Invasion of San Francisco – Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange) - January 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
A female figure in a silver spacesuit walks down a steep San Francisco street, frozen between two eras. In the background, a vintage car with retro lines, a Victorian house, and a gnarled tree resembling a movie set complete the scene.
In Invasion San Francisco , Mr. Strange orchestrates a temporal and aesthetic shock. The image evokes both 1950s science fiction and a form of nostalgia tinged with absurdity. The alien seems to make a banal stop in the heart of a residential neighborhood, creating a shifting effect that is as strange as it is captivating.
The work subtly questions our relationship to reality, to collective narratives, and to the place of strangeness in everyday life. Combining humor, pop culture, and surrealist elegance, this invasion is not hostile: it is stylized, ironic, and profoundly human.
