Red ball sur papier, 2024
Painting : aerosol paint · 53 x 53 x 0.1 cm 20.9 x 20.9 x 0 inch
£523
523 £GB
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Painting : Unique artwork
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Description
The aesthetic of street art meets here with the imagination of comic books. The spray, the artist's favored tool, shapes an inflatable volume that seems to emerge from the paper. A red balloon, reminiscent of an iconic mask, occupies the center of a millimeter-precise target.
The contrast is striking between the geometric rigor of the concentric circles and the organic flexibility of the central shape. This tension emphasizes a subtle critique of mass consumption and superficiality.
The gaze, marked by a white tear, brings a melancholic dimension to this playful composition. This work plays on the balance between the innocence of inflatable objects and a subtle provocation.
The stencil technique ensures sharp precision, while the airbrush paint gradients create a striking effect of relief. The whole rests on a clean white background, accentuating the saturation of the red and the depth of the blacks.
The technical execution highlights a play of shadows, giving the illusion of a physical presence on the support. The signature and the date appear discreetly in the bottom right of the composition.
Presentation
Born in 1976, Gum is an emerging artist of the French street art scene. An inheritor of the street, he has been evolving along with his sole weapon: spray paint.
Acidulous, "bubble" and playful, plastic is the main focus of his artistic approach and the common thread of his favorite themes: advertisement, consumption, excessive consumption and sex. Just like our Earth is flooded with plastic and waste, his works are as well. While plastic is melting away due to global warning, the world is busy looking elsewhere.
Through the use of stencils, he breathes in life to his characters, with curves or a candy floss which he named Hello clito, Mr Masturbator or Foofoonette plastik, he portrays this in a brilliant manner combining provocativeness along with childish references and a porno-chic universe. He positions his work between innocent joys of childhood and a hate for prefabricated consumerism: a bi-faceted art.
His work has been exhibited several times in Montpellier, his adopted city, but also in Paris, Brussels, Munich, Berlin, Denmark, and Italy as he won during the Biennial of Naples.
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