Anton UNAI

Rough and elegant artworks from traditional aesthetic boundaries. Meta-narratives, pop, science, subculture artifacts, religious iconography and a wide breadth of literary references from Therapeutic nihilism to anti Anti art
with the will to Nothingness...
Nietzsches grandiosity , 2013 Syphilis and creativity. Nietzsche’s grandiosity, Van Gogh’s death obsession, Schubert, Flaubert, Wilde, Joyce: Did the disease shape their work?.———————————— Technique: Magazine pages photocopied, glued, riped watered with acrylics, wine and brown sugar. Old grandma recipe. Size: a3 unframed and signed.

Nietzsches grandiosity , 2013


Syphilis and creativity. Nietzsche’s grandiosity, Van Gogh’s death obsession, Schubert, Flaubert, Wilde, Joyce: Did the disease shape their work?.
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Technique: Magazine pages photocopied, glued, riped watered with acrylics, wine and brown sugar. Old grandma recipe.

Size: a3

unframed and signed.

Modern LIFE has it BOTH ways , 2013 Here’s where Thoreau drew the line: city life on one side, nature on the other. You can’t have it both ways. But does modern life really permit a choice?’———————————— Technique: On canvas, Old swollen book, knives, paper cut outs, glass, Wood, cement, hydrogen, polymers such as nylon, polycarbonate, polyethylene; old dried out brushes, colours, ceramics, trapped protons and a finale branch of German brämberi which literally means “berry of a thorny bush. Size: unrecognisable DESTROYED soon after.

Modern LIFE has it BOTH ways , 2013

Here’s where Thoreau drew the line: city life on one side, nature on the other. You can’t have it both ways. But does modern life really permit a choice?’

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Technique: On canvas, Old swollen book, knives, paper cut outs, glass, Wood, cement, hydrogen, polymers such as nylon, polycarbonate, polyethylene; old dried out brushes, colours, ceramics, trapped protons and a finale branch of German brämberi which literally means “berry of a thorny bush.

Size: unrecognisable

DESTROYED soon after.

coded message to yall: AAAAAA B CCCCDD E F G HKK MMMNN OOOPP QQRRR S TTUUUWWZ Something like this happened to the most famous case of amnesia in 20th-century science, a man known only as ‘H.M.’ until his death in 2008. When he was 27, a disastrous brain operation destroyed his ability to form new memories, and he lived for the next 55 years in a rolling thirty-second loop of awareness, a ‘permanent present tense’.

coded message to yall: AAAAAA B CCCCDD E F G HKK MMMNN OOOPP QQRRR S TTUUUWWZ

Something like this happened to the most famous case of amnesia in 20th-century science, a man known only as ‘H.M.’ until his death in 2008. When he was 27, a disastrous brain operation destroyed his ability to form new memories, and he lived for the next 55 years in a rolling thirty-second loop of awareness, a ‘permanent present tense’.

WISE OLD BIRD, 2013 A wise old owl sat in an oak. The longer he sat, the less he spoke. The less he spoke, the more he heard. Why can’t we be like that wise old bird?

WISE OLD BIRD, 2013

A wise old owl sat in an oak.
The longer he sat, the less he spoke.
The less he spoke, the more he heard.
Why can’t we be like that wise old bird?
THE GENERAL PUBLIC EYE, 2013 The public is a ferocious beast. One must either chain it up or flee from it. ———————————— Technique: Magazine, Etching, drawing, burningSize: A4 unframed and signed.

THE GENERAL PUBLIC EYE, 2013

The public is a ferocious beast. One must either chain it up or flee from it.
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Technique: Magazine, Etching, drawing, burning

Size: A4

unframed and signed.

SERIOUS ACTIVITY, 2013 It should be noted that children’s games are not merely games. One should regard them as their most serious activities. ———————————— Technique: Magazine cut out, photocopy, glueSize: A4 unframed and signed.

SERIOUS ACTIVITY, 2013

It should be noted that children’s games are not merely games. One should regard them as their most serious activities.
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Technique: Magazine cut out, photocopy, glue

Size: A4

unframed and signed.

Marilyn: Say Goodbye To The President , 2013 The toxicology report shows high levels of Nembutal (38–66 capsules) and chloral hydrate (14–23 tablets) in Monroe’s blood. The level found was enough to kill more than 10 people. ———————————— Technique: Found plank of wood, photocopy, pens, acrylics, Size: Irregular unframed and signed.

Marilyn: Say Goodbye To The President , 2013


The toxicology report shows high levels of Nembutal (38–66 capsules) and chloral hydrate (14–23 tablets) in Monroe’s blood. The level found was enough to kill more than 10 people.
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Technique: Found plank of wood, photocopy, pens, acrylics,

Size: Irregular

unframed and signed.

I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY AND I PAINT IT, 2013 John Cage (Sept 1912 – August1992) was an American composer, music theorist, writer, and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde.———————————— Technique: Paper on drawingSize: 50 cm X 70 cm unframed and signed.

I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY AND I PAINT IT, 2013

John Cage (Sept 1912 – August1992) was an American composer, music theorist, writer, and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde.
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Technique: Paper on drawing

Size: 50 cm X 70 cm

unframed and signed.

Can we make sense of this turbulent period in Russian history? If you’re interested in the Gorbachev-to-Yeltsin-to-Putin era, many talented “historians and painters of the moment”—can explain how Russia moved from glasnost and perestroika to gangsterism and Pussy Riot over the past two decades.

Can we make sense of this turbulent period in Russian history?

If you’re interested in the Gorbachev-to-Yeltsin-to-Putin era, many talented “historians and painters of the moment”—can explain how Russia moved from glasnost and perestroika to gangsterism and Pussy Riot over the past two decades.

The ANTONUNAI Manuscript, a small and strange book, has for a century attracted scholars eager to decipher its contents. All failed. Most of the pages also bear illustrations: large-leafed plants, long tubes, astrological charts, a few goats, and many, many naked ladies bathing in pools and holding hands. Compared to the careful and sophisticated nature of the calligraphy, the drawings are primitive.

The ANTONUNAI Manuscript, a small and strange book, has for a century attracted scholars eager to decipher its contents. All failed.

Most of the pages also bear illustrations: large-leafed plants, long tubes, astrological charts, a few goats, and many, many naked ladies bathing in pools and holding hands. Compared to the careful and sophisticated nature of the calligraphy, the drawings are primitive.

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War.  The Poetry is in the pity.  Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense consolatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful. Greatest of the war poets who have written in the English language  WILFRED OWEN.

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War.  The Poetry is in the pity.  Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense consolatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful.

Greatest of the war poets who have written in the English language  WILFRED OWEN.

From ohlala, “rendezvous,” “tête-à-tête,” and “ménage à trois” , risqué to femme fatale, the language of love is French. The explanation is simple: the French invented Love.

From ohlala, “rendezvous,” “tête-à-tête,” and “ménage à trois” , risqué to femme fatale, the language of love is French. The explanation is simple: the French invented Love.