A Rockhill Ping Pong Game III – Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange) – May 2025
🔹 Technique : Digital work
🔹 Print / Price:
• Hahnemühle paper (2 cm white border)
◦ 50 x 50 cm: €350 (Limited edition of 30 copies)
• Aludibond (without border)
◦ 60 x 60 cm: €450 (Limited edition of 10 copies)
◦ 80 x 80 cm: €650 (Limited edition of 5 copies)
🔹 Numbered and signed by hand
• On the front for prints on Hahnemühle paper
• On the back for works on Aludibond
🔹 Certificate of authenticity provided
In A Rockhill Ping Pong Game III , Mr. Strange orchestrates a scene that is disconcertingly simple on the surface, yet intensely subversive in its staging. A young woman, erect and impassive, stands in front of the ping-pong table, racket in hand, in a fixed, almost ritualistic posture. The deep green background contrasts sharply with the red glow of the racket and the minimalist pallor of her outfit, creating a striking visual contrast.
The model's frontal gaze, the absence of movement, the smooth light: everything contributes to an icy, almost surgical visual language that pushes the viewer to question. What is really going on here? A match? A simulacrum? An expectation? Beneath a careful, almost advertising-like aesthetic, the artist brings out the malaise of contemporary society, caught up in its own role-playing and absurd staging.
As is often the case with Mr Strange, the work lies on the border between reality and the strange, between pastiche and social criticism.
It offers a subtle reflection on appearance, normality, and the silent tension of our modern existences.
