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Born in Montreal in 1981, Zoltan Veevaete spent time travelling through Europe as a young man. It was there that he learned about painting by visiting museums and studying the great masters firsthand. In 2010 Veevaete received a bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from Concordia University, where he also won the Cecil Buller and John A. Murphy prize (2009). Interwoven by different styles and epochs and in a constant dialogue with the titans like El Greco, Picasso, George Grosz and Frida Khalo, Veevaete’s narrative works depict people set in familiar albeit uncanny theatrical scenes. Painted in a rich and warm palette and skillfully subdued by the use of light and shadows, his characters confront the viewer, interacting amidst the banal and the perverse, the world of cartoons and the grotesque from whence humour is never absent.
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