Oil painting
Go Ahead…
Original title: Allez-y de…
A staircase built out of a face, and at the top a moon you would rather not look at too closely.
A nude, seen from behind, has one foot on the first step. Each riser carries a slice of a giant face: a closed eye, a nostril, a red mouth. On the pedestal above sits a sphere that is cratered like a moon and rounded like a bottom. Pale nudes drift round the edges like half-remembered dreams. The title leaves its sentence unfinished, and so does the painting.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 91 × 73 cm
- Year
- 2004
- Collection
- Oil painting
- Status
- Unique piece
About the series
Each canvas in this cycle starts from a title — an expression, a brand, a slogan — and treats it as a subject for classical painting. The result is a chronicle of contemporary public life, in which power, money and belief appear as characters.