Sowa's Ark An Enchanted Bestiary Author:Michael Sowa Chronicle is proud to publish the exciting paintings of widely acclaimed German artist Michael Sowa. A miniature pig splashing in a bowl of soup; a duck leading a wheelbarrow down a country lane; a woman gently stroking her daughter's face with a rabbit: take a trip into Sowa's brilliant and darkly comic imagination, where a menagerie of... more » creatures adopt strange personae and pop up in the most unexpected places.
In the same realm as Chris Van Allsburg and Maurice Sendak, Sowa's paintings take on the other-worldly look of a whacked-out fairy tale—each work full of irony, a wry Brothers Grimm for grown-ups. These witty and satirical images - a cross between Magritte and The Far Side - are sure to attract a well-deserved and passionate following in the States.« less