About the artwork
Peter Anton's 2010 work hijacks the popular imagery of the famous heart-shaped candies with their sugary messages. The artist enlarges these iconic sweets into colorful wall sculptures, but replaces the romantic messages with crude, ironic or contradictory phrases: "LUV YA", "DROP DEAD", "FUCK YOU", "BE MINE", "GO 2 HELL"... By playing on this contrast between visual sweetness and verbal brutality, Anton questions the codes of love, language and mass consumption.
Expert opinion
The bright, pastel palette, combined with the instantly recognizable heart shape, initially catches the eye with its playful, kitsch appeal. But reading the inscriptions generates a grating effect of surprise, revealing the duality between seduction and rejection, tenderness and violence. True to his approach, Peter Anton uses the register of food and symbols of popular culture to explore human emotions, oscillating between humor, provocation and social criticism.
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