About the artwork
Genieve Figgis's creations are distinguished by a dramatic intensity reminiscent of the spirit of Irish-English literature - from the darkness of Poe to the verve of Oscar Wilde - while evoking the dark inspirations of old masters such as Goya. In his canvases, bourgeois houses, traditional portraits and landscapes are adorned with spectral presences and luminous figures wearing high hats and armed with walking sticks. This fusion of seemingly banal realism with a dreamlike dimension lends his work a resolutely macabre charm.
Expert opinion
With Marie Antoinette's Cakes, Genieve Figgis hijacks aristocratic imagery with irony and irreverence, transforming refinement into a melting masquerade where the grotesque reveals the fragility of power and appearances.
About the artist
Genieve Figgis, born in Dublin in 1972, is an Irish painter whose singular style blends dark humor, decadence and strangeness. A graduate of the National College of Art and Design, she came to prominence on Instagram in the 2010s, where her work attracted the attention of painter Richard Prince. Her paintings, often done in very diluted acrylics, seem to melt or drip, hijacking the codes of 18th-century aristocratic painting. She revisits court scenes, portraits and elegant dinners with a grotesque, macabre touch. Her world, at once theatrical and spectral, explores vanity, luxury and appearances with a highly contemporary sense of derision. Figgis now exhibits in major galleries in New York, London and Tokyo.
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