PAINTING
ROBERT RICOV
 
DETAILS
Giclée print on canvas
(1/9) Limited edition
Hand-signed by the artist
45 x 61 cm
2021
 
DESCRIPTION
Robert Ricov describes Seduced by the Sweetest of Seducers as a scene set in Tickles, an underground absinthe bar glowing in dim green light. The painting captures the subtle choreography of desire: T-Bird Tiffany, one of several women employed to enchant and entertain, moves with practiced grace among the patrons.
 
Across from her sits a man the women call Timothy Teal, distinguished by his green attire and his quiet, repeated return to the bar. Ricov emphasizes that the work is less about a single interaction than about the atmosphere of secrecy, illusion, and longing, where attraction, fantasy, and performance blend, and desire itself becomes the true subject of the scene.
 
BIOGRAPHY
Robert Ricov b. 1973 Sydney, Australia BA 1994, College of Visual Arts, Sydney. Robert Ricov has been living, working, and exhibiting in Croatia since he moved there in 2022. His oil paintings, in a style he refers to as “surreal maximalist realism,” use symbolism to represent themes such as the loss of innocence, betrayal, and hope. In October of 2023, Robert traveled to the island of Menorca, Spain, where he was mentored by Guillermo Lorca and Martin Wittfooth. It wasn’t until a few months after that he realized how profoundly this experience affected the direction of his work. After Robert became finalist in the Toolip Art Contest in Budapest in 2024, he is represented exclusively by the Toolip Art Gallery.