Ur Kasin

Ur Kasin (b. 1998) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Bucharest, Romania. Kasin paints banal subjects with an abstract and textural richness, creating captivating compositions that unearth the deep complexities of the human experience. 

 

Kasin describes his work as a "puzzle", lying between the precipice of thought and action. His layered and bustling compositions depicting 'everyday' actions call for an attentive viewer to search for the idiosyncratic and dark realities that underlie our existence in the post-digital age.

 

His artistic process starts with a thought or feeling he refers to as the 'seed'. Kasin then harnesses the vast narratives and the atmosphere of familiarity provided by the digital realm to visualise the 'seed' through online sketching and collage creation. After translating his online creations into the analogue world through charcoal drawings, Kasin builds depths and contrasts of the 2D-image and subsequently plans the colour palette, brushwork and palette knife textures for his final oil painting.

 

His body of work spans digital collage, sculpture, and oil paintings, exploring themes of absurdity such as dirt, cells, space, fur and food. His most recent work delves into the human emotions intrinsically tied to notions of the 'absurd' and banal. Expanding upon the traditional trope of genre painting, Kasin seeks to portray the beauty harboured by ordinary moments, coalescing the banal with sui generis, creating a visual narrative that dictates the exceedingly unique and emotional experiences that are inherently mundane in our contemporary life.