Barbapapa, Mexico
Artist:
Audrey Nervi
Date:
2002
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Materials:
Oil paint, Canvas
Collection:
Lafayette anticipations - Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin
Domain:
Peinture
Among the countless photographic souvenirs she brought back from her trip to Mexico, Audrey Nervi wanted to render on canvas a shared moment that she captured during a party. In an almost cinematographic scene, the artist has depicted a common “moment of life” with an aesthetic close to photoreportage. In the light of a makeshift streetlight, the ghostly silhouettes of several characters stand out against the darkness of the night. Painted from life, they bustle around two large pink cotton candies partially wrapped around wooden sticks. The cottony appearance of the confectionery in the centre merges with the blurred rendering and the soft texture of the canvas, giving them the appearance of an oddity, an indescribable, deformed mass. Through its pictorial staging, this scene takes on meaning against a background of political and social reality: in addition to evoking consumer society, it is undoubtedly the image of a world on the road to perdition that Audrey Nervi wanted to represent.
Text written by Elea Dargelos as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Text written by Elea Dargelos as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibition
Antidote 2
La Galerie des Galeries, Paris (France)
from 27 Oct to 09 Dec 2006
La Galerie des Galeries, Paris (France)
from 27 Oct to 09 Dec 2006