saname (1980) - Selfie

"Selfie"

Original painting and collage by Saname on cotton canvas stretched on a frame with a crate-style American frame.
With frame 44 X 34

Gallery value: €800
The canvas is varnished and sold with a certificate of authenticity
Careful packing with insurance.
Result is more beautiful and appreciable in reality than in the photo, impact guaranteed!

This spray collage on canvas first strikes with its deliberate collision of temporalities. The fragments of classical paintings, torn from their solemn origin, are projected into a tumult of acidic colors, tags, words hurled like shards of voice. The gesture is frontal: it does not seek harmony but friction, the spark born from the clash between museum heritage and urban culture.

The layering of old faces with contemporary photographs creates a sort of visual palimpsest, where each era tries to reclaim the floor. The spray, for its part, acts as an agent of contamination: it penetrates, covers, underscores, sometimes profanes, but always to reactivate the gaze. The inscriptions — "LOL", "LOVE", "ICI", "L’ENVERS DU DÉCOR" — function as shifts in tone, intrusions of the present into the memory of the images.

What is at stake here is less provocation than a rewrite of the canon: the artist does not quote, he reappropriates. He transforms the canvas into a space of tension where the museum meets the street, where the sacred rubs against the trivial, where art history becomes living, malleable, almost insolent matter. The result is a dense, vibrant visual theatre that questions our way of looking at images and the narratives they carry.

The discreet artist Saname is on the rise !!!!