Inventory # PCRE-11547-0001

PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Vancouver

Attila Lukacs is a graduate of the Emily Carr College of Art (formerly Vancouver School of Art), and in 1985 was part of the seminal "Young Romantics" exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery which launched his career alongside Derek Root, Graham Gillmore, Angela Grossman and Douglas Coupland.

After graduation Lukacs moved to Berlin in the fall of 1986. It was here where he created a body of work that would define his reputation and provoke intense critical debate: his skinhead paintings. “Angeli Co” (2006) revisits themes that defined his infamous skinhead series—power, masculinity, and vulnerability—within the context of modern warfare. The soldier emerging from rubble echoes the shaved heads and militarized bodies of Lukacs’ Berlin works, but the erotic provocation has given way to somber ambiguity. Where his earlier paintings fetishized authoritarian aesthetics, this piece critiques their consequences, setting a lone figure against a landscape of ruin.

The Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts (VSDAA) opened on October 1, 1925, marking the beginning of formalized art education in the city. Founded through the efforts of the British Columbia Society of Fine Arts, the school was a response to Vancouver’s rapid growth and the need for cultural institutions. Under its first director, Charles H. Scott, and with prominent faculty including Jock Macdonald and Fred Varley, the VSDAA quickly became a centre of artistic activity. A vibrant social and intellectual community grew around the school, supported by figures such as John Vanderpant and Harold Mortimer Lamb. In 1933 the school was renamed the Vancouver School of Art, and over the decades it continued to expand, eventually becoming Emily Carr University of Art + Design. In 2025 the institution celebrates its centenary, a testament to its enduring role in shaping the cultural landscape of Vancouver and beyond.

Please note: this work is unframed.

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