Don't be serious! – Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange) - February 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 this powerful and unsettling image, Mr. Strange unites two opposing figures of authority and representation: the policeman and the clown. The contrast is striking—the seriousness of the regulation suit collides with the grotesque mask of a farce character. The uniform says, "I represent order," while the painted face screams, "Nothing is under control."
Don't Be Serious! is a visual manifesto on power, the social mask, and the ambiguities of authority. Who is behind the order? The work plays on our cultural reflexes and raises a satirical reflection on trust, fear, and institutionalized ridicule.
The fixed gaze and fixed smile evoke discomfort, a tragic theater beneath a comic exterior. True to his style, Mr. Strange questions our perception of the world through absurd, brilliantly executed scenes that reveal a profoundly contemporary malaise.
