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URINOIRS ( Urinals) Edition of 1 Installation

Denis Defrancesco

France

Installation, Paint on Canvas

Size: 94.7 W x 90.6 H x 5.1 D in

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Urinals, … Ladies, please look away… Unless you want to discover one of men’s secrets… One of those that plunge them into deep distress. … An arrow on the wall, self-evident… As though it was simply a matter of following the trajectory and gaining a bit of height. Not a single tree around and no “throne” in sight. A dead-end street… The Urinal… Always the same story… The same nightmare each time you feel the urge to pee… Panic at the edge of the porcelain, a “behind closed doors” drama deep inside the bowl… … Past the entrance, cautious and silent… A “western-style” glance round the place, suspicious, and wary… The ominous creek of a swing door… The sinister spitting of a flush… The light, too dirty, too raw… A bizarre reflection above a basin… Everywhere, the tiles oozing danger… A perfect crime scene for an English writer. … “Hell is other people,” Sartre might have said, stepping out of a “pissoir”… Each man in his stall, facing the wall, trying to look unconcerned… The Urinal: too high, or too low... A head sticking above… A slanted look… Doubt, suspicion… A bead of sweat dripping on the ceramic… Micturition Impossible. … Time passing… Interminably… Above all: do not let anything show… Do not lose face as you face the wall. At all costs, avoid sudden moves! Forget the killer behind your back, the sneering Manneken Pis in the neighbouring stall and the panda urinating upside-down. Just stop thinking. Let go without letting go… … “Everything comes to those who can wait.” Rabelais taken at his word, and here comes relief at the bottom of the pit... That godsent squirt… The little shake before the drop … That myth… Actually, never the very last one… … Urinal, how I hate you! Vespasian, I shall piss on your grave.

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Multi-paneled Installation:Paint on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:94.7 W x 90.6 H x 5.1 D in

Number of Panels:2

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French artist born in 1954, He lives and works between Prague (Czech Republic), Budapest (Hungary) and Aix-en-Provence (France).▪️A Multifaceted Artist Self-taught, atypical, and iconoclastic, Denis Defrancesco uses a whole range of techniques and materials to give form to his ideas, fantasies, and anxieties. A great ape in bronze, a giant plexiglass rabbit, a blow-up doll made of marble, a plastic Obama, a steel machine for slicing memories, a urinal in oil paint... He keeps giving the world his own twist, transfiguring reality to tell us stories: a childhood fear, a teenage memory, a passionate love affair, time fleeting, the body declining, death lurking. It is pop, electric, often bold, and always free. His work, both carnal and scientific, blends bronze with marble, paint with plexiglass, steel with plastic. He likes nothing more than mixing genres and spurning styles. Denis Defrancesco is an exalted introvert, an exhibitionist full of modesty, who creates an eclectic, surprising, insolent, and personal body of work with his monumental sculptures, 3-D paintings, and metamorphosized idols. A text accompanies each of his sculptures and paintings, like the key to a specific story. ▪️Private gallery in Aix en Provence (France)

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