around Bowie is a malfunction of the viewer’s consciousness, oversaturated by endless streams of data.
The snow-white forest symbolizes natural memory, calm, and silence.
And the figure of the musician is a mediator between eras, meanings, and worlds.
The attentive viewer notices that “Space Oddity” involuntarily plays in their head.
This is no coincidence — the painting works as a channel where sound, visual image, and emotional memory intertwine.
“Transcendence of Bowie” is an invitation to go deeper than the first glance.
We see what we want to see, but the meaning remains encoded —
and only attention reveals the hidden layers.
Artwork's condition:
Good
Year of creation of the painting:
2019
Artwork Type:
Original Artwork (One Of A Kind)
Style:
Surrealism
Technic:
Author's technique
Support or surface:
Canvas
Topic:
Celebrity Portraits
Size:
Large
Width:
80 cm
Height:
100 cm
Framing:
Ships From: Austria
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Returns: 14-day return policy
Antonio Lebedef — a contemporary artist with an architectural education (MARCHI), working at the intersection of art, science, and the visual cu ...
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