abcdefuck – Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange) - February 2024
🔹 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
With abcdefuck , Mr. Strange directly attacks linguistic conventions and the illusions of cultural neutrality. Against a rhythmic backdrop of bright, retro-colored chromatic bands, the alphabet is abruptly interrupted by a provocative word. The work thus becomes a visual manifesto, a graphic gesture that subverts the innocence of the childish alphabet to inject it with a critical and emotional charge.
This deceptively naive typographical play reveals the artist's ironic and incisive tone: behind the graphic smile hides a cry, a revolt against the established order, absurd conventions, and language censorship. In a single line, the artist combines pop aesthetics, dark humor, and gentle subversion.
By subverting the codes of education and visual communication, abcdefuck invites us to reflect on what we keep quiet about, what we transgress, and on the power of the word in our image-saturated societies.
