Brisement de Cœur, Hommage à Jacques Monory - Limited Edition of 25 Print

‘Brisement de Cœur, Hommage à Jacques Monory’, Aluminum Dye Sublimation, 80 X 120 cm (32 X 48 inches), 2018 Jacques Monory was a friend and a French Pop Art artist, who expressed his concern about the daily reality of alienation and violence, through magnificent yet disturbing and intimidating works, largely applying on his palette blue color nuances. His painting 'Technicolor no. 13', depicts a rare contrast to Monory's prevailing theme - a handsome couple enjoys a relaxing dinner in a totally calm scene, painted in fuchsia and yellow, on top of the usual blue. The present work - ‘Brisement de Cœur, Hommage à Jacques Monory’ takes this pastoral scenery and, with the help of a bullet shot, makes it coexist in harmony with Monory's prevalent violence notion. Many of Monory’s works portray broken and smashed glass, as well as bullets, guns and rifles, which at times he himself used to shoot in order to stage the scene. Therefore, it was clear to me that I should turn the original painting into a smashed glass. Moreover, it was obvious that I should use a bullet shot, just like Monory himself would do. Monory’s style is characterized in part by his accuracy and fidelity to details. In my work I endeavored to be accurate and faithful to every detail as well - I made sure to break the glass as a real bullet shot would do, as well as to make glass shards of various sizes, as they would be created by a real bullet. In addition, I created a cloud of microscopic glass particles that trails the bullet, just like in reality. My artworks are usually about fantastic realities which are portrayed employing dazzling colors and razor-sharp details. These fantastic realities only happen within my mind and consequently in my computers, where they are conceived, designed, fashioned, textured, painted and finally photographed. It seems to me that the present artwork fairly represents my artistic practice, even though I have tried to preserve Monory’s own style, so that my additions blend with his original as smoothly as possible.