MEDSAN - Fuji DeLorean Time Flight (富士のデロリアン) - UNIQUE WORK

ONLY ONE LEFT IN THE WORLD - EDITION 1/1

With this square-format artwork, Medsan brings the DeLorean DMC-12 from Back to the Future into the most famous landscape of Japanese prints: Mount Fuji, as fixed by Hokusai in his Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. Robert Zemeckis’s time-traveling machine soars above the clouds, its butterfly doors raised, leaving behind a trail of orange fire that answers the volcano’s plume of smoke. A red cartouche bearing Japanese characters occupies the upper left corner, in the style of print titles, and the signature メドサン is placed at the bottom right.

The treatment is a watercolor and ink wash in sumi-e style, almost monochrome, built on a palette of indigo blues that directly evokes the Prussian blue of the 19th-century ukiyo-e. The clouds are outlined with a loose, swirling stroke typical of woodblock printing, while Fuji’s slopes play with the white of the paper for the eternal snows. In the foreground, the roofs of a wooden village treated in sepia brown and cut-out silhouettes anchor the scene in the Edo period, and the paper grain remains visible under the wash. Only the rocket exhaust trail, sparks, and the cartouche break the cool range with vermilion orange.

The mashup lies entirely in this collision of temporalities: a vehicle from 1985 designed to traverse eras literally appears in an image of pre-modern Japan. The sacred mountain, symbol of immutability, is confronted with the pop object that embodies the absolute opposite, the flight of time. The artwork humorously says that time travel has always been a matter of images, and that the print itself is a machine for bringing the past to us.

A piece that is both contemplative and joyfully anachronistic, ideal for adding a graphic and cinephile touch to an interior of a collector devoted to both Japanese art and pop culture.

Technical specifications:
Artist: Medsan
Reference: Back to the Future / DeLorean / Mount Fuji / ukiyo-e / Hokusai / watercolor sumi-e
Dimensions: 40 x 40 cm
Edition: Unique work — 1/1 (world’s only copy)
Year: 2026
Support: Giclée mounted on wooden stretcher (approx. 2 cm thick)
Signature: Yes, hand-signed
Condition: Excellent
Certificate: Certificate of authenticity (upon request)

About the Studio:
Atelier Joconde is a collective of artists around a living, plural contemporary creation. Established as a true artistic production space, the studio operates both in collective creation and in individual approaches, depending on projects and works. Atelier Joconde is also a family venture. Le Yack, a contemporary figurative painter, develops a narrative and introspective body of work with cinematic and realist influences. Alongside him, Medsan, oriented toward pop art painting, explores color, modern iconography, and the visual culture. Finally, Neo Pablo engages in a more instinctive search, blending abstract art, brut art, and figurative abstraction. Each work is conceived, produced, and followed within the studio, with a shared artistic standard and an identity unique to each artist.

Keywords:
Medsan, Atelier Joconde, Le Yack, Back to the Future, DeLorean, Mount Fuji, Ukiyo-e, Hokusai, Watercolor, Sumi-e, Indigo blue, Square format, Contemporary, Unique work, 1/1