Frank Moth creates nostalgic postcards from a distant but at the same time familiar future. He makes digital collages and compositions with specific, distinctive color palettes, in a critically acclaimed style that is immediately recognizable.
Themes
Frank Moth’s collages focus on people, although he tends to hide or cover them so as to hide their vulnerability and expose their insecurity. Another theme is love in its deepest essence, an element that is obvious in collages with couples. Space is there, as the future reality that is combined with a nostalgic past, creating a new but all so familiar life. Last but not least, the life that lies implied into all kinds of sculptured stone, like statues. There is a special series of designs in Frank Moth’s portfolio that contradicts their stillness with a perpetual cycle of emotions.
The compositions are mainly human-centered. The presence of the human element is obvious, yet perpetually incomplete. There’s always something missing, interrupted, or covered. The face, for example, is usually covered and many times it’s not even there, so as to not surrender its vulnerable introspection, insecurity, and psychic truth without a fight.
Depersonalization/Derealization
In many of Frank Moth’s works people are pictured gazing upon themselves and their own lives on Earth from some distant point in outer space. The perspective of all things always seems to be on a strange verge, between a dream and an urban daily life.
The smothering failure of man to define and refine happiness today within geographic, temporal, and material {technological and consumerist} bounds, is repeatedly alluded to through the use of old, manipulated paper ads from decades past, as well as old fashion magazines.
Revision/Revival/Rebirth/Insecurity
Many of the artworks feature a subtle expression of companionship or the silent, solitary, obsessive search for it {the people usually have their backs turned and there is a hint of movement in the scenery}, combined with the surreal size disproportion and the disturbed relation between man and his environment/surroundings.
Obsession/Music/Pixels/Architecture
This is an attempt to create harmony between people and their surroundings, however imaginary, by using the eternal elements of colours, numbers, simple geometric shapes, symmetry, and subtraction, as well as universal words and concepts like “love”, “together”, “forever”, “never”, “infinity”, “why”.
BIO
Frank Moth was born in Athens in March 2014. He exists as an artist and as an alias for the two people that hide behind him.
He has been featured in many publications worldwide, such as Huffington Post US, Colossal, Buzzfeed and MTV Greece and many more.
His work is currently showcased around the world in many galleries. You can see his work on the walls of Stanford University as well as in the rooms of Bullitt Hotel in Belfast, Ireland.
