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The Old German Lady [Viva La Vida] Drawing
France
Drawing, Marker on Paper
Size: 11.8 W x 15.7 H x 0 D in
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About The Artwork
In the early 1990s, Patrick Gourgouillat moved to Apolda (Thuringia, Germany). "The Old German Lady" refers to an experience lived by the artist. By chance, he meets an old German lady in a park. She tells him about her life, marked by dramas from the history of Germany (Nazi regime, divided Germany, the fall of the Berlin Wall...). She explains to him that this park was once a cemetery in which her family members were buried. This work depicting an old lady on a swing in a garden remains pure and sober. But a link was needed to situate the "action". This link was the one that, in principle, unites a nation: culture in general and cinema in particular. Patrick Gourgouillat then wrote mythical German film titles on the work. A way to bring the grand History into the small one. To write these titles, the artist was inspired by the graphic design of a Nina Hagen record cover.
Details & Dimensions
Drawing:Marker on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:11.8 W x 15.7 H x 0 D in
Frame:Black
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Ships From:France.
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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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