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Entering a world of daydreams

Brooklyn-based artist Tony Toscani makes paintings for everybody who has ever spent a Friday evening getting ready to go out, sat down on their sofa to scroll for a minute through Instagram, and looked up again three hours later to find that the sun has gone down and the party’s almost over – before giving up on the idea altogether in favour of just going to bed instead. His vivid figurative paintings – which depict young, beautiful people sunk in a soporific stupor, seemingly induced by the sheer much-ness of contemporary life – are as recognisable as they are jarring. They are of us, we viewers quickly realise, and our friends and peers; we are the subject of this aesthetic study, and we didn’t even know we were participating in it.
It’s a subject that seems to capture a universal contemporary condition. “I remember in college while I was painting all through the night,” the artist tells AnOther. “I was listening to Venus In Furs by the Velvet Underground on my radio when I heard the line, ‘I am tired, I am weary, I could sleep for a thousand years…’ I felt as though that line summed up what it was like to feel all the weight of the world’s weariness on one’s shoulders. We work more hours, we rely more on technology and we tend to play less.”
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