Title: The Colosseum

Year: 2012

Medium: Oil on the canvas, imitasyon gold, silver and copper leaf.

Dimensions: 125×85 cm

Series: Forbidden Zone- III: Antiq&Mythlogy

Status: Available

Description:

This work is inspired by the Colosseum, a structure where power, spectacle, and human suffering once converged. Rather than portraying it as a historical monument, the piece approaches it as a living arena of collective memory.
The absence of direct figures emphasizes presence through traces-echoes of violence, control, and silent withesses embedded in stone. Architectural forms and enclosed spaces suggest both grandeur and entrapment, reflecting the thin line between dominance and vulnerability.
This work explores the duality of human nature: the desire to watch and the fear of becoming the one who is watched. The arena remains, not as a ruin, but as a mirror-revealing what persists beneath civilization.

Material & Process:

The painting was created on a surface prepared with imitation gold, silver and copper leaf, layered powders and marbled textures, then completed with oil paint.

Unframed