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AkaCorleone

Peter Pan Complex

2018

Assembly of 3 tinted and perforated plexiglass sheets

100 × 100 cm

Unique

Location: Lisbonne, Portugal

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4,000 € 4000.0 EUR 4,000 €

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About the artwork

The plexiglass block reveals three layers of colored sheets: yellow, blue and red. It uses primary colors and thus brings simplicity to the reading of pigments. In contrast, AkaCorleone works on the complexity of his work through the visual superimposition of laser-cut shapes. Although the viewer can read "Peter Pan Complex" on the top red layer, it is difficult to assimilate all the leaves into a single object. The second layer reveals the shapes of well-known characters from the popular animated universe: Dragon Ball Z, Futurama and The Simpsons. While the third and final layer, whose faint yellow highlights the superimposition of the cut-outs, provides a circuit of veins similar to hard materials such as marble. The artist takes the viewer on a journey to the world of childhood, to the land of Peter Pan, the very embodiment of the famous Peter Pan syndrome or Peter Pan Complex. It would seem that the artist is expressing his own condition, that of Pop culture, and his difficult entry into the adult world.

Expert opinion

As well as being a compendium of emblematic references from popular culture, this work embodies a subject that is common to the whole of humanity: the theme of childhood and its break with the adult world. Here, AkaCorleone uses a technique essential to his work, that of superimposing layers of colored Plexiglas, specific to his artistic line.

About the artist

Born in Lisbon in 1985, Pedro Campiche, aka AkaCorleone, studied graphic design at the IADE-Creative University and began his artistic career in the 2000s as a graffiti artist. In 2008, he began working on murals, and two years later, he exhibited his first works in galleries. From 2010 onwards, AkaCorleone defined an aesthetic for his work, which he continues to embody today. A multidisciplinary artist, street-artist AkaCorleone experiments with supports such as wood, cement, stone and tiles, as well as bas-relief and laser-cutting techniques. He loves color and builds his art around a desire for expression, taking it as a means of understanding and humanizing the environment. In 2012, the artist had his first solo exhibition in Switzerland. From the following year, he participated in festivals and exported his work around the world (Thailand, India, Romania, Spain, USA...). Today, he has more than 20 exhibitions to his name, including at the Underdogs gallery in Lisbon, Mathgoth in Paris in 2020, and at the Lisbon Natural History Museum in 2021.

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