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Marc GonzFoam Thai2023
2023
$3,800.60
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DKK 24,380.49
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About the Item
Most of Marc Gonz's recent works are portraits or fragments of human faces: we recognize the shape, see ears, noses and lips of figures that look like young men. What is striking about all these works is that behind each of these layers of colored paint we can repeatedly discover a human eye as a kind of underlying, central point. It is the only part of the canvas that seems to have been spared from the aggressive splashes of color. It is as if the person portrayed is looking at us from this virgin place, from underneath the various layers. It is a human eye, buried by the overdose of paint. The person portrayed seems to hide behind a bizarre colorful burden of a mask. The works seem unwilling to reveal their true soul.
The artist sometimes describes his works as "winks of foam”. By a "wink" we mean a blink, the rapid opening and closing of an eye, to greet the viewer and give him a sense of complicity.
It is as if from behind each work someone is looking at us, seeming to want to answer our curiosity, yet observing us from behind its protective colorful camouflage.
Marc's works are clearly portraits of people we identify as anonymous, adolescent or younger men. Sometimes he betrays their origins ("Thai eye"/"Candy man"). They often look a bit like clowns with cone-shaped Pierrot hats on their heads. They seem innocent and friendly freaks that emerge from the artist's imagination. The shape of their heads and their entire faces are covered in color, as if a giant, colorful birthday cake was thrown in their faces. The excessive amount of paint does indeed resemble a colored cake and reminds us of the famous Laurel
Hardy movie "The battle of the Century" in which more than 3,000 whipped cream cakes were used in an epic cake fight. The figure of the comedian and the clown is a melancholic personnage: at the same time victim of accidents and reason for our laughter. They are tragicomic beings whose lives are made up of laughter and tears. We find the same kind of personnages with the filmmaker David Lynch : the main characters of "The elephant Man" and "Eraserhead" are the same kind of melodramatic and strange peronnages.
Indeed, the contours of their monstrous appearance can be somewhat compared to the faces of Marc staring at us.
- Creator:Marc Gonz (1973, Spanish)
- Creation Year:2023
- Dimensions:Height: 23.63 in (60 cm)Width: 23.63 in (60 cm)Depth: 5.91 in (15 cm)
- More Editions Sizes:60x60Price: $4,751
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- Gallery Location:BARCELONA, ES
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1988214149442
DEGREE IN FINE ARTS. University of Barcelona Exhibitions: UXVAL GOCHEZ GALLERY.Barcelona SAATCHI LONDON GALLERY. London FOLD GALLERY. London FERRAN CANO GALLERY. Barcelona NUNOSACRAMENTO GALLERY. Portugal ATELIER RICHELIEU. Paris PALAU OF MUSIC. Valencia. PALAU OF THE VIRREIN. Barcelona ESPAI JAUME MUXART. Barcelona AFFORDABLE ART FAIR. Amsterdam. CLOISTER OF THE ROYAL MONASTERY. Barcelona
Awards: ACCESSIT. PLASTIC ARTS CONTEST. Valencia X COMPETITION OF UNED. Madrid BIENNIAL OF THE MOSTRA D'ART CONTEMPORANI CATALÀ.
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