Hall V – Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange) - October 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
In a cold, bare space with no apparent exit, two naked bodies lie curled up, frozen in a posture of withdrawal, shame or despair. In the background, a The black cat watches them, a silent witness to a scene both absurd and poignant. The white, almost clinical walls are more oppressive than they are open.
Hall V is a metaphorical composition about human vulnerability, modern solitude, and existential confinement. The human seems emptied of substance, while the animal—often a bearer of mystery or intuition—remains enigmatic.
A deeply disturbing painting, reminiscent of Hopper's theatrical compositions and Bacon's heavy silences, while retaining the artist's surrealist and ironic signature.
