Schtroumpfs tribute (Medium format), 2020

Annick Cuadrado  

Annick b. Cuadrado, a French artist born and working in Paris, introduces into his works of art the most famous products of our consumer life. She convinced the owners of the most famous brands and logos in the world with her original and creative approach to these brands. A difficult task when you know the legal means available to these owners to protect their brands. Annick b. Cuadrado likes to interpret and divert, with elegance, vigor and humor, the famous candies, soft drinks, washing powders. The image and memory of these products and brands is a real appeal to our taste buds: Coca-Cola, Hollywood chewing-gum, Tagada strawberries, Car en Sac, Marshmallows, Haribo Dragibus, Carambar, Malabar, Krema candies, Danone etc...

Acrylic paint on canvas or Plexiglas, paintings, collages or shapes: Annick b. Cuadrado rediscovers our weaknesses in large formats. The multiplication and repetition of the different themes interpreted by the artist (Vache qui Rit, Cachou Lajaunie, Coca-Cola), echo our childhood memories.

"I like the shelves of hypermarkets with all their cans, boxes and packaging of all kinds of colors and transparencies, which speak, better than words, to the memory of our childhood" says Annick b. Quadrado.

His pictorial approach, very playful and "rock and roll", smells of rolls and sticks of candy and licorice. It sounds like a Souchon song and recalls the best of pop-art, new realism, and narrative and figurative art.