Bronze Sculpture for Sale
Bigger Better More Absorbent, 2017
Painting : aerosol paint · 50 x 50 cm 19.7 x 19.7 inch
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About the artwork
Type
Painting : Unique artwork
Condition
Artwork sold in perfect condition, not framed
Authenticity
Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the artist
Invoice from the gallery
Signature
Hand-signed by artist
Technique & Support
aerosol paint on canvas
Dimensions ( cm • inch )
50 x 50 cm 19.7 x 19.7 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Vetted seller since 2018
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Description
Gum (born 1976) is a rising artist on the French Street Art scene. From Paris to Brussels via Lyon, Biarritz, Brussels, Geneva and of course Montpellier, his adopted city, Gum has around thirty exhibitions to his credit. Winner of the Biennale of Young European Designers in Naples in 2005, he also had the opportunity to collaborate with Philippe Starck for a furniture collection or to exhibit alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat in Geneva. Plastic is the central point of his artistic approach and the common thread of his favorite themes: advertising, consumption and overconsumption, sex ... Through his paintings, Gum redefines the prefabricated codes of a dying society . "Titanic syndrome", as he calls it, is denounced very lightly through his works: "We continue to polish the chandeliers of the boat which is sinking, we are attracted by all that is" Bling Bling », All that glitters, which is inflatable, which flies away, while the bombs fall on our face! ". ? The absurdity of the “disposable” and the pre-chewed and pre-cut everything pushes this artist with Peter Pan syndrome to draw for children and to address adults. These 2 worlds merge so much that it becomes anxiety-provoking. “Young people want to get old and old people want to get young. There are sweets that look like drugs, and the drugs seem like sweets ”- Gum talks about the loss of bearings, where no one finds his place, in a society of sterilized, indigestible overconsumption, where the stupidity of general consciousness makes us amorphous. His art is his way of describing and denouncing a world where "nothing is right". Torn between man and child, the 42-year-old artist evolves in this bipolarity and as his only resistance to this world he does not understand is to refuse to grow up: his hymn becomes "Fuck Growing Up!" ".
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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