Alex Kuno depicts the folly and sinfulness of humankind in the wide-eyed and morose children with terrible secrets in the ever-changing story he refers to as “The Miscreants of Tiny Town”. His paintings recall the earthy, unsentimental, vivid genre paintings of Brueghel and some of his other influences on the series are Otto Dix, Beatrix Potter, and Bosch, among others.
The children of this tiny town exist in a surreal world of anxiety and depraved ne’er-do-wells—where they are permanently in arrested development. They’ve developed their own little cults and societies, which then run into each other. Kuno’s children roam in landscapes that have broken free of their rectangular constraints and given way to more naturalistic forms. No matter how vivid or gleeful the violence may seem in his work, these images are also satirical jabs at those universal fears from childhood that reflect our very natural tendency toward savagery. The new pieces are eccentric in dimension, painted on pieces of hand carved wood into unique curved shapes. The idea is to evoke pieces of illustrations torn from storybooks.
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