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"Sputnik [Viva La Vida]" Painting
France
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 13 W x 16.1 H x 0.5 D in
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"Sputnik" is part of the period of the spread of the COVID-19 virus and the resulting health consequences since the winter of 2019-2020 throughout the world. Here the artist depicts a cosmonaut floating in space and seemingly caught in a stylised spider web. There is also mention of the Russian vaccine called "SPUTNIK V" developed by the Gamaleya Institute. According to the same Institute, the name of the vaccine is a tribute to the first satellite launched by the USSR in 1957. Patrick Gourgouillat links the two events here: the conquest of space and, 63 years later, the development of a vaccine that could eradicate the pandemic on planet Earth. A pink-coloured syringe - an "egalitarian and multicultural" pink - faces a shrill label that seems to indicate a promotional offer on the famous product. There is irony in "Sputnik". The conquest of space, however noble and warlike it may be, becomes so derisory in the face of a terrifying little virus raging on the floors of the cows.
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Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:13 W x 16.1 H x 0.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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"Everything is important, everything is beautiful, everything is sad. Where do we start if we choose to tell life and make it a work of art? Michèle Mailhot My work is eclectic, both in its form and in the use of media. In general, I work in "series". I think that one of the ways of making things interesting is through diversity: the styles as well as the techniques are varied. It can be the animal world [The Animals], societal criticism [Human Behaviour], comic strip-like drawing [Mr Doggy], crazy images as if from a dream or nightmare [Short Stories], gentle melancholy [Sky Blue] or, based on my own experience, phantasmagorical worlds in a dazzling frenzy [Viva La Vida]. I am currently working on the latter series. These series are very different from each other. What interests me are the variations in energy that they imply for me. So I go from one thing to another like one goes through experiences. This is often what happens in art in general and in life in particular.
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