You And I Are Earth

About the work

Contemplate the intrinsic dance of passion and the enduring strength embodied by love in this poignant still life. Gjoen masterfully captures the delicate balance between the constraints of reality and overflowing emotion in the confined heart, with Cupid’s arrow representing love’s transformative and sometimes piercing nature. Archival pigment inks on 310gsm cotton rag.

Describing himself as an ‘accidental artist’, Magnus Gjoen was born in London to Norwegian parents and had a successful career in fashion before his thought-provoking spin on old masterpieces and fragments from the past made him a sought-after name in permanent collections around the world, including the Haifa Museum of Art and the Daimler Collection. Blending genres from completely different worlds, Magnus’ art is about rediscovery. He questions the notion of beauty by juxtaposing a range of styles and media, injecting a fine-art approach with a street/pop aesthetic that invites viewers to look closer, question, and challenge.