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The party is over Drawing
United States
Drawing, Graphite on Paper
Size: 59 W x 59 H x 2 D in
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“The party is over” is a large pencil and charcoal drawing on paper. This drawing is part of a series depicting foil balloons in different compositions to communicate messages or sensations. This particular one is unique since the heart-shaped balloon is partly deflated, representing what we don’t usually want to look at – the decay that inevitably awaits after the fun we’re enjoying in the moment . Scale is very important in my work, I am very drawn to large scale format because I believe that when an art piece is big enough it has the power to make you feel like you can jump into it; allowing for a different kind of intimacy in which every detail is visible. Big scale artwork also has the power to distort the perception of your own scale. I think that it is particularly relevant in our current society of immediacy and digitalization, where we often experience the world surrounding us through small smart phone screens, to stop and take the time to observe and really take in a piece of this size (and to devote the time to make it.) I believe in the beauty and power of common objects to communicate feelings from fun to sadness or loneliness. And I am fascinated by reflective materials, balloons, and transparencies. Specially balloons because they are very humble objects but they have a life of their own (not unlike us) in which they grow towards being more and more inflated very quickly and then begin a slow process of decay and deflation. Foil balloons are very reflective, so their appearance is also affected and modified by their surroundings, again, not unlike human beings. In my work I like taking everyday objects and editing them so they become something else, changing the perspective we have of them and giving us a chance to look at the beauty of the world surrounding us with fresh new eyes.
Details & Dimensions
Drawing:Graphite on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:59 W x 59 H x 2 D in
Frame:White
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Gemma Gené is an architect and visual artist from Barcelona, Spain, based in New York. She moved to the United States to earn a Master in Advanced Architectural Design at Columbia University. In 2014 immediately upon graduation she joined Steven Holl Architects until she focused on developing her studio work and architecture projects. She previously obtained a degree in architecture at La Salle University in Barcelona, Spain, and expanded her education in Architecture and Fine Art at Escola da Cidade, São Paulo, Brazil and University of California Berkeley. She has maintained an independent career as an award-winning painter and published illustrator. Her two-dimensional work tries to provoke today’s architecture using color and textures to communicate sensations. She relies on urban art as a way to make her work accessible. Her three-dimensional work shares her architectural language and is a study of volume and geometry using stone, concrete and 3D print. Her work has been shown in New York at the Accessible Art Fair, the Greenpoint Gallery, the Allies Gallery and Fignet New York. She is best known for her online comic 157ofgemma where she narrates in an ironic fashion her life with her inseparable pug Mochi that has a very strong following on social media.
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