Bronze Sculpture for Sale
Banana Republic #76, 2023
Print : Screen Print · 55 x 50 x 0.1 cm 21.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€175
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Print : numbered and limited to 5 copies
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Artwork sold in perfect condition, not framed
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55 x 50 x 0.1 cm 21.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Description
This work pushes to its extreme the logic of the monkey becoming a commodity of its own making.
The background juxtaposes two figures. On one side, the primate covered in gold, the embodiment of social status reduced to visible accumulation. On the other, the jungle monkeys, a caricatured reminder of an origin that is preferred to be relegated to folklore rather than questioned.
In the center, the figure seems to have fully internalized this hierarchy. Its body is almost absent. Its identity is reduced to a few outward signs: a cap, glasses, jewelry embedded even in its mouth. Even speech is replaced by the brilliance of the stones.
The work suggests that the contemporary ideal is no longer to be, or even to possess, but to be seen as possessing. Wealth is no longer a means; it becomes the language itself.
The contrast with the background is essential. Behind the artificial sophistication remains a raw representation of the animal. The more the figure tries to distance itself from this origin, the more it seems to resemble it. Adornment becomes a second cage.
As is often the case in this series, the critique is not of luxury itself, but of the reduction of existence to exchangeable markers of value. The individual disappears behind the signs they accumulate. All that remains is a walking shop window, displaying its price while believing it is displaying its uniqueness.
This work is probably one of the darkest in the series.
The background juxtaposes three symbols: money (Monkey Money), a pink skull, and an admission ticket (Admit One). Together, they form a simple equation: paying to witness one's own disappearance. The consumer no longer buys an object, an experience, or a status; they buy their own seat in the spectacle of decline.
The central figure expresses neither joy nor success. It grimaces. Its face is tense, strained, almost painful. Yet, in the reflection of its glasses, two mushroom clouds explode simultaneously. Catastrophe has become a fascinating spectacle. The gaze doesn't flee from the collapse; it contemplates it with a kind of morbid enjoyment.
The work thus reverses the traditional relationship to fear. The apocalypse is no longer a risk to be avoided. It becomes a cultural product. Films, crises, wars, economic collapses, climate disasters: everything is absorbed by the same logic of emotional consumption.
The character is not an actor in the disaster. He is its addicted spectator. He wears the anonymous uniform of the connected world, the one who observes each crisis through a screen while continuing to consume the stream that feeds it.
The pink skull further reinforces this idea. Even death has become aesthetic, stylish, Instagrammable. The disappearance of reality is accompanied by its graphic embellishment.
The work depicts a civilization that no longer believes in its future but continues to view its own combustion as premium entertainment. Behind the monkey's grimace then emerges a more disturbing question: if everything becomes spectacle, what remains when reality finally arrives?
Presentation
Karl Kox (1990) is a Franco-Belgian artist, from a family of intellectuals.
A self-confident dunce with a chaotic educational background, he leaves the family fold quite early to “See the World"
After several artistic collaborations and training as a graphic designer, he decided to strike out on his own.
Passionate about digital art, he has devoted himself to his career as an artist since 2022.
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