Description

Marilyn Playboy is a work on wood by the contemporary artist Lasveguix , who blends the codes of Pop Art , street art and urban collage . The artist reinterprets the timeless icon Marilyn Monroe through a dense visual collage, inspired by the billboards of major cities.

At the center of the composition, Marilyn appears in an iconic, glamorous pose, clad in fishnet stockings and heels, seated with provocative elegance. The black-and-white image, directly inspired by the aesthetics of vintage magazines like Playboy , contrasts sharply with the colorful chaos that surrounds her.

The work is constructed from layers of torn posters, fragmented typography, and paint drips . The tears reveal different graphic layers—vibrant colors, raw textures, and fragments of advertising visuals—evoking urban walls weathered by time. This technique gives the piece a highly tactile and almost archaeological dimension, as if several cultural eras were being revealed simultaneously.

The wooden support reinforces this materiality and accentuates the relief effect of the collage. The splashes of paint, the flat areas of primary colors, and the fragments of words contribute to a deliberately raw and spontaneous aesthetic.

With Marilyn Playboy , Lasveguix plays with the collective fascination for popular icons. The artist subverts glamorous imagery to plunge it back into the visual energy of the street, creating a dialogue between pop culture, advertising, sensuality and urban art .

This work thus embodies a contemporary vision of the Marilyn myth: a figure that is simultaneously mythologized, fragmented and reinvented through the visual codes of the city.