Sobre el Artista

Dan Civa Biography Painter of realistic/expressive style and technique in wide-ranging, extensive pictorial subjects. Art Academy & Free Art School & Self-taught. Born 1939 in the southern part of Denmark on the borderland to Germany. Residence in Copenhagen, Denmark and in North East Thailand Subjects in paintings: animals, people, places and nature, using warm colors, influenced from long time staying in the Far East with kinship in Sri Lanka and Thailand. Glowing art works with motifs from Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Denmark, depict a number of experiences among colourful people in different stories of everydays life style and temperaments. Special subjects since 1988: Human Animal in paintings and drawings with the combination of human being and animal, referring to coming possibilities in the future of genetic engineering. Ideas and inspiration comes from a personal interest in experiments and new ways of thinking by results in science and research, today and tomorrow. Oil paintings and drawings, in realistic style, are reflecting portrait examples of transgenetic manipulation with human beings and animals. Probably a hypothetical, imaginary development of today, but a foreseeable realistic possibility of tomorrow