COVID CHAOS
Covid Chaos
Twenty-four months which globally impacted the lives of every person on the planet.
“It was an incredibly challenging and uncertain time. I felt a constant state of urgency through mandated isolation.
Ironically, alone months on end at the ranch was fruitful and healing.”
Robert Santoré introduced a selection of new works made since the onset of the global corona virus pandemic.
Using oil stick on cotton rag paper, the artist has here updated the visual language of his established “Tavarua Kava Jazz” series, in which deceptively crude archetypal figures express the fundamental joys, movement and simultaneously the tensions and traumas that course through contemporary life.
Santorés “Tavarua Kava Jazz” series has been characterized by figures rubbed into the pictorial surface in a kind of drawing through erasure, whereas his new COVID Chaos employ only the direct application of oil paint, oil stick over intense colour in-studio produced gouache on cotton rag mounted to Belgian linen.
The repeated motif in his new works suggest both the ongoing context of global instability and our new reality.
“Covid Chaos in an ongoing project. I have never thought these works as sketches for other works but as autonomous, complete and final.”
Robert Santoré joins a cadre of influential contemporary American artists whose work employs a wide range of media to explore themes of art history, individual and shared cultural identities, personal narratives, literature, philosophy, materiality, and critical history.
“CLOUDBREAK” 100” x 176” (245cm x 447cm) I Oil, oil stick, military and industrial enamels on paper on canvas
“COVID CHAOS FERRARI RED”
Painting Size: 40 x 60in (101.6 x 152.4cm)
Hand printed limited edition silkscreen, hand painted high gloss enamel on the finest cold press archival acid free press 100% cotton rag paper with hand torn edges. Each one is slightly different and is an original on its own. Comes w/NFC chip.
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1 Original
4 AP
5 Edition
“TAVARUA KAVA GHOSTS RED NO 1”
Painting Size: 43 x 63in (109.22 x 160.02cm)
Framed Size: 46 x 66in (116.84 x 167.64cm)
Hand painted limited edition mono-print on the finest cold press archival
acid free press 100% cotton rag paper with hand torn edges. Each one
is slightly different and is an original on its own.
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1 Original
4 AP
5 Edition
“TAVARUA KAVA GHOSTS RED NO 2”
Painting Size: 43 x 63in (109.22 x 160.02cm)
Framed Size: 46 x 66in (116.84 x 167.64cm)
Hand painted limited edition mono-print on the finest cold press archival
acid free press 100% cotton rag paper with hand torn edges. Each one
is slightly different and is an original on its own.
NFT via the Fine Art Ledger
1 Original
4 AP
5 Edition
Covid Chaos Editions: Tropics
Painting Size: 40 x 100in (101.6 x 254cm)
Hand printed limited edition silkscreen, hand painted high gloss enamel on the finest cold press archival acid free press 100% cotton rag paper with hand torn edges.
Each one is slightly different and is an original on its own. Comes w/NFC chip.
“COVID CHAOS Tahiti Beach”
Painting Size: 40 x 100in (101.6 x 254cm)
Hand printed limited edition silkscreen, hand painted high gloss enamel on the finest cold press archival acid free press 100% cotton rag paper with hand torn edges. Each one is slightly different and is an original on its own. Comes w/NFC chip.
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1 Original
4 AP
5 Edition
“COVID CHAOS BIRD OF PARADISE”
Painting Size: 40 x 100in (101.6 x 254cm)
Hand printed limited edition silkscreen, hand painted high gloss enamel on the finest cold press archival acid free press 100% cotton rag paper with hand torn edges. Each one is slightly different and is an original on its own. Comes w/NFC chip.
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1 Original
4 AP
5 Edition
“COVID CHAOS FLORIDA KEYS”
Painting Size: 40 x 100in (101.6 x 254cm)
Hand printed limited edition silkscreen, hand painted high gloss enamel on the finest cold press archival acid free press 100% cotton rag paper with hand torn edges. Each one is slightly different and is an original on its own. Comes w/NFC chip.
NFT via the Fine Art Ledger
1 Original
4 AP
5 Edition
“COVID CHAOS Tahiti Beach”
Painting Size: 40 x 100in (101.6 x 254cm)
Hand printed limited edition silkscreen, hand painted high gloss enamel on the finest cold press archival acid free press 100% cotton rag paper with hand torn edges. Each one is slightly different and is an original on its own. Comes w/NFC chip.
NFT via the Fine Art Ledger
1 Original
4 AP
5 Edition
“COVID CHAOS LIDO ISLAND”
Painting Size: 40 x 100in (101.6 x 254cm)
Hand printed limited edition silkscreen, hand painted high gloss enamel on the finest cold press archival acid free press 100% cotton rag paper with hand torn edges. Each one is slightly different and is an original on its own. Comes w/NFC chip.
NFT via the Fine Art Ledger
1 Original
4 AP
5 Edition
“COVID CHAOS FLORIDA KEYS”
Painting Size: 40 x 100in (101.6 x 254cm)
Hand printed limited edition silkscreen, hand painted high gloss enamel on the finest cold press archival acid free press 100% cotton rag paper with hand torn edges. Each one is slightly different and is an original on its own. Comes w/NFC chip.
NFT via the Fine Art Ledger
1 Original
4 AP
5 Edition
Covid Chaos: Editions
Painting Size: 40 x 60in (101.6 x 152.4cm)
Hand printed limited edition silkscreen, hand painted high gloss enamel on the finest cold press archival acid free press 100% cotton rag paper with hand torn edges.
Each one is slightly different and is an original on its own. Comes w/NFC chip.
“COVID CHAOS FENDI SNOW”
Painting Size: 40 x 60in (101.6 x 152.4cm)
Hand printed limited edition silkscreen, hand painted high gloss enamel on the finest cold press archival acid free press 100% cotton rag paper with hand torn edges. Each one is slightly different and is an original on its own. Comes w/NFC chip.
NFT via the Fine Art Ledger
1 Original
4 AP
5 Edition
“COVID CHAOS FERRARI RED”
Painting Size: 40 x 60in (101.6 x 152.4cm)
Hand printed limited edition silkscreen, hand painted high gloss enamel on the finest cold press archival acid free press 100% cotton rag paper with hand torn edges. Each one is slightly different and is an original on its own. Comes w/NFC chip.
NFT via the Fine Art Ledger
1 Original
4 AP
5 Edition
“COVID CHAOS PACIFIC BLUE”
Painting Size: 40 x 60in (101.6 x 152.4cm)
Hand printed limited edition silkscreen, hand painted high gloss enamel on the finest cold press archival acid free press 100% cotton rag paper with hand torn edges. Each one is slightly different and is an original on its own. Comes w/NFC chip.
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1 Original
4 AP
5 Edition
“COVID CHAOS BAZOOKA BUBBLEGUM”
Painting Size: 40 x 60in (101.6 x 152.4cm)
Hand printed limited edition silkscreen, hand painted high gloss enamel on the finest cold press archival acid free press 100% cotton rag paper with hand torn edges. Each one is slightly different and is an original on its own. Comes w/NFC chip.
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1 Original
4 AP
5 Edition
“COVID CHAOS HERMÈS ORANGE””
Painting Size: 40 x 60in (101.6 x 152.4cm)
Hand printed limited edition silkscreen, hand painted high gloss enamel on the finest cold press archival acid free press 100% cotton rag paper with hand torn edges. Each one is slightly different and is an original on its own. Comes w/NFC chip.
NFT via the Fine Art Ledger
1 Original
4 AP
5 Edition
“COVID CHAOS VERSACE GOLD”
Painting Size: 40 x 60in (101.6 x 152.4cm)
Hand printed limited edition silkscreen, hand painted high gloss enamel on the finest cold press archival acid free press 100% cotton rag paper with hand torn edges. Each one is slightly different and is an original on its own. Comes w/NFC chip.
NFT via the Fine Art Ledger
1 Original
4 AP
5 Edition
“COVID CHAOS TIFFANY BLUE”
Painting Size: 40 x 60in (101.6 x 152.4cm)
Hand printed limited edition silkscreen, hand painted high gloss enamel on the finest cold press archival acid free press 100% cotton rag paper with hand torn edges. Each one is slightly different and is an original on its own. Comes w/NFC chip.
NFT via the Fine Art Ledger
1 Original
4 AP
5 Edition
“COVID CHAOS RED/WHITE & BLUE”
Painting Size: 40 x 60in (101.6 x 152.4cm)
Hand printed limited edition silkscreen, hand painted high gloss enamel on the finest cold press archival acid free press 100% cotton rag paper with hand torn edges. Each one is slightly different and is an original on its own. Comes w/NFC chip.
NFT via the Fine Art Ledger
1 Original
4 AP
5 Edition
“COVID CHAOS EGG PLANT””
Painting Size: 40 x 60in (101.6 x 152.4cm)
Hand printed limited edition silkscreen, hand painted high gloss enamel on the finest cold press archival acid free press 100% cotton rag paper with hand torn edges. Each one is slightly different and is an original on its own. Comes w/NFC chip.
NFT via the Fine Art Ledger
1 Original
4 AP
5 Edition
IMAGES : (1) Robert Santoré a MoMA (2) Detail of “You Shot Your Lady Down” in process at the Texas Studio (3) Sketches for Lady Down and Tallulah (4) Driving 150mph + back in the day Mammoth Lakes California (5) COVID lockdown day 42 “ (6) Detail “COVID CHAOS TWOxFour” (7) Detail of Christ “FAST FOOD” (8) Plans for shipping crate (9) Robert Santoré painting “COVID CHAOS TWOxFour” in the Texas studio
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