{"title":"Manzur Kargar","description":"Born in Kabul\/Afghanistan I moved to Germany at the age of five, and grew up in West Berlin. I studied painting at the HBK in Braunschweig and at the UdK in Berlin. Since 1992, Berlin has been my home and my studio, interrupted by longer stays in Los Angeles and New York.\n\nI began with what magnetically drew me as a young painter: antiquity. Hellenistic sculpture, myth, grand narrative gestures. Over time, my gaze shifted, because today’s gods no longer hang in temples. They smile at us from magazine covers, billboards, and screens. This is the imagery that fascinates me: seductive, flawless, always a little too perfect. I lift these figures out of their original context, place them in new, sometimes unsettling scenes, and paint them in hyperrealistic oil. The result feels familiar and disorienting at once.\n\nMy working method brings old and new together. Each piece begins as a digital collage and ends as a painting built up in many layers with the greatest care. I am drawn to the tens","products":[{"product_id":"fuck-yeah","title":"FUCK YEAH","description":"The artist merges Pop Art's aggressive commercial cropping with the meticulously layered oil technique of hyperrealism. An extreme close-up of glossy lips biting a golden bullet fuses overt signifiers of sensuality and violence, elevating contemporary advertising tropes to the status of modern myth. The sculptural volume of the face and framing metallic foil balloon letters contrasts sharply against a flat, graphic drip of blood, reflecting the work's origins as a digital collage. By isolating these seductive fragments in an unsettling new scene, the piece scrutinizes the powerful draw of splendid appearances in modern visual culture.","brand":"manzur kargar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67804962816109,"sku":null,"price":22000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2557\/5734\/files\/2026-10-20T1127-6-FUCK_YEAH.180x200.jpg?v=1792496119"},{"product_id":"holy-shit","title":"HOLY SHIT","description":"The artist merges Pop Art's aggressive commercial cropping with meticulous hyperrealism, isolating an extreme close-up of golden lips and luminous skin against a flat lavender ground. Framed by metallic balloon letters spelling out a profane exclamation, the pristine face is suddenly disrupted by a thick, high-gloss splash of bright pink liquid erupting from the right edge. Rooted in a process that translates digital collage into deeply layered oil paint, this collision of flawless advertising tropes with violent graphic distortion scrutinizes the powerful draw of splendid appearances in modern media.","brand":"manzur kargar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67804962947181,"sku":null,"price":22000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2557\/5734\/files\/2026-10-20T1132-8-HOLY_SHIT.180x200.jpg?v=1792496132"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.see.me\/collections\/manzur_kargar-1792495898881.oembed","provider":"SeeMe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}