Urban Joconde
- Wawapod
Description
At the heart of this abundant composition, the Mona Lisa stands out, revisited with the contemporary audacity characteristic of Wawapod . Reinterpreted as a constellation of white dots on a black background, it floats in the center of the canvas like a pixelated apparition, both recognizable and abstract. Its gaze, enigmatic as always, slips into the visual tumult orchestrated by Lasveguix , whose colorful and saturated collages evoke the raw energy of the city walls.
Around the Mona Lisa, fragments of popular culture collide: a little girl blowing a bubble of gum, female icons from vintage magazines, typography ripped from the street, hip-hop figures, and fragments of comics. This carefully composed urban chaos powerfully highlights the serenity of the central face.
The sticker “ Hello, my name is Amour Toujours, ” Wawapod’s leitmotif, punctuates the work like a declaration of tenderness addressed to Leonardo da Vinci’s icon—and, through her, to the entire history of art. Here, the Mona Lisa is no longer frozen in a museum: she lives, breathes, and evolves in a world of color, noise, and contradictory messages. She becomes a figure of gentle resistance in our image-saturated era.
- Techniques:
- Dimension (H x W x D) : x x
- Work on stretcher : Yes
€1.450,00