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Studio Giftig

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Studio Giftig

Netherlands · 23.1K Instagram followers

Studio Giftig is Niels van Swaemen and Kaspar van Leek, painting together since 2007 and working full-time on murals since 2012. Their images arrive at building scale with cinematic light and unnervingly finished surfaces, but the realism never slips into stiffness. They shoot their own reference material, which helps explain the control. Even then, some of the illusion stays slightly mysterious.