Baroque

In the Baroque series, white peacocks drift through vast marble halls and abandoned palace interiors like ghosts of a vanished aristocracy. These birds—traditionally symbols of vanity, immortality, and divine beauty—navigate spaces that were built to project eternal power but now stand silent and empty.

The paintings combine meticulous architectural rendering with dreamlike atmosphere. Grand staircases, ornate balustrades, and soaring colonnades are depicted with archaeological precision, yet the presence of these solitary white birds transforms familiar spaces into sites of uncanny beauty. The peacocks become both inhabitants and inheritors of these monuments to human ambition.

Through this series, Fikl explores the relationship between natural grace and architectural grandeur, between the organic and the constructed. The overwhelming whiteness—of bird, of marble, of painted plaster—creates a tonal harmony that is both serene and melancholic, suggesting that true elegance may outlast the social systems that once claimed it.