REVOLUTION

1958 - 1978

The floral theme barely outlined in the Sezession artwork is unleashed in Revolution.
The combination of different historical and aesthetic cycles creates unexpected analogies.
Arabesque lines are back after half a century.

The colorful Flower-Power theme of the Sixties has Oriental, spiritual, psychedelic, lysergic, even chemical influences.
The pure and simple joie de vivre at the turn of the previous century is no more.

A final break and the macabre monochromatism of the war and the post-war years is also no more.
The man in the grey flannel suit is swept away by the era which "invented youth culture".
Even submarines become peaceful, yellow, shiny: "So we sailed up to the sun/ Till we found a sea of green/ And we lived beneath the waves/ In our yellow submarine..."

A way to erase the memory of the Nazi U-boats, defeated by the cryptanalysis of the Enigma code.
After film, architecture and regime propaganda, the muse coming into play in this artwork is pop music.

The Beatles travel to India and make the East fashionable outside the usual esoteric elites and Sanskrit scholars: A youth without youth, to quote the novella by anthropologist Mircea Eliade as well as Francis Ford Coppola.

The only black allowed around '68 comes from the Black Panthers and Black Power movement, here represented by Malcom X's clenched fist.

This artwork is a psychedelic kaleidoscope of indelible memories: Lee Oswald shooting Kennedy, Jurij Gagarin, the Lavalamp landing on the moon...

Technique:
silver leaf, transparent colors on glass windows, sparkle and metallic colors, metal flakes.