Darth Depressed III – Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange) - September 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
Sitting on a bench in a turquoise-tiled station, between three empty chairs and an indifferent black cat, Darth Vader bows his head in despair. Far from the epic, galactic universe in which we've always known him, Darth Depressed III propels him into a quirky, almost melancholic everyday scene.
Here, Mr. Strange reveals the other side of the myth: the loneliness of the antihero, the emptiness behind the mask. The scene, both absurd and profoundly human, evokes the expectation, discouragement, and even moral exhaustion of an ordinarily omnipotent character. The contrast between the fantastical imagery and the banal setting creates a poetic and ironic shock effect.
The black animal, a possible symbolic double or simple witness, adds to the strangeness of the scene without disrupting its visual balance. The work invites us to reconsider our authority figures through the prism of vulnerability.
With this piece, Mr Strange pushes his exploration of everyday surrealism further: where the imaginary becomes a mirror of reality, and where even icons fall.
