![Painting, Memoir of loss X, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/40683_1_grid.jpg)
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Demiak is the pseudonym of Maarten Demmink. From his early to his most recent artworks, his art oscillates from heavenly to post-apocalyptic pictures or objects in different mediums: paintings, mural wood sculptures, mixed media and staged photographs.
Demiak works in series. In “Dreamland" (2002-2008), he paints with vivid details weightlessness landscapes - transposed in blue skies - that defy laws of nature. The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 inspired him docufiction photographs called “The Deepwater horizon".
In the “Big Blow" series, he depicts the aftermath of great climate imbalances, like the Lisbon earthquake in 1755, the great Mississippi Flood in 1927, the Hurricane Katrina in 2005… These flood paintings look like aged and damaged photographs. By the use of small-size formats to avoid sensationalism, Demiak offers a representation of devastated cities in a more intimate way. As if they were historical relics or memento mori on a global scale that suggest the hidden beauty in chaos.
Influenced by Old Masters like Piero della Francesca, Hieronymus Bosch and Leonardo da Vinci, he revisits the genres of landscape and historical painting in the light of contemporary concerns about environmentalism. Demiak's powerful vedute offer a fascinating reflection about the excess of nature and industry.
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![Painting, Memoir of loss X, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/40683_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Hollandale, Mississippi 1927, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206133_1_grid.jpg)
Hollandale, Mississippi 1927
Maarten Demmink
Painting - 24 x 33 x 1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 13 x 0.4 inch
$1,121
![Painting, Memoirs of loss VI, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/544096_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Escapism II, Tunis, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/589803_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Abéché, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1599555_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Urban tissue IX, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1986663_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ask the Dust IV, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1926957_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Book of Sand X, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1765476_1_grid.jpg)
The Book of Sand X
Maarten Demmink
Painting - 30 x 34 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 13.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,457
![Painting, Urban Tissue IV, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1612002_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Book of Sand IV, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1612026_1_grid.jpg)
The Book of Sand IV
Maarten Demmink
Painting - 40 x 32 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 12.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,626
![Painting, Ask the Dust V, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1611954_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Escapism XIV, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/174118_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Memoirs of loss V, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/73726_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Escapism VIII, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2159830_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Memoirs of loss II, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1588446_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Punjab, Pakistan 2010, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/809424_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Hadramaut, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1599609_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mayahi, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1599618_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Kolontar, Hungary 2010, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1466088_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Escapism VII, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1325085_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Memoirs of loss XIII, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1202499_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Memoirs of loss IX, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/784008_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Blanton, Mississippi 1927, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/693147_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Lisbon, Portugal 1755, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/20987_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Grand Isle, Louisiana 1965, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/20986_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Zeeland, The Netherlands 1953, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/20983_1_grid.jpg)
Zeeland, The Netherlands 1953
Maarten Demmink
Painting - 16 x 25 x 1 cm Painting - 6.3 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
$897
![Painting, Columbia River 1948, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/20984_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Escapism I, Hrabove, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/887637_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The book of sand II, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2129638_1_grid.jpg)
The book of sand II
Maarten Demmink
Painting - 61 x 44 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 17.3 x 1.2 inch
$2,354
![Painting, Mao, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1624242_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Urban Tissue VII, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1611981_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Korgom, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1611978_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Labyrinths of Clay III, Maarten Demmink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1611951_1_grid.jpg)
Labyrinths of Clay III
Maarten Demmink
Painting - 31 x 42 x 3 cm Painting - 12.2 x 16.5 x 1.2 inch
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