Dance on the Roof II – Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange) – July 2023
🔹 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
Suspended between sky and city, a man prepares to dance on the edge of the void. Dance on the Roof II is a powerful work in which gesture, captured with choreographic precision, becomes a symbol of freedom, audacity, and inner tension.
In a striking monochrome, Mr. Strange contrasts the architectural density of the city with the lightness of the human body. New York, frozen under a heavy sky, becomes the silent theater of this almost unreal scene, where we don't know if the protagonist is soaring, rising, or simply defying the established order.
The work evokes the solitude of large cities, the urgency of expression, and the strange beauty of risk-taking. The verticality of the frame reinforces the emotional vertigo felt by the viewer, while highlighting the grace of movement frozen in the moment.
With Dance on the Roof II , Mr Strange signs a visual manifesto, mixing irony of fate and urban poetry. It is an ode to those who dare the fragile balance between fall and flight, marginality and creation.
