ELMER ROSLIN

Errobosconia Paintings by Elmer Roslin | Surreal Art

a crowded surreal painting depicting a strip club scene, full of humans turning into monsters fueled by their carnal desires, an artwork by elmer roslin
a surrealist painting that captures the haunting reality of climate change and its human toll, using a flooded subdivision as its stage. a painting by elmer roslin
Filipino artist Elmer Roslin sets out to create a monumental painting, inspired by Da Vinci’s The Last Supper.

ErroBosConia

ErroBosConia paintings offer a vivid exploration of the human condition, set against surreal, dystopian landscapes. Elmer Roslin’s tormented figures—adrift, exposed, and restless—mirror the anxiety and alienation of modern life.

In this body of work, Roslin departs from his earlier realist tendencies and ventures into psychological terrain. His use of distorted anatomy, fragmented space, and shifting perspectives evokes both dream and disquiet. Figures appear caught in liminal states—half human, half apparition—wandering through vast, unrecognizable worlds.

At the heart of ErroBosConia lies a moral and emotional unease. These are not scenes of destruction for spectacle’s sake; rather, they depict inner wars — the quiet erosion of meaning in an age of noise and excess. Symbols recur: staircases leading nowhere, fractured walls, hovering bodies suspended between despair and revelation. Roslin renders his figures neither heroes nor victims but witnesses to their own undoing. Through them, he exposes the vulnerability beneath the veneer of progress.

The series can also be read as an allegory of contemporary existence—a reflection of collective disconnection and our search for truth in a fractured world. Despite its darkness, ErroBosConia is not entirely without hope. There is beauty in the ruins, light seeping through the cracks, and a persistent longing for transcendence that gives the work its emotional gravity.

Though at times visually overwhelming, the series is deeply introspective. Roslin challenges viewers to reflect on their own purpose, identity, and longing for connection. His work resonates as both personal and universal, merging imagination with existential truth.

A surreal painting by Filipino contemporary artist Elmer Roslin, inspired by Marc Chagall, showing human figures suspended between floating and falling over a dreamlike landscape.
Filipino artist Elmer Roslin's piece for the Alay 27, the year-end group exhibition at the Boston Art Gallery 2024
A surreal painting depicting a chaotic compound filled with people swimming in a pool, drinking, celebrating, and engaging in a fighting arena, while a giant jester figure looms above, observing the entire scene.
A surreal painting depicting a figure with a hole in his body, revealing a seated nude female figure. The main figure holds a paper in his right hand and a coffee cup in his left, with a smaller figure inside the cup. At his back, another small figure peers through a spyglass.
A surreal painting depicting a disfigured female figure in a red dress seated by a table, about to drink coffee in a café-like setting.
A surreal painting by Filipino artist Elmer Roslin depicting a figure with a hole in his body seated on a pawn chess piece against a landscape background.
A surreal painting depicting a seated figure with a hole in his back, from which a smaller figure emerges, sitting atop a beer bottle containing an imprisoned female figure, set against a landscape background.
A surreal painting depicting a head with a hole on its forehead, containing a smaller nude female figure inside. The head floats on the sea, surrounded by smaller figures swimming and floating around it.
Elmer Roslin's surreal painting depicting a figure with crossed hands, possibly waiting or thinking, while a head emerges from his back, set against a landscape with smoke rising on the horizon.
Elmer Roslin painting of a figure with a mouth on its midsection, tongue extended outward, with a smaller figure seated, against a cloudy skyline background.
A surreal painting by Filipino painter Elmer Roslin depicting a figure with a wide mouth, a monster-like tongue pointing toward a mountain shaped like a woman's pointed breasts, rendered in a golden-green-brown palette.
A surreal painting depicting a half-bodied figure with a hole in his back, from which a smaller nude figure emerges, set in a sea where several smaller figures are floating and swimming around.

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