About the artwork
Using an effective and colorful visual language, Joan Cornellà comments on human life and its shadows through an absurd and unseemly scenario. As with the rest of his work, he employs satire, cynicism and surrealism in this work, not hesitating to go beyond convention. This series of childlike, textless images evokes both the style of 1950s advertising and airline brochures.
Expert opinion
To show that you can laugh at anything, this work with its smiling characters skilfully combines horror and the ridiculous.
About the artist
Born in Barcelona in 1981, Joan Cornellà is a Spanish cartoonist and illustrator. With a degree in Arts, he is famous for his textless, disturbing, darkly humorous comic strips and sarcastic works of art. He treats all subjects of life and human nature without limits of propriety or reasonableness. His effective style, with its bright, cheerful color palette, features smiling characters in increasingly burlesque or appalling situations. Successful on social networks, her work is also present in the international art scene: after Shanghai, Bangkok, New York and London, Joan Cornellà has also exhibited at the Arts Factory gallery in Paris, and her pieces are sold by major auction houses such as Sotheby's.
“I think we all laugh at misery. We have to start from the idea that when we laugh, we're laughing at someone or something. With or without empathy, there's always an element of cruelty. Even so, I'm aware that if one of my cartoons happened in real life, I wouldn't laugh at all.”
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