Oil painting
Thrill-Seekers
Original title: Les amateurs de sensations fortes
A couple on the beach: she is plated in metal and needles, he is hewn out of rock.
Her head comes to a point like a drop of water, her bra is made of dials and her legs are sheathed in steel. He wears a straw hat and a smile in profile, with a long wooden neck above a torso of red stones. The sky is a cracked pane of blue glass. People who live for strong sensations end up wearing them as armour.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 140 × 110 cm
- Year
- 2001
- 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.