African Tales III – Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange) - January 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 African Tales III , Mr. Strange pays homage to the elegance, tenderness, and power of African female identities. Two women, magnified in a mirrored pose, embody the beauty of love and sisterhood, in a scene imbued with gentleness and strength. Their skin glows, their eyes meet, and their mouths brush against each other, suspended in a vibrant intimacy.
The plant-filled backdrop, teeming with brightly colored flowers, evokes an inner garden, a symbolic paradise where nature becomes the setting for their connection. The floral prints of their dresses blend into the environment, abolishing the boundaries between the body and the world, between personal history and ancestral narratives.
Sensitive and poetic, this work speaks of heritage, sensuality, and resilience. It invites us to rewrite African tales in a contemporary, inclusive, and profoundly human light.
Through his digital and surrealist gaze, Mr Strange creates an icon that is both gentle and powerful, celebrating unity and diversity.
