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Obama and the Ants. Edition of 1. Installation
France
Installation, Latex on Canvas
Size: 56.5 W x 77.6 H x 1.6 D in
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OBAMA and The Ants. ... The long march of the ants... An army of shadows... Black and White columns crossing paths, skirting each other and merging to form a single goal: the black-and-white portrait of a black-and-white man. ... Contrasts... The concurrence of colours, the unity of dualities... Obama or the incarnation of Martin Luther King’s Dream... The Promise of a New World... ... A lament in the night... The culmination of centuries of prayers... A mixed-race Messiah, the improbable lovechild of a Kenyan Luo and a white woman from Kansas... A double K… Their roots entangled in his genes... The races reconciled in his veins... The miraculous story of a not-Black-nor-White man become the face of an America on the verge of transfiguration... ... The Audacity of Hope... His chant... The prayer of millions of invisible individuals... The swarming of the hopes of all the forgotten and all the slaves... The revenge of all the downtrodden creatures of Humanity... ... Obama, King of Ants... A star-spangled aura... A unique radiance... A spiritual and singular philosopher-president... … Micro-MacrObama… Up close or from afar… Not the same perception, not the same reality… A game of illusions… The artist is not fooled, but remains admirative… ... A portrait in black and white like the trace of millions of ants... The imprint of a black-and-white man, whose eternal legacy will be all that he elicited : the fierce hope for infinite possibilities...
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Installation:Latex on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:56.5 W x 77.6 H x 1.6 D in
Frame:Black
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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French artist born in 1954, He lives and works between Prague (Czech Republic), Budapest (Hungary) and Aix-en-Provence (France).▪️A Multifaceted Artist Self-taught, atypical, and iconoclastic, Denis Defrancesco uses a whole range of techniques and materials to give form to his ideas, fantasies, and anxieties. A great ape in bronze, a giant plexiglass rabbit, a blow-up doll made of marble, a plastic Obama, a steel machine for slicing memories, a urinal in oil paint... He keeps giving the world his own twist, transfiguring reality to tell us stories: a childhood fear, a teenage memory, a passionate love affair, time fleeting, the body declining, death lurking. It is pop, electric, often bold, and always free. His work, both carnal and scientific, blends bronze with marble, paint with plexiglass, steel with plastic. He likes nothing more than mixing genres and spurning styles. Denis Defrancesco is an exalted introvert, an exhibitionist full of modesty, who creates an eclectic, surprising, insolent, and personal body of work with his monumental sculptures, 3-D paintings, and metamorphosized idols. A text accompanies each of his sculptures and paintings, like the key to a specific story. ▪️Private gallery in Aix en Provence (France)
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