Open Studio | Zhivago Duncan

Colector & Casa Dragones present Zhivago Duncan's open studio and works by Vanessa Lodigiani.

Duncans work is a negotiation of the disconnection between the physical and metaphysical state of consciousness and how we relate to it through culture and history, through painting, sculpture, installation and performative machines Duncan attempts to reconcile that disconnection which exists and will always exist through various different theories and cultural practices which create grand ideas, whether, religion, physics literature, myth or science fiction. He uses these ideas as building blocks in a timeline that he has created making a complete scenario of all encompassing things thus inventing its own legend.

Through this process Duncan places a conceptual framework on the range of concept itself: "it's not just about making stuff but about describing the history of paintings and the full genres of painting in order to arise important forms of progression as the difference between forms of writing or thinking and its physical manifestation".

In 2007 Duncan received his BFA in painting from Chelsea College of art and Design London. His works are in the collections of the Perez Art Museum Miami, the Saatchi Collection London, the Barjeel Foundation Sharjah, the Olbricht Collection Berlin and various private collections worldwide.

— Colector