saname (1980) - Boom

"Boom"

Original painting and collage by Saname on cotton canvas mounted on a stretcher with a frame in the American-style frame. With a 43 x 33 frame

Gallery value: €800
The canvas is varnished and sold with a certificate of authenticity
Carefully packaged with insurance.
Looking better and more appreciable in person than in the photo, impact guaranteed!

This spray collage on canvas asserts itself as a visual battlefield, where popular imagery, political slogans, advertising icons, and bursts of color clash in a single breath. Nothing is hierarchical: everything is placed on the same plane, as if the artist revealed the cacophony of the contemporary world by letting it explode on the surface.

The fragments of text — sometimes ironical, sometimes critical, sometimes absurd — act as mental hooks, interruptions that force the eye to zigzag. Campbell’s, the Nike logo, cartoon characters: as many symbols of consumerism and modern mythologies, here distorted, saturated, almost suffocated under the layers of spray. The graffiti gesture, vivid, nervous, comes to contaminate the whole, giving it a raw, almost urgent energy.

What is at stake, essentially, is a stripping bare of our visual landscapes. The artist does not merely juxtapose: he reveals the soft violence of advertising, the theatricality of politics, the nostalgia of cartoons, and has them dialogue in a controlled chaos. The canvas becomes a fragmented mirror of our era, a space where the trivial and the symbolic merge, where the eye must permit itself to get lost in order to better understand what surrounds it.

Discreet artist Saname is on the rise !!!!