Dancing Elephants perform Twin Towers

Last week I was exhibiting in RE gallery during  "REvolution" show. It's  was a Maximalist art experience concept created by James Churchill combining art food (by Chef Bonelli and Loic Serot) , sound installation (by Cedric Maridet ) all inside a circus tent with a real hay on the floor and paintings on the wall (7 different artists from around the Globe). You was able to forget that it's Wyndham Street in Hong Kong and concentrate on the Maximal experience of the show. More about the event is coming soon - for now I will share the concept behind my artwork  - a big composition of just 2 elements that has 3 meter hight yet but can be as hight as your budget allow. 

Dancing Elephants perform Twin TowersPaint on board, each Tower 66 x 297 cm or higherCircus is a place where the boundary of show is pushed to its extreme in order to bring excitements and memorable experiences. However when every event surpasses the previous one, the audience is proposed a flow of intense emotions that fades away when the new event comes. The spectacles need by then to become bigger and bigger. It’s a sort of Guy Debord’s “society of spectacle” where the spectator is devoted to the consumption of spectacles as ultimate and only way of living.One of the circus shows is dancing elephants. Attracting the attention because of their huge bodies, they perform perilous and unnatural hand standing on ball or imitate human dancing. Their individualism is taken away - they become similar to industrial products in the way of Andy Warhol’s “Campbell Soups”.There is finally a third ax for this work - the tower. Making vague reference to Katarzyna Kozyra’s “Animal tower”, Babylon tower and New York Twin Towers, the work is reflecting a play from the old days; back then kids were stacking wooden boxes to make the tallest tower possible. The game ended up with the collapse of the tower the goal and “la raison d’etre” for this construction.“Dancing Elephants perform Twin Towers” is constructed on this metaphors: global spectacle, degeneration of natural order, instability with a supposed final crush in an auto-referential world of twin towers. Being a composition of 2 elements - “blue ball” and “ dancing elephant”, the painting is leaving the height indefinite with a possibility to extend it in accordance to the growing appetite of the global financial spectacle.